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Music ed goes Web 2.0

Although many public schools are gutting their music programs, music teachers and homeschoolers can take advantage of new software that utilizes Web 2.0 to assist with music lessons and collaboration online, reports eSchool News. Software companies are developing programs such as eJamming, WorkshopLive, and In the Chair that...

Tags: Distance Learning, Education Technology, WorkshopLive, eJamming, music

Blog posts 2006-11-27

Entrepreneurs see profits in UT virtual diploma

In what could be a potential untapped revenue stream for Utah high schools, two U.S. businessmen have made an offer to buy access to the states Electronic High School and market it internationally, reports the Salt Lake Tribune Anthony E. Meyer, chairman of Meyer and Co., a New York...

Tags: Education, Board

Blog posts 2006-11-08

Six Factors to Consider When Planning Online Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education

The Internet and the World Wide Web WWW have made the process of obtaining an education without regard to time or location easier for the student. At the same time, they have provided more challenges for the colleges providing this education. In online distance learning, not only does the instruction...

Tags: Education, Distance Learning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

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Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...

Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-10

"People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"

Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...

Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-09

H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment

H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatmentWell, Duh.....Anyone working in the tech field can provide many examples of this activity. The financial services company where I work is almost completely outsourced to Indian vendor company workers, over here on H-1B's. Additionally, many of us here have trained the very people...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Litigation, Outsourcing, H-1B, worker mistreatment, mistreatment, job, worker, fraud

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Tempest or Nuclear Winter

A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...

Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-09

WiMax - the technology, devices and momentum - finally arrives.

WiMax - the technology, devices and momentum - finally arrives.Great NewsI've been reading a of articles about wimax and the buzz is all the same...excitement. This is evidence enough for me that it's time to buy a new laptop :)No information?Coverage where? Fixed or Mobile? Reception distance?ANSWERS:Coverage...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

IBM: Beats earnings target but...

IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...

Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-09

A Maze Race (exe)

In this game you will control a green ball to compete against the red ball controlled by the computer to reach the flag in a maze. Your ball and the computer's ball will be of equal distance from the flag, you need to make good judgement about shortest path to...

Tags: Maze, Flag, Novel Games, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Learn Chinese Characters Volume 1A (zip)

Learn Chinese Characters LCC is a multimedia learning program which teaches you reading and writing Chinese characters. For each character entry, it gives the English definitions, Pinyin and Zhuyin annotations, cross reference of simplified / traditional character, radical, number of strokes excluding the radical, word examples and definitions. You can...

Tags: Character, GeorgeKung, Learn Chinese Characters, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Auction Decorator - Auction Editor Wizard (exe)

Create and publish professional looking auction listings for ebay and others without special knowledge or steep learning curve. Auction decorator is a full WYSIWYG application What You See Is What You Get that makes your auction listings look like Web pages. Create and save as many advertisements and presentations as...

Tags: Advertisement, Auction Decorator, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Teaching telecommuting

Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supplyWho cares?particle colliders and whatnot- how about: let's try living our own lives and find out something useful once they've RUN an experiment! It's difficult enough dealing with the paramount necessities and the trivialities of our own lives- why bother to focus on others'?There's...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, power supply, Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

StrategyExplorer (for Windows Mobile 5.0) (CAB)

StrategyExplorer is a tool for planning option spreads and stock hedging strategies. It plots intrinsic option values and profit profile vs. underlying stock price for any combination of a stock and up to three options drawn on that stock. Twenty popular strategies are predefined, including synthetics, straddles, strangles, butterflies, covered,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Stock, Arbitrage, Microsoft Windows, PocketNumerix, StrategyExplorer, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

StrategyExplorer (for Windows Mobile 6.0) (CAB)

StrategyExplorer is a tool for planning option spreads and stock hedging strategies. It plots intrinsic option values and profit profile vs. underlying stock price for any combination of a stock and up to three options drawn on that stock. Twenty popular strategies are predefined, including synthetics, straddles, strangles, butterflies, covered,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Stock, Arbitrage, Microsoft Windows, PocketNumerix, StrategyExplorer, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

StrategyExplorer (for Pocket PC 2002) (CAB)

StrategyExplorer is a tool for planning option spreads and stock hedging strategies. It plots intrinsic option values and profit profile vs. underlying stock price for any combination of a stock and up to three options drawn on that stock. Twenty popular strategies are predefined, including synthetics, straddles, strangles, butterflies, covered,...

Tags: Stock, Arbitrage, Pocket PC 2002, Pocket PC, PocketNumerix, StrategyExplorer, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

SpeakingPix (zip)

This software has 2000 printable flashcards in 65 categories each with a recorded voice or sound. The voice or sound plays when you click on an image. You can print the images 1,2,4,6 or 8 per pages. You can re-record the voices, include your own images and record a voice...

Tags: Voice, Image, ABA Materials, Telecommunications

Software downloads 2008-10-08

Dot Point Learning Systems Science Calculator (zip)

This is a useful calculator for science students. The system contains a scientific calculator that can calculate molecular mass, and from this main calculator various other calculators and tools can be called. These include an area and volume calculator, a molar mass calculator for common acids and bases, a measurement...

Tags: Converter, Dot Point Learning Systems, Internet, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-10-08

2009 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring

Photo gallery:Mazda CX-7 Grand TouringEarlier this year, we tested a Mazda's CX-9. So when we heard that we were getting a CX-7 Grand Touring in the CNET garage, we braced for more of the same, only smaller. The tiny Mazda crossover didn't disappoint; the CX-7 has a lot in common...

Tags: Mazda CX-7, Mazda Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-07