Let the iPhone be your guide at New Yorks Natural History museum

30 July 2010

If you’ve ever had to navigate through an expansive museum like the Louvre or the Air & Space Museum, you’ve probably experienced at least one moment of disorientation, intimidation, or downright frustration brought on by the sheer magnitude and labyrinthine layout of these enormous institutions. The American Museum of Natural History in New York wants to put an end that frustration, and it’s turning to the iPhone to help get the job done.

The museum’s AMNH Explorer app turns your iPhone and iPod touch into a virtual tour guide. The free app tracks your location in the museum and offers turn-by-turn directions to exhibits, bathrooms, cafes, and giftshops.

via Let the iPhone be your guide at New Yorks Natural History museum | Navigation | iPhone Central | Macworld.

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Posted by harryhaddon

Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom

29 July 2010

One expert on emerging learning technologies offers tips for helping faculty update their pedagogical methods and tools.

[Chronicle of Higher Education]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

Teaching Twitter in Business School

29 July 2010

More business schools, including the business schools at Columbia and Harvard Universities, are adding courses on social media to their MBA curricula.

[Source: Businessweek]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

Lo-Tech Cable Management

29 July 2010

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[Source: reddit]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

iLife ’11 coming soon?

28 July 2010

Apple’s iLife ’11 suite will launch in August, with all included applications being 64-bit, including a new “mystery” addition, a rumor suggests.

[Source: AppleInsider]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

Go Ahead, Jailbreak Your Smartphone

28 July 2010

The Library of Congress issues new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”

27 July 2010

Every three years, the Library of Congress has the thankless task of listening to people complain about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA forbade most attempts to bypass the digital locks on things like DVDs, music, and computer software, but it also gave the Library the ability to wave its magical copyright wand and make certain DRM cracks legal for three years at a time.

This time, the Library went (comparatively) nuts, allowing widespread bypassing of the CSS encryption on DVDs, declaring iPhone jailbreaking to be “fair use,” and letting consumers crack their legally purchased e-books in order to have them read aloud by computers.

via Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”.

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Posted by Teb Locke

Apple – Magic Trackpad – The Multi-Touch trackpad for your desktop.

27 July 2010

Why should notebooks have all the fun?

Desktop users, your time has come. The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen.

via Apple – Magic Trackpad – The Multi-Touch trackpad for your desktop..

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Posted by Teb Locke

The iPad goes to college this fall

27 July 2010

The iPad is about to have its academic chops put to the test this fall in a number of programs around the country.

Colleges and universities are looking to adopt the iPad as a collaborative tool, a standardized mobile device to integrate into curriculums, and, in some cases, even a cost-saving device.

Read more.

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Posted by Charles Wachira

Supporting Faculty in Adopting Emerging Learning Technologies

26 July 2010

A report emphasizes rising student expectations for technology in the classroom. Jerome Waldron, CIO at Salisbury University and the designer of a highly successful center for instructional design and delivery at his campus, offers tips for providing long-term and more personalized support for faculty (even on a minimal budget) in integrating emerging learning technologies into their classes.

[Source: Academic Impressions]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

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