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- Making "hamburger of Microsoft's cash cow"
- Ars technica featured an article last week (Microsoft funds questionable study attacking open source in education") focusing on a European study of user satisfaction with, and adoption of open source software versus Microsoft products in educational systems. Not surprisingly, the Microsoft-funded study concluded that Microsoft products were not only...
- Tags: Open Source, Microsoft, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Japanese schools may convert aging computers to Linux
- A recent article in OhMyNews.com discusses the results of a conference in Tokyo at which educators recommended converting aging computers running Windows 98 and ME to Linux. About 400,000 such machines exist in Japans public schools and either cant run more up-to-date operating systems or the cost of upgrade...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- School's out (or almost out) ... time to go to work!
- In K-12, Education IT will soon have a couple of months off before planning for fall begins. Not so for colleges and universities. Overall better funding means that university IT departments often have some year-end money left over. If not, July 1 marks the beginning of a...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- Schools roll out remediation software for standardized tests
- Schools across the country are looking for the best ways to bring children up to speed on standardized testing materials. All too often, there simply isnt enough time in class to address remediation needs for students who perform poorly. Given that the stakes on these tests are so...
- Tags: K-12, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Congressman: Ed software study shows administration bias
- A commentary in Business Week by U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, a Democrat from Wisconsin, states that the nations schools are failing to prepare children to compete in the global economy. Kind was responding to a recent study which found that using software in schools has little or no effect...
- Tags: Policy, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Another hit on educational software
- Hard on the heels of a Education Department study that trashed the effectiveness of edcuational software, a new study finds similar results. The study conducted by the National Center for Educational Evaluation and Regional Assistance found that schools who used math software programs didnt increase or decrease test scores...
- Tags: K-12, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Don't expect Education IT to "fix" your school
- Is educational software worth anything? What a ridiculous title! If youve read my posts for any period of time, you remember my admonition: They’re tools, they’re just tools!, and heres the perfect example of a meaningless Department of Education Study which draws conclusions based upon unfounded assumptions. ...
- Tags: Standards, K-12, Funding, Classroom Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Leaving Education IT to clueless politicians
- Well, theyre at it again! The proposed new law is called "The Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007 (H.R. 1689)" and it would provide Department of Education funding for anti-piracy software. (See Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software.) Sound good? Well,...
- Tags: Texts &, Materials, Research, Networks, Libraries, IT Management, Higher Ed, Funding, Education Technology, Digital Media
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Is educational software worth anything?
- In a blow to companies that produce educational software, a new report found that students using educational software to improve performance show no significant improvement compared with those who dont use the software, reports the Washington Post The study issued by the U.S. Department of Education dresses down public...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- That student discount might just be fraudulent
- Microsoft has issued more than 50 cease and desist letters in an effort to shut down alleged international software smuggling operations, reports the Seattle Times. The letters were sent to companies that that claim to be "academic resellers" in order to obtain discounts on Windows XP and Office 2003....
- Tags: Microsoft, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software
- Attacking the issue of illegal downloading on all fronts, one Congressman is proposing legislation to give grants to schools to install anti-piracy programs, reports Internet News. Rep. Ric Keller of Florida introduced legislation recently which would allow schools to apply for federal grants to help purchase anti-piracy systems. The...
- Tags: Legal Issues, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Copyright infringement by your students is your problem
- I was not the least bit surprised last week when I read RIAA cracks down on downloading at 25 colleges. After all, institutions are routinely notified whenever resources residing in their domain are associated with disruptive activity outside of that domain. For that reason, we take substantive measures...
- Tags: Standards, Legal Issues, Social networking, Higher Ed, Policy, IT Management, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Moodjammin' on the Web
- The Internet has just taken another small step into being able to peer into ones soul. Ph.D students at Carnegie Mellon have developed a software application that can show users emotions in words and in bands of color, reports Campus Technology. Moodjam is software that is a networked...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- MySpace experiments with video censoring software
- Bowing to pressure from media conglomerates and copyright holders to stop the posting of copyrighted material, MySpace has announced it will experiment with a new video-filtering system reports the Washington Post. MySpace is joining forces with software company Audible Magic Corp., which owns the rights to a system that...
- Tags: Education Technology, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Digital collaboration tools for teachers worldwide
- Collecting and disseminating information is often the province of developed countries, but Teachers Without Borders hopes to bridge the Digital Divide by allowing educators worldwide to share information and teaching materials, reports All American Patriots. The organization will offer a software suite, TWB Tools, which covers a lot...
- Tags: Education Technology, DigitalDivide, Social networking, Mednick
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- UT seeks millions for classroom tech
- Utah legislators went shopping last week in order to spend money on boosting the states ranking when it comes to access to technology in the classroom, reports the Deseret News. Senate and House education subcommittees met at Audio Enhancement in Bluffdale, UT, to hear presentations from half a...
- Tags: Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- ISP offers students cash for open source code
- As an incentive to get students to push the code boundaries of open source software, a British software network is offering cash for fresh code, reports Welsh IT News Online. The UK Free Software Network UKFSN, a small Hertfordshire-based Internet service provider, concieved the idea to...
- Tags: Education Technology, Open Source, software, UKFSN
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Can you handle a classroom? Software aims to give you a dry run
- When one thinks of computer simulations its usually in a military sense, but increasingly these simulations are being used as training tools for another situation where embattled professionals have to deal with unpredictable behaviour—the classroom. eSchool News reports that computer simulations are proving to be a great tool for...
- Tags: Teaching, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Conflicting priorities
- My Christmas gift this year was supposed to be a big chunk of money to jumpstart lifecycle funding at our high school. I wasnt surprised when the initial number shrank by $10k, then another $10k. Obviously, there are lots of competing interests in a small, economically depressed town....
- Tags: curriculum, software
- Blog posts 2006-12-17
- Software to ID gender, age of online writer
- Gone are the innocent days of the Internet when one could identify oneself as a man, woman or dog and know that the other person couldnt really verify. A new technology claims to be able to profile a user just by how they write online. If it works, the development...
- Tags: Education Technology, Neal Krawetz
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
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