Leslie Whitaker, a guest blogger for Wired Campus, is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Previously she worked as a reporter for Time magazine. She reflects on what happened when her class blogged about the Fort Hood shootings.
Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing
November 20, 2009
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One Easy way to transfer files from Boot Camp to OS X – Mac OS X Hints
November 13, 2009I use Boot Camp on my Mac, and quite often I create files in Windows and want those files on the OS X side as well. It's a pain to take out a USB flash drive and copy the files there, reboot, and copy them again. If the files are large, emailing the files to yourself may not work either.
One solution is Dropbox. As Dropbox works on OS X, Windows, and Linux, all you have to do is install Dropbox on your Boot Camp Windows installation, then drop or save any files in theree; they will automatically transfer into OS X the next time you boot back into the Mac OS.
via One Easy way to transfer files from Boot Camp to OS X – Mac OS X Hints.
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DocXchanger
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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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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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
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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Negroponte: XO-1.75 goes ARM, XO-2 is canceled – OLPC News
November 4, 2009This morning I woke up to find an e-mail in my inbox which contained a link to an xeconomy.com interview with Nicholas Negroponte. While reading it over breakfast I managed to spill my tea because I couldn’t believe I was really seeing the words I was looking at. XO-2 development canceled? An XO-1.75 to replace it? Talk about an XO-3? Going from OLPC to olpc? But let’s take it step by step, shall we…
via Negroponte: XO-1.75 goes ARM, XO-2 is canceled – OLPC News.
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Use stylus instead of fingertip with iPhone & MacBook
November 3, 2009The soft tip of the Pogo Sketch stylus glides easily over the surface of your trackpad or display, making it fun and easy to sketch, draw characters, or just slide to unlock. Sized for comfort, it does away with inaccuracies common to fingertip-only use.
Wear gloves in the winter? With an iPhone, the stylus allows you to answer calls and surf the web all while keeping your hands toasty.
Turn your MacBook trackpad into a pen tablet for premium drawing programs! The new multi-touch trackpads allow the Pogo Sketch to control your favorite drawing programs like, say Scribbles. Any drawing program that accepts mouse input will work.
via Pogo Sketch.
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Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech — Campus Technology
November 3, 2009While students and faculty seem to agree on the importance of technology in education, the two groups do not agree on how well it’s being implemented. According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors “understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes.” Students also rated that lack of understanding as “the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration.”
[Source Campus Technology]
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Net Addresses to Make Use of Non-Latin Scripts
November 3, 2009SEOUL — By the middle of next year, Internet surfers will be allowed to use Web addresses written completely in Chinese, Arabic, Korean and other languages using non-Latin alphabets, the organization overseeing Internet domain names announced Friday in a decision that could make the Web more accessible.
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