Pope Benedict gave a qualified blessing to social networking Monday, praising its potential but warning that online friendships are no substitute for real human contact
[Source: New York Times]
Pope Weighs In on Social Networks
25 January 2011
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Apple’s iOS App Store surpasses 10 billion downloads
24 January 2011
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Can Twitter use help improve grades? Some researchers think so
21 January 2011Using Twitter for academic purposes leads to more student engagement and interaction with faculty, one study suggests.
[Source: eCampus News]
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Virtual Computing Labs
20 January 2011Colleges experimenting with “virtual computing labs” say the cloud-based hubs are cheaper and more flexible.
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Spotlight on Google Docs: Watch your videos anywhere
20 January 2011
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South Korean film director makes movie on iPhone
19 January 2011AP reports that acclaimed South Korean film director Park Chan-wook “is wielding a new cinematic tool: “the iPhone”to make a new 30-minute fantasy horror film called “Paranmanjang,” which opens in South Korean theaters on January 27. Park says that shooting the film with the iPhone was an advantage “because it is light and small and because anyone can use it” and that the ability to use multiple iPhone cameras for each scene allowed him to cover a wide variety of angles.
[Source: Associated Press via Google]
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Upgrade your Life: Simple solutions to high-tech problems
17 January 2011Can’t work your iPhone with your winter gloves on? Got a scratched DVD that’s skipping? Or how about a work PC that signs you out the moment you step away from your desk? The MacGyver-approved answer may be hiding in your junk drawer.
In this week’s episode of Upgrade Your Life, Yahoo! News’s Becky Worley delivers some simple, everyday solutions for what might appear to be daunting high-tech problems, starting with:
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As Wikipedia Turns 10, It Focuses on Ways to Improve Student Learning
17 January 2011The popular open encyclopedia moves to create a repository of teaching materials.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Academic Publisher Unveils Social-Networking Service for Social Sciences
13 January 2011A major academic publisher is pushing further into the social-networking business. Sage Publications today unveiled a Facebook-like site for social scientists, called socialsciencespace, with the goal of bringing together academics, agency officials, and policy makers through forums, blogs, and other user-generated content. Sage already runs similar sites for research methods, criminology, and media studies and communication.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Cambridge U. Press to Join the E-Book Distribution Race
13 January 2011The rush to market scholarly e-books keeps picking up speed. JSTOR, Project MUSE, Oxford U. Press and a consortium of mid-size university presses have all unveiled plans for e-book distribution platforms, hoping to provide scholarly publishers with better access to the library market. Now a fifth contender, Cambridge University Press, will soon announce that it too has struck agreements to distribute e-books for scholarly presses in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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