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- Late night musings on student information systems
- We're moving rapidly into the last month before we go live on our new student information system. This migration has been a long time coming and is a welcome move from an antiquated and overly-complicated product. We searched pretty extensively and evaluated several options, both client-server and web-based,...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Student information services
- Blog posts 2007-06-17
- Google makes web more accessible for non-English speakers
- And for those who don't speak it natively...And for those who do but really want to access non-English websites.According to the Google Blog entry on the topic:"While machine translation is not perfect, it's usually good enough for you to obtain the gist of information in a language you might otherwise...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Google spyware? Fine by me...
- A reader of one of my last posts, "Google Presentations…one more step in the right direction", did not share my enthusiasm for Google Apps:"More Google spyware One more way for Google to build their database about you. Or, you could just use Google for search, and keep their database at...
- Tags: Education Technology, Web, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- MIT OpenCourseWare: 6 years later, bigger than ever
- By just about any measure, MITs OpenCourseWare Project is a success, reports the New York Times. Celebrating its sixth anniversary, the OpenCourseWare Projects goal is to put MITs course materials online, for free. The coursework is provided under a Creative Commons license which limits usage to noncommercial purposes...
- Tags: Web, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Law school deans bash site as racist, 'descpicable'
- After the fallout from a the Washington Post story on AutoAdmit - a no-holds-barred message board for law students that hopefully is not indicative of the quality of Americans future lawyers - two top law school deans have condemned some of its practices as being racist and homophobic, reports the...
- Tags: SECURITY, AutoAdmit, Yale University, attack
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Single signon portal makes sense for university
- When it comes to university web portals, the magic number is one. Give students and facultry only one options and you wont have to worry so much about lost passwords, unworkable navigation and needless replication of data, reports Campus Technology. The GoWMU web portal at Western Michigan University lets...
- Tags: Education Technology, IT Management, Web
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Cyber education site for teens and parents
- Missouri parents and educators have a new program in their arsenal to protect children from online predators, reports the Missouri News Tribune. The privately funded program called INOBTR, or "I Know Better," is a website for teens, parents and teachers that provides tips on how to protect kids and...
- Tags: Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Web
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Student information systems meet Web 2.0
- Although I have had few kind words for web-based student information systems in the past, recent previews of latest generation Web 2.0-style SIS apps have certainly given me reason to reconsider. I currently administer an implementation of Chancery SMS that was dumped in my lap a few years ago....
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, K-12, Student information services
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- The future of toys is the Web
- As younger children spend more time in front of the computer and less time playing with GI Joe and Barbie, toymakers are adapting their products to the changing market, reports the Associated Press Nowhere was this more prevalent than this years annual American International Toy Fair, where one could...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Teaching Google
- Google is many things to Ed Tech, not all of them completely positive. Sure, its a great search engine, although Google Images can provide students with a lot of naughty thumbnails, even if the source sites are blocked by your content filters. It is also most likely the...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- 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
- Students are online. Should elections be too?
- Would politicians take college students a bit more seriously if they voted? Some lawmakers in Washington state say that college students are so plugged into the Internet that voting should be done online, allowing everyone to have a better showing at the polls, reports Northwest Public Radio....
- Tags: Education Technology, Web
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Are advertisers using Web to skirt children's TV regulations?
- As new devices allow more children to have access to the Internet, the race is on for the attention and loyalty of its youngest consumers. That has ushered in new regulations by the Federal Communications Commission to curb advertising for Web sites that link to commercial content aimed at children...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12, FCC, regulation, advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- With Web conferencing, homebound students are keeping up
- Somewhere between video-conferencing and online schooling lies an emerging technology that is helping house-bound students interact with teachers, reports the Baltimore Sun. Web conferencing is allowing teachers to give students who cannot leave their homes an educational experience similar to what they might have in a classroom. Web-conferencing uses...
- Tags: Education Technology, Distance Learning, K-12, Web conferencing
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- GameBoy cartridge offers Web research without the Web
- Few parents ever thought that the ubiquitous GameBoy, that carrier of all things Pokemon and Super Mario, would offer any educational value. But now an official Nintendo publisher has come up with a cartridge that offers information rather than interactive cartoons, reports the Deseret UT News. Pocket...
- Tags: Education Technology, Students, Nintendo GameBoy, cartridge, KwikNotes
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Australian kids run wild web of humiliation and abuse
- Schoolyard teasing and gossip, was once restricted to the playground, has reached new heights in the digital world, reports Adelaide Advertiser, an Australian paper. Parents and police officials in Adelaide have uncovered a hornets nest of school children being "victimised, teased and mocked" on an Internet "spider...
- Tags: Web, Social networking, K-12, Cybersecurity, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- 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
- Web pages to plan for high school
- Theres no time like the present to start planning for the future. Thats just what Kentucky students can do now that they have access to a new web-based career site aimed at middle and high schoolers, reports eSchool news The new system called Individual Learning Plans lets...
- Tags: Web, Ive, high school
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Web or client-server, Part 1
- Student information systems continue to evolve, with many moving to a web-based interface for managing student, school, and district data. While this has obvious benefits, many vendors are choosing to maintain client-server or, more and more frequently, Windows Terminal Services/Citrix Presentation Server implementations. Many early systems relied on proprietary...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Course management software, Web browser, client-server
- Blog posts 2006-11-11
Additional Resources
- Educating IT decision makers
- When you tell a user decision maker that thing X will work better for some job than thing Y, are you an educator or an advocate? Think you know? try it with specifics: "Linux is better than Windows for web services." Education or advocacy? that is indeed the question...
- Tags: Information Technology, Linux, Professional Development, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Operating Systems, Software, Career, Enterprise Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
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