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Technology killing off the traditional lecture?: Most colleges and universities use Virtual Learning Environments VLE like Moodle, Blackboard and Dokeos and it's a great way to share information, collect coursework and essays, and keeping in touch with the students as well as the students keeping in touch with the lecturers. But...; Tags: Lecture, Lectures, Telephony, Networking, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-06-01
New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely useful: New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely usefulThat's fantasticHow I wish I could have filtered my university lectures for content! Imagine the tool this could be for specific research. Not to mention the ease of tuning out any waffle for which you're paying a premium to listen!Anyone recording lectures...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, lecture, K12, tool, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Discussion threads 2007-11-27
New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely useful: While it is becoming increasingly common and easy for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last week for my numerical analysis class. Fortunately, the professor always posts his lectures...; Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Tool, Lecture, Speech Recognition, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-11-26
OK, I give in...Interactive whiteboards are pretty cool: I finally got our Mimio boards working this week and I have to admit they are far more useful than I expected. They had about as much appeal to me as tablet PCs used to, and, frankly, I bought them because the state told us we needed to be...; Tags: Interactive Whiteboard, Whiteboard, Lecture, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-09-07
Lecture Recorder (exe): This program allows you to record lectures and attach written summaries. To make a lecture summary several rich-text fields are provided: course, subject, date, lecturer, digest, and notes. There is also an option to print the summary. Built-in audio recorder comes with real-time OGG audio compression, an editor for making...; Tags: Recorder, Summary, Lecture; Software downloads 2007-03-08

Physics lectures gain audience in Tibet, Mali, and even Berkeley: In September, we related that UC Berkeley and Google had teamed up for some "coursecasting," and that Berkeley would be streaming hundreds of hours of course material on Google Video. The project is now in full swing and, The San Francisco Chronicle reports, the verdict is in. The most...; Tags: Education Technology, Distance Learning; Blog posts 2006-11-06
Google Video gets academic: Google 'coursecasting' university class lectures: Google Video gets academic: Google 'coursecasting' university class lecturesOther Universities doing far more interesting things with web-videoThis is interesting--Google is certainly impressive in their continued expansion into all things web-related. To disclose where my perspective is coming from, however, I have to say that I have ties to IVT (Interactive...; Tags: Google Inc., webcasting, lecture, IVT, Marist College, Google Video, video; Discussion threads 2006-10-05
Yale to post courses on Web for free: Yale to post courses on Web for freeFree but no benefitDoesn't sound like its free it it cost $755k with no credit to a degree. More can be learned by reading FREE book from the library.Lectures are a breakthroughMIT put a lot of material on the internet, but...; Tags: Benefits, Web, Yale University, lecture; Discussion threads 2006-09-21
Prof charges for podcasts: Prof charges for podcastsShould the public have access to lectures when students have paid?The article asks "Should the public have access to these lectures when students have paid tuition prices for them?" This seems to me to be a completely separate issue. The students presumably have their "own" university user...; Tags: Podcasts, lecture, university computer system, Prof, podcast; Discussion threads 2006-09-20
Prof charges for podcasts: Does a professor have the right to charge his/her students a fee for downloading lectures posted as podcasts? That's the question that administrators are grappling with at North Carolina State recently since a NC State communications professor began charging for his podcasts, reports Ars Technica. Robert Schrag, a North...; Tags: lecture, concert, network computer, NC State; Blog posts 2006-09-19
No more death by PowerPoint: No more death by PowerPointPowerpoint is fine for....... people who can't talkpeople who don't know their stuffpeople with a personality deficitpeople who think a flashy graphic will hide poor material.The rest of us like to hear a well-presented lecture from somebody who is confident in his ability and understands the...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, lecture, death-by-PowerPoint, tool; Discussion threads 2006-07-21
iTunes demo sites and gripes: Some nice uses of iTunes U in major universities: Duke is using iTunes U to support French students. “Once the content is loaded on their iPods via iTunes U – which takes just minutes – students...; Tags: Apple iTunes; Blog posts 2006-02-28
Stanford using iTunes to take lectures global: Stanford using iTunes to take lectures globalStanford using iTunes to take lectures globalNow thats a pretty good use of iTunes in a non-entertainment setting. A round of applause goes out to them.; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, lecture, Stanford; Discussion threads 2005-11-03
VoD Maker (exe): VoDMaker allows users to record any online or offline movies, news, and online lectures from the Internet in virtually mirror-image quality, at only a fraction of the original size. Users can make their own VOD libraries and watch it at their own demand. VoDMaker helps users to adjust video and...; Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital media, VoD, AVI, mouse, video, Internet; Software downloads 2005-08-19
AirTransNote: Augmented Classrooms With Digital Pen Devices and RFID Tags: AirTransNote augments activities in classrooms by sharing student notes written on regular paper using wireless communications. AirTransNote uses digital pens to free students from the need to use PCs for note taking. To improve the effectiveness of the system, the authors' have used a portable remote controller with an RFID...; Tags: Teacher, Lecture, RFID Tag, AirTransNote, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics; White papers 2005-08-15
Photos: Clickers in the classroom: Gadgets called "clickers" are giving teachers and students alike instant feedback on how well lectures are sinking in.; Tags: lecture, classroom, teacher; Image galleries 2005-08-05
Photos: Clickers in the classroom: Gadgets called "clickers" are giving teachers and students alike instant feedback on how well lectures are sinking in.; Tags: lecture, classroom, teacher; Image galleries 2005-08-05
The Design of Lecture Courses and Laboratory Experiments for Mobile Telecommunications: This paper describes three courses which are carefully designed for telecommunications education. These three courses cover the fundamental concepts of Personal Communications Services PCS, the relevant programming languages for software application development and the details of protocols suited for multimedia services, VoIP for example, in future All-IP network. Besides electronic...; Tags: Mobile, National Cheng Kung University, Course, Lecture, Telephony, Software Development, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Development Tools, Middleware, Networking, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-03-01

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Ten ways to tell it's not SOA: Ten ways to tell it's not SOAInteresting listAlso interesting is that I disagree with items 3 and onward.Ways to tell it's SOAIf it it doesn't work, it's SOA.If its a 3 hour lecture with no information content, it's SOAIf it's recommended by non-tech people, then it's SOAIf it's as useful...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
In-class computers vs. labs: Most of our decisions have come together fairly well on our elementary/middle school tech refreshes, particularly in terms of platform and software. However, there is some debate about using computers in several small lab stations in individual classrooms vs. using one or two consolidated computer labs. ...; Tags: Lab, Teacher, Computer, Productivity, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-06-27