Web/Portals
- Student Faces Expulsion over Facebook Study Group
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3/19/2008
A chemical engineering student in Toronto faces expulsion from his school for running an online study group through Facebook. Chris Avenir, a first-year student at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, said he joined the social networking group in fall 2007 to get help with the homework in one of his chemistry classes. Eventually, he became the administrator for the network, which grew to include 146 students.
- Waiting for the Semantic Web
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3/19/2008
Yahoo is about to add semantic elements to search. For educators, evolution toward search based on meaning and not just a character-string is highly significant.
- IBM Expands Information Server, Sets Delivery Dates for Collaborative Software
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3/19/2008
IBM this month will release two new software updates focused on collaboration--Lotus Quickr 8.1 and Workplace Collaborative Learning 2.7. The company has also expanded its Information Server software platform with the introduction of IBM Information Server FastTrack, a new module for information integration projects.
- Flash, AIR Get Media Rights Management
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3/19/2008
Adobe today began shipping Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server, a $40,000 (per CPU) system designed to integrate with Adobe Media Player and Adobe AIR software to "safeguard video content created for Adobe Flash technology against misuse." It's targeted mainly toward broadcasters and other media-focused organizations.
- Vanderbilt Optimizes Web Site for iPhone
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3/17/2008
Vanderbilt University has released a version of its homepage designed for the Apple iPhone. The site was created by the Vanderbilt News Service's Office of Web Communications, which is working to optimize the university Web site for other mobile devices.
- CodeGear Releases 3rd Rail 1.1, Donates Ruby Debugger
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3/13/2008
CodeGear announced last week that it has released a new 1.1 version of 3rdRail, a Ruby on Rails integrated development environment that plugs into Eclipse.
- Oxford Scholarship Online Expands Reach through ebrary
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3/10/2008
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is making its digital collection of 3,000 Oxford titles available through ebrary, a California-based company that offers an online content management platform for libraries and publishers. OSO is a subscription service providing digital versions of books published through Oxford University Press, the publishing arm of the University of Oxford.
- U Texas Streams Athletic Events
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3/10/2008
The University of Texas has taken its Longhorns athletic events online to broaden the reach of its collegiate sporting programs to a much larger audience.
- Microsoft Creates IT Job Portal for Students
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3/7/2008
Microsoft has just put the finishing touches on its Students to Business (S2B) portal, an initiative aimed at pairing American college students working toward IT careers with companies who are looking to fill entry-level IT positions.
- MIX08 Kicks Off with First IE 8 and Silverlight 2 Betas
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3/6/2008
Microsoft Wednesday ushered in two highly anticipated betas for developers at its MIX08 conference in Las Vegas: the first public downloads of Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2. The company also released a slew of technology previews, including the Visual Studio 2008 tooling for Silverlight 2, Expression Studio 2 beta (which supports Silverlight 2) and an ASP.NET MVC Preview 2.
- Social Networking: The New Face of Recruiting
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3/6/2008
Social networking sites aren't just for fun. In what may be the future for college recruiting efforts, some 300,000 students now use a social networking site called Zinch specifically to network with colleges. On Zinch, prospective students can enter a personal profile that gives colleges in-depth information well beyond grades and test scores. From the other side, Zinch says that more than 450 colleges and universities are using Zinch as a high-powered recruiting tool.
- Micro Blogging with Twitter
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3/5/2008
Depending on your point of view, Twitter--an online social networking/micro-blogging service--is either a cool new way to connect with people or yet more online noise. But Twitter as an academic tool? In this interview, we talk with David Parry, Assistant Professor of Emerging Media at the University of Texas at Dallas, who recently blogged about using Twitter in class.
- Is Web 2.0 'Designed for Education?'
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3/5/2008
In Web 2.0, the proliferation of Web services that create spaces and sites for learning continues to grow and add value.
- Stoneware Integrates Virtual Desktop with iTunes U
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3/5/2008
Stoneware announced the integration of Apple's iTunes U with its virtualized Web desktop solution, WebOS. iTunes U allows colleges and universities a way to let students search, download and play education content just like they do music, movies, and TV shows. With the integration of iTunes U into the user's virtualized WebOS desktop, students can access applications, files, documents, educational podcasts and other content from a Web desktop that is accessible from anywhere.
- Web 2.0, Secondary Orality, and the Gutenberg Parenthesis
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3/5/2008
During the Gutenberg period, just ending, humanity valued printed works as the foundation of knowledge, and tended to believe knowledge is "owned" by an individual. We are just beginning to understand once again, with the Internet, that knowledge is communal.
- Microsoft Expands Office Live Workspace Beta Worldwide
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3/4/2008
After nearly three months of private beta testing involving about 100,000 users, Microsoft Office Live Workspace (OLW) is being rolled out worldwide as a full public beta. Previously, participants had to be qualified by Microsoft for the beta; now, as of today, it's open to all comers who wish to create workspaces. Coinciding with the public beta, Microsoft has also revved OLW with new features and enhancements and has kicked off a sweepstakes to build awareness for the service.
- Microsoft Takes SharePoint and Exchange Servers Online
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3/3/2008
Microsoft has announced a new step forward for one of its Software as a Service (SaaS) initiatives, Microsoft Online Services, with online betas of Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
- Old Dominion Launches YouTube Channel
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2/27/2008
Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA has expanded its educational outreach with the creation of an ODU YouTube channel. The channel hosts videos featuring various aspects of the university, including academics and faculty, campus life, distance learning, and athletics. Among the current videos featured are faculty spotlights, an ONFilm Festival promo, virtual tours of forthcoming athletic facilities, and a helicopter tour of the campus.
- The Future of Web 2.0
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2/27/2008
Web 2.0 is changing the landscape of higher education IT and the application of learning technologies. Washington State University's Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology Director Gary Brown explains why he thinks we're moving from collaborative learning environments (CLEs) and ePortfolios, to personal learning environments (PLEs) and worldware.
- Blogs and Streams From Sun's WWERC Annual Conference
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2/26/2008
This week in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems is bringing together thought leaders in education from more than 30 countries for its annual Worldwide Education and Research Conference, this year themed, "The Power of Communities." Conference organizers are maximizing the reach of the conference through live broadcasts and blogs...
- Canadian University Offers Students Ability To Highlight Lecture Videos
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2/26/2008
Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada has deployed an online video portal that lets students view, index, annotate, remix, search, and share class lectures. Although the school has been offering streaming video for three years, the new portal, run on the Gotuit platform, implements more interactive features.
- Adobe Releases AIR Runtime for the Desktop, Opens Flex
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2/25/2008
In a move that will let Web developers use their existing skills to build rich Internet applications for the desktop, smart clients and browsers, Adobe Systems Monday released the first version of its widely anticipated AIR cross-operating system runtime, along with updates to its Flex framework for Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
- Automated RBAC Java Security Tool Released
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2/22/2008
McLean, VA-based Advanced Modeling Concepts recently released a Java security tool designed to help developers add security to existing Java applications. The product adds role-based access control (RBAC) security via a tool called AfterthoughtSoft-Secure.
- Silverlight 2.0: The Wait Is Almost Over
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2/21/2008
The first public beta of Silverlight 2.0 is expected from Microsoft in the next few weeks. By all accounts, those that have seen the private beta report that the features outlined by the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, Scott Guthrie, in a November blog posting are pretty much on track.
- Cataloging the Fire Hose: Tagging
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2/20/2008
Web 1.0 allowed us to replace mental hyperlinks with digital hyperlinks. Now, Web 2.0 helps us tag knowledge objects on the fly as a kind of personalized -- and variable -- cataloging. As we look ahead, the semantic Web, or "Web 3.0," is emerging and semantic Web sites help us do the tagging.
