An interview with a Harvard professor named Chris Dede,
who will be presenting at FETC on emerging interactive
media and immersive interfaces.
VoiceThread now allows its users to copy/clone their
VoiceThreads, allows for exporting to an iPod or iPhone,
and is now compatible with MS Office 2007.
More on the Obama transition teams's website and how it
reflects the potential use of new media by the next
administration.
O'Reilly media is presenting a free webcast next week on
Drupal, an open source content management system. One of
the presenters, Jeff Eaton, is one of the core
developers of the system.
Additional online search engines to Google and Yahoo
such as Blinkx have proven valuable within higher
education.
Western Governors University, a private online institution, has leveraged its mentor-based approach to become the country's largest supplier of math and science teachers in urban school districts.
Berkley College celebrates the growth of its online
catalog from 1-2 course offerings in 1998 to a wide
range of courses in most every discipline. The college
even offers 28 degree programs that are conducted
entirely online.
This article describes a debate that took place at the
Educause conference concerning the use of open source
and commercial applications in education.
Alfresco recently announced the third iteration of its
Enterprise Content Management System, "Alfresco
Enterprise 3." Alfresco is a collaborative enterprise
content management system that incorporates a variety of
Web 2.0 tools and is positioning itself as an
alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint.
Google's JotSpot online collaboration tool has been
shown to expose user information (names and email
addresses) to anyone on the internet. Google has
suggested that this is just an issue of users setting
their wiki accounts to private rather than public.