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April 5, 2009DocXchanger
November 9, 2009Noticed a few other Colleges and Universities using this service…
Introducing DocXchanger™
DocXchanger allows users to easily discover and securely access their network storage from any location and provides powerful, interactive document sharing capabilities with this network storage. With DocXchanger, organizations can eliminate the costly practice of sending email attachments by sharing network-stored content through “sharing links.” DocXchanger through its identity-based architecture provides users the means of discovering defined network storage areas without the need for network drive mappings and login scripts. Network-stored documents can then be accessed securely for reading or writing. Finally, both files and folders can be shared with recipients both inside and outside of an organization, with access rights governed by policies defined by the administrator.
via DocXchanger.
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Posted by Teb Locke
AppleInsider | First-known iPhone worm ‘Rickrolls’ jailbroken Apple handsets
November 9, 2009The iPhone’s first worm — a playful, wallpaper-changing prank that only affects jailbroken phones — could be a sign of more dangerous things to come.
A hacker who identifies himself as “ikex” created the worm, which changes the user’s wallpaper to a picture of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, who sang the 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The software includes the message: “ikee is never gonna give you up.”
via AppleInsider | First-known iPhone worm ‘Rickrolls’ jailbroken Apple handsets.
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Freeconomics: Why $0.00 is the future of business
November 8, 2009In Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price, Wired magazine editor-in-chief and author Chris Anderson makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company’s survival.
Free for free.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Technologies to watch -2009 Horizon Report
November 8, 2009The technologies featured in the 2009 Horizon Report are placed along three adoption horizons that represent what the Advisory Board considers likely timeframes for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, research, or creative applications. The first adoption horizon assumes the likelihood of entry into the mainstream of institutions within the next year; the second, within two to three years; and the third, within four to five years.
- One Year or Less: Mobiles
- One Year or Less: Cloud Computing
- Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything
- Two to Three Years: The Personal Web
- Four to Five Years: Semantic-Aware Applications
- Four to Five Years: Smart Objects
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Americans Are Lonelier, but Don’t Blame the Internet, Report Says
November 6, 2009A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project - Social Isolation and New Technology - found that Americans’ friendship networks are shrinking — but not because people are retreating into online worlds.
[Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Steve Jobs: CEO of the Decade
November 6, 2009Steve Jobs revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression — and his own serious health problems.
Superlatives have attached themselves to Jobs since he was a young man. Now that he’s 54, merely listing his achievements is sufficient explanation of why he’s Fortune’s CEO of the Decade (though the superlatives continue). In the past 10 years alone he has radically and lucratively reordered three markets — music, movies, and mobile telephones — and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown.
[Source: FORTUNE]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Transitioning to Technology Based Instruction — Campus Technology
November 4, 2009When Mark Van Dyke, Ph.D., signed on with Marist College five years ago, he knew that online education would play an integral role in his new position. Conversant in basic computer applications, Van Dyke had used technology as a management tool, but never for teaching or learning.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Moodlerooms Unveils joule
November 4, 2009Moodlerooms, Inc., has announced joule™ an enterprise learning management platform with next-generation functionality, dedicated service, a growing partner program and the popular open-source LMS Moodle at its core. joule enables institutions and organizations to connect people, systems and data to make online learning more engaging and accountable.
joule is an affordable and adaptable solution that gives learning management customers the options they need to successfully boost their learning programs. With outcomes-based learning, enhanced reports and notifications, federated content management, batch course conversion, supported integrations, simplified administration and a customizable streamlined user interface, joule is the perfect fit for any institution or organization.
[Source: Moodlerooms]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
LMS 3.0
November 4, 2009In a thoughtful commentary published in Inside Higher Ed earlier this year, my friend and colleague Lev Gonick, vice president and CIO at Case Western Reserve University, proclaimed that “course management systems are dead; long live course management systems.” This was one of his eleven IT predictions for 2009.
At a time when the Course or Learning Management System (LMS) has become an embedded, if not indeed an essential, element of the college experience for students across all sectors of American higher education, Gonick’s proclamation seemed, at face value, contrarian. But Lev focused his assessment primarily on the fate of proprietary systems (read Angel, Blackboard, and Desire2Learn):
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Posted by Charles Wachira
Music Industry Changes Tune of New Program to Fight File Sharing
November 4, 2009On six campuses, the music industry is quietly experimenting with a service intended to lure students away from illegal downloads.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
