Education IT

An unusual day, part 2 (or "My lease is up! Now what?")

Christopher Dawson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:00:22 +0000

Part 2 of my unusual day, ending with a very different direction and a lot of ideas to stretch my shrinking budget.

An unusual day, part 1

Christopher Dawson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:58:17 +0000

Thursday did not go as planned for me. However, it managed to help me rethink the way our teachers want to, can, and should use technology on a daily basis in their classrooms.

Edufire raises the bar with new video offerings

Christopher Dawson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:41 +0000

Ever dropped a class in college because the professor was just horrific and better relegated to a lab somewhere? New video preview capabilities announced by EduFire today should help shake out the wheat from the chaff in terms of their instructional offerings.

Moodlerooms announces joule platform at EDUCAUSE

Christopher Dawson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:51:44 +0000

Moodlerooms announced today that many of the features that users either built themselves or found via third parties for Moodle are integrated into the company's new joule platform.

New Live@Edu offerings keep pressure on Google Apps for Education

Christopher Dawson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:18:11 +0000

Microsoft made a number of major announcements today, all designed to up the ante in its battle for business and educational customers with Google's Apps products. The most important for us? Microsoft announced serious expansions of its Live@Edu services, most of which are based on the now-cheaper Exchange and Sharepoint Online offerings.

Smart.fm - almost enough to make me want an iPhone

Christopher Dawson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:19:10 +0000

I really don’t want an iPhone. I’m holding out for a Droid, just as soon as I figure out some way to justify getting rid of my perfectly adequate BlackBerry. However, the iPhone has lots of apps and one in particular is being unveiled today: Smart.fm’s iPhone interface for their online learning environment. The [...]

Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010

Christopher Dawson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:43:03 +0000

No, it's not Wave. We'll see Wave evolve and find its way into more schools and businesses who are already using Google Apps, but the real focus for the Apps team in 2010 will be improving their Docs/Spreadsheets/Presentation offerings.

Remember when FrontPage seemed pretty slick?

Christopher Dawson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:16:31 +0000

The idea of a WYSIWYG HTML editor was more than a little exciting before the Web completely exploded. Now, of course, the Web has completely exploded. Over and over. Through booms and busts, until it's at least peripherally involved in much of what we do. Frontpage is no longer the least bit cool. In fact, it doesn't even exist anymore...Enter Content Management Systems.

Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever

Christopher Dawson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:42:29 +0000

My budget manager has already told me to be really conservative as I begin the FY11 budgeting process. I have a few sacred cows and some key line items that I know will be funded, but those Windows 7 upgrades I was looking at? Ummm, yeah...I'm not looking at them anymore.

Scary Tech: Attack of the Killer Kindles

Christopher Dawson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:16:48 +0000

I don't know what's scarier: my recent obsession with e-readers or the crazy Kindle nonsense flying about. What I do know is that when my editor asked me to name this year's scary tech, the first thing that popped into my head was "Attack of the Killer Kindles!"

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