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Category Archives: Learning Technologies
Mobile phone to be primary internet link in 2020
A survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves. That is one of the key findings in a new report, [...]
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The Academic Library in a 2.0 World
This ECAR research bulletin provides a context for the current state of academic libraries and the issues they face in a Web 2.0 world. The literature suggests that library services in higher education will continue to be crucial to the core processes of learning, teaching, and research as long key library structures, processes, services, and [...]
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Second Life
Due to an incompatibility with the graphics card in some Dell computers, Second Life only works on the GX 520 models. These are the 70 computers located on Library North 1. There is an effort underway to find a solution, but in the meantime please refer patrons to those computers.
Wikipedia seeks education, not profit
From the San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, August 25.
Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit
“Analysts have pegged Wikipedia’s value between several hundred million dollars and $7 billion, the latter by Silicon Alley Insider, a technology blog known for its list of the World’s Most Valuable Digital Startups. But its keepers have thus far refused to sell [...]
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Podcast on iTunesU
The University Library is now officially available on iTunes U, here.
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Disruptive Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities
Grainne Conole of OpenLearn presented a talk titled Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008. She focused on the “informational aspects” of Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom, particularly how they might (or might not) change pedagogical models.
The video can be viewed here at iThinkEd.
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Scanning to a Jump Drive
With the Scanner Terminals in the Learning Commons if you plug the jump drive in before the computer boots up, you’ll have no problem with the computer “reading” the drive. The “removable” drive was right there ready to save images, scans, etc.
However, if the H-Drive doesn’t show up, there is a alternative method to get [...]
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