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- Recruitment and Development of Online Adjunct Instructors
- Adjunct faculty is used heavily in the community college setting. Community colleges are market-sensitive, and strive to serve the community. With the advent of distance learning, community colleges now serve a global community. Distance learning managers will frequently recruit faculty from the institutional full time faculty pool. However, with recent...
- Tags: University Of West Georgia, Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Does the Semantic Web matter?
- My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...
- Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?Whitelist.With one home office and 100 branch offices, they all go through two different Squid proxy servers to hit the Internet. I have a file, named white by the way, that contain the URL's they are allowed to hit. It would be nice...
- Tags: INTERNET, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, whitelist, blacklist guy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension
- Zotero, a Firefox plug-in, looks like an amazing tool for academic and legal writing, what with "automatic citation capture" from webpages, formatted citation export and integration with WordPress. Developed by George Mason University, the tool has already been adopted by 100 major institutions. So who doesn't like it?...
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Thomson Corp., GMU, Productivity, Open Source, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Netbooks or notebooks?
- Netbooks or notebooks?Netbooks as Mac Thin client or PC thin clientWith the prolification of Netbooks and the dropping of prices, it's now possible and economical to use a Netbook to connect to a Mac OS X server or Windows Server running Windows softwarehttp://www.aquaconnect.net Mac server http://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm ( PC Server...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS, Tablets, Operating systems, Thin clients, Netbooks, notebook, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Powerset studies student use of Wikipedia... and faculty resistance
- Earlier this month, Microsoft-owned Semantic Web startup Powerset released figures from a small survey of student use of Wikipedia. As I explore here, the results certainly do suggest that Wikipedia is popular with the cohort surveyed in this study. The trick for Powerset, presumably, is to convert...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- The coolest bits of classroom tech I've ever seen
- The coolest bits of classroom tech I've ever seenThese are nifty.Just don't forget to add in the cost of buying and labor to replace batteries.ClickersI don't know about Turning's system, but the one we have (Interwrite PRS, eInstruction) has software which will allow you to collect answers for "impromptu" questions,...
- Tags: clicker, coolest bit, classroom tech
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-end
- Microsoft is preparing to move Office Live Workspace, the online storage/collaboration service adjunct to Office, from beta to final before the end of this year. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Google Inc., Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Collaboration, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Some serious research into gasoline-free transport
- There's an institute in Davis, California, dedicated to studying what works and what doesn't work when it comes to people moving around. Headed by Dr. Dan Sperling the faculty and research staff have delved into all manner of transit modes, energy sources, etc. They don't have Washington lobbyists...
- Tags: Vehicle, Plug-in, PHEV, Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Apple puts on back-to-school full court press
- Apple puts on back-to-school full court pressYaaa!More proliferation of the closed lip beast! Issues? What issues?RE: Apple puts on back-to-school full court pressDon't know where you get the idea that by giving out iPods..."universities can find some useful things for the devices, profs can't be that happy about...
- Tags: back-to-school, Apple Inc., iPODS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Green habits are learned young: Universities aggressive with recycling, energy-saving habits
- If you've got college-age kids who are getting back to class this weekend, you'll be thrilled to know that their dorms and professors will be picking up where you left up in terms of instilling green habits. A survey from the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals...
- Tags: School, Recycling, Telecommuting, Data Centers, Storage, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?
- Is Brown going to replace Harvard as America's premier medical school campus? Will Harvard and MIT faculty start fighting for visiting privileges there, in order to skirt the law and get more coffee mugs? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: industry, massachusetts, insurance, financial planning, strategy, business operations, corporate insurance, finance, management, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...
- Tags: anti-P2P, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Microsoft External Research release five new tools to students
- I was told about these last week and was held off until now; annoyingly after Channel 8 decided to post their own video, probably to get all the credit. Sometimes I think, why do I bother do this job? (Good income, great hours, travel and trips...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tool, Collaboration Environment, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Corporate Communications, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- More details emerge on the Microsoft Sphere
- On July 29 at its Faculty Research Summit, Microsoft is expected to allow attendees some hands-on time with the Microsoft Sphere. Thanks to one of Microsoft's partners, here's a little more information on what is behind the globe-like, multi-touch device. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Multi-touch, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs
- Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...
- Tags: Receptionist, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- How will Microsoft spend its multicore millions?
- In March, Microsoft's External Research Team put out a request for proposal RFP for three-year research projects in multicore computing. On July 28, the opening day of its annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft announced how and where it will be spending its grant money. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: RFP, Performance, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week
- During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Multi-touch, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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