The new Kindle for PC application is now available for free download. Read over 360,000 Kindle books and get the best reading experience available for your PC – no Kindle required.
Get it now… (for Windows 7, Vista, and XP)
Kindle for PC Now Available
November 16, 2009
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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
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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New Blackboard Tool Connects With Google’s Free Services
November 2, 2009A new Blackboard tool lets campuses connect the company’s course-management system to Google’s free e-mail and document-sharing services.
The connecting tool, which was developed by Northwestern University, is now available to other campuses as a “Building Block” plug-in for Blackboard. It allows students to access Google Apps within the Blackboard platform, meaning they don’t have to sign into the two platforms separately.
Hundreds of colleges have signed up for Google’s free services and made the company’s Gmail service the official student e-mail program on their campuses. Google’s services include a series of online programs as well, including a word processor and a spreadsheet application, and some students are using them for their classwork.
For more information about the Google Apps Building Block, please visit
http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/bboogle/, and the new Blackboard
Extensions(TM) Web site at http://blackboard.com/Support/Extensions.aspx.
[Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education | Reuters]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Google Wave Use Cases: Education
October 29, 2009
Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. Wave creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen described it as making email “collaborative and instant.”
[Source: ReadWriteWeb]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Adobe and Barnes & Noble Join Forces to Standardize eBook Technology
October 27, 2009Adobe Systems Incorporated and Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world’s largest bookseller, announced further advancements for eBook distribution by joining forces to standardize the open EPUB and PDF eBook formats and collaborating on a content protection standard based on Adobe and Barnes & Noble technology. The collaboration makes Barnes & Noble the most portable and compatible eBookstore, and provides customers of nook, the new Barnes & Noble eBook reader and other compatible devices, as well as users of Barnes & Noble eReader software for iPhone, PCs, BlackBerry and other smartphones the ability to access digital content from thousands of content providers that is protected with Adobe technology. In addition, customers with devices that use the Adobe Reader Mobile software development kit will soon be able to purchase and read content from BN.com, the world’s largest eBookstore.
[Source: Adobe]
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A New Search Engine Specializing in Fun
October 26, 2009If you’re like me, you like to make the most out of what little free time you have. One way of finding ideas for activities without wasting precious minutes is by searching online. But sometimes the process of browsing the Web can suck you in and waste more time than it saves.
This week, I tested a tool called Goby (pronounced go-be), www.goby.com, which works as an activity search engine to help you find things to do. It tries to be simple enough so that you can get some ideas and start doing the things you want to do rather than wasting hours in front of the computer.
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Building apps in the cloud
October 26, 2009A simplified programming model and cloud-based run-time environment lets software developers build and run applications 5 times faster, at about ½ the cost of traditional software platforms. Salesforce.com says its development platform is quicker to build on than Java or .Net
[Source: IT World Canada]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Barnes & Noble Unveils E-Reader
October 20, 2009Barnes & Noble has introduced its own electronic book reader, called Nook. Includes the ability to read eBooks on multiple devices (iPhone™, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac). With LendMe™ technology, people can share favorite eBooks with friends, family, or book club. Most eBooks can be lent for up to 14 days at a time. Just choose the book you want to share, then send it to your friend’s reader, cell phone, or computer.
[Source: New York Times]
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Barnes & Noble Unveils E-Reader
October 20, 2009Barnes & Noble introduced its own electronic book reader, called Nook, on Tuesday (10.20.09). Includes the ability to read eBooks on multiple devices (iPhone™, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac). With LendMe™ technology, people can share favorite eBooks with friends, family, or book club. Most eBooks can be lent for up to 14 days at a time. Just choose the book you want to share, then send it to your friend’s reader, cell phone, or computer.
[Source: New York Times]
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