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- Information Systems
- The formal title for a data processing, MIS, or IS department. Other titles are Data Processing, Information Processing, Information Services, Management Information Systems, Management Information Services and Information Technology.
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- You brought them along, kicking and screaming ... now what?
- If you've been supporting faculty in a university IT setting for any time at all, you've found it necessary to drag some of them, kicking and screaming, into the information age while others have been on the leading edge (some would say 'bleeding edge') from the start, always challenging you and...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- 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
- 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
- State ed office, Senate clash over plan to outsource student data
- New budget negotiations in Utah are getting underway, and lawmakers are asking for a portion of the education budget go to private contractors to sort student data, reports the Deseret UT News. Under the proposal, $3 million of the education budget would go to implementation of a system...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Student information services
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- ND tries to fix troubled campus information system
- The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education has voted the increase spending to upgrade troubled software that connects North Dakotas college campuses, reports the Associated Press. After drawing complaints from users, the ConnectND software system is going to get a $9.5 million facelift, consisting of 11.5 new...
- Tags: Education Technology, IT Management, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Six trends for 2007 and the 21st century
- eSchoolNews editor Gregg Downey offers six prognostications for the coming year. #1. Web 2.0. YouTube is just the latest and most spectacular example of how the democratization of the internet is about to change everything. For education, it seems to me, the populism inherent in the internet...
- Tags: SCORM, Education Technology, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- U. Utah holds contest for best hacker
- It was about as fun as watching a chess tournament, but Utahs finest programmers from the University of Utahs nationally ranked School of Computing duked it out for cash prizes to see whose Internet database could handle 10,000 connections at once, reports the Salt Lake Tribune It...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, programmer, Internet Database
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- 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
- So about those thin clients...
- Im writing this post from my new and now somewhat infamous laptop. More importantly, Im connected to my LAN wirelessly under Linux. Whoo Hoo! After lots of fussing with ndiswrapper and SUSE this weekend, I pretty well hosed the networking portion of my SUSE install. I have...
- Tags: Terminal services, Microsoft Windows, Thin clients, Operating systems, Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Edubuntu, Ubuntu, Linux, Linux Terminal Server Project
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
Additional Resources
- 18 truths: The long fail of complexity
- Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...
- Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Live Webcast: LCC International on 3 reasons to consider Google Apps
- At LCC International, a 1,200 employee wireless engineering company, VP of IT, John Buckholz, has managed cc: Mail, IBM Notes/Domino and Microsoft Exchange systems in his career. But his most recent choice for messaging and collaboration is Google Apps. Why? LCC International saved 60% over bare-bones alternatives and he and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Webcast, Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2009-11-06
- Samsung HZ15W
- The Samsung HZ15W is a camera that looks good on paper but doesn't live up to the specs. The main attraction is the 24mm-equivalent wide-angle lens with 10x zoom, which is certainly a plus in a camera this size, giving you a lot of shooting flexibility for less than $280....
- Tags: Samsung HZ15W, camera, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2009-11-05
- Deep Whois for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile)
- With Deep Whois for iPhone you can search public whois databases for hostnames, domains, IP addresses, IP networks, and autonomous systems. Deep Whois for iPhone automatically selects whois servers and performs a lookup. When more information is available it follows deeper by continuing the lookup at referral whois servers. It...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Whois, Happymagenta Project
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document
- So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Calculator for Science Students 2.9 (Windows)
- This is a very useful calculator for students. The system is designed to quickly carry out calculations and find commonly used reference data. The system contains a scientific calculator that can also calculate molecular mass, and from this main calculator over 80 other calculators and science tools can be called....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Dot Point Learning Systems, Note Pad Area, Measurement Converter, Productivity
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- Survey: mobile access to files is critical to small business
- ...access to DATA is critical...Perhaps this a 'nit', but the slide implies that the survey asked about access to 'data', not 'files'. I'm not sure if the results would be any different, but I would not consider those words interchangeable. Access to 'data' implies being able to see information from...
- Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Office, survey, small business, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- (Philips Tapster--photos)
- more information please ...The following introductory statement is lacking the beef: [i]"... the product will never set foot on a retail shelf."[/i]WHY will it never appear on the retail shelf?What is it, and why should I want it?Even cycling through the photographs, each with a little info about...
- Tags: Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Tapster, photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded
- ... WHAT?Who in their right mind keep a server running with default usernames/passwords on the default port....I doubt that jailbroken iPhones are alone in this. It's possible, specially if iPhones have a ssh server running, that this could happen on non-jailbroken iPhones also.Just one question...Has this person been remanded yet?...
- Tags: Smart phones, extortion, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Vvidget 10.6.1 (Mac)
- Vvidget Pro is a programming framework for making applications which report data in graph, custom map, table, form, and textual formats. Vvidget Pro includes the interactive layout application Vvidget Builder and pre-built objects. Vvidget Pro accepts real-time data from any source and serves as an information visualization engine for real-time...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Programming, VVI, Vvidget Pro, Development Tools, Product Development, Apple Mac OS X, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Research & Development, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- NFS Manager 3.3 (Mac)
- NFS Manager is a graphical user interface to control all built-in NFS features of Mac OS X. It can manage a whole network of Mac OS X computers to setup a distributed NFS file system via a few simple mouse clicks. NFS Network File System is the industry standard for...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network File System, Apple Mac OS X, Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme, NFS Manager, NFS Manager 3, Ip storage, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
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