Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall.
What can we expect? Driver support will likely be a weak point. We’ve heard at various times that Google has a legion of engineers working on the not so glamorous task of building hardware drivers. And we’ve also heard conflicting rumors that Google is mostly relying on hardware manufacturers to create those drivers. Whatever the truth, and it’s likely in between, having a robust set of functioning drivers is extremely important to Chrome OS’s success. People will want to download this to whatever computer they use and have it just work.
Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week
13 November 2009
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Posted by Teb Locke
Blogger marks 10 year milestone
19 October 2009In an age when online dialogue lasts no more than 140 characters, some have pondered just how relevant the business of blogging remains.
Those running one of the world’s most popular blogging platforms argue that this very personal way to share, sound off and express oneself has a healthy future ahead if the numbers are any guide.
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Posted by Charles Wachira
EthicShare: A Model for Virtual Research Communities
14 October 2009Free and open collaborative resource draws scholars from across disciplines.
The proliferation of Web 2.0 social networking Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and even Flickr got some people thinking: Which scholarly disciplines need better ways of researching, collaborating, and communicating, and could a social networking model play a role?
“Bioethics and applied ethics scholars are very interdisciplinary in their work,” said Kate McCready, EthicShare project director at the University of Minnesota, “The departments that most bioethics and applied scholars studied in and received degrees from don’t have the same names as the departments where they now work. They came from philosophy, religious studies, medicine, public health, etc., but now work in ‘bioethics.’”
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Google Wave in Plain English
5 October 2009
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Posted by Teb Locke
M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
2 October 2009Dozens of colleges are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful admissions tool.
[Source: New York Times]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Flickr: Help: Galleries
22 September 2009For whatever you find interesting, fascinating, or mind-blowing on Flickr, galleries are a way to curate up to 18 public photos or videos of your fellow members into one place. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the creativity of your fellow members in a truly unique way around a theme, and idea or just because.
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Posted by Teb Locke
US Government Cloud Computing Initiative Promotes Social Media
21 September 2009Part of the US Government’s Cloud Computing Initiative promotes the use of free Web 2.0 social media applications hosted by third party provides.
If the Government can do it, so can we!
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Twitter in Higher Education: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty
28 August 2009To Tweet or not to Tweet, that is the question.
Results are in from the survey conducted by Faculty Focus on Twitter usage and trends among college faculty, and we’d like to first thank everyone who participated. The survey of approximately 2,000 higher education professionals found that nearly one-third (30.7 percent) of the respondents say they use Twitter in some capacity. More than half, (56.4 percent) say they’ve never used Twitter.
This new 20-page report provides a breakdown of the survey results by question, including comments provided by survey respondents. The comments further explain how they are using Twitter, why they stopped, or why they have no interest in using it at all.
Key findings of Twitter in Higher Education: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty include:
- 71.8 percent of current Twitterers expect their usage to increase this school year.
- 20.6 percent of current non-Twitter users say there is a “50/50 chance” they will use Twitter as a learning tool in the classroom in the next two years.
- 12.9 percent of respondents say they tried Twitter, but stopped using it because it took too much time, they did not find it valuable, or a combination of reasons.
[Source: Faculty Focus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
How Students, Professors, and Colleges Are, and Should Be, Using Social Media
26 August 2009S. Craig Watkins, an associate professor of radio, TV, and film at the University of Texas at Austin, talks about the new age of social networking and media, and what it means for the classroom of the future. His soon-to-be-published book, The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future, touches on those ideas.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Most Faculty Don’t Use Twitter, Study Reveals
26 August 2009Most faculty are not using Twitter, but about 5.1 percent use the microblogging service as part of instruction.
Despite the seemingly relentless barrage of hype surrounding Twitter, most faculty in higher education institutions are not using the microblogging service at all. In fact, according to a new study from Faculty Focus, most have never even tried it.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
