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Sustaining a Brand Over a Large Web Site

9/20/2005

Keeping Cornell.edu updated and consistent is an ongoing project, complete with its own blog.

ePortfolios Help Clayton State University Assess Student Learning and Program

9/16/2005

A member of the Georgia University system with an enrollment of approximately 5,700, Clayton required its students to bring a laptop to campus as early as 1998. Now Clayton is introducing ePortfolios to campus, adding additional value to the students' use of their computers and providing a mechanism to document the outcomes of their education.

Reflection in an Always-on Learning Environment: Has It Been Turned Off?

9/16/2005

Who are the students entering today's colleges and universities? Sometimes referred to as the Net Generation or Millennials (students born in or after 1982), we know that this is a group that has never known a world without computers and the Internet.

One More on Katrina--the Emergence of CampusRelief.org

9/14/2005

Now, campusrelief.org is currently no technological marvel . . . yet. It’s still serving up downloadable Excel spreadsheets rather than through online interactivity, but it’s going to become what we need, and it is intended to be a permanent resource.

ePortfolios >> Hi-Octane Assessment

8/16/2005

Electronic portfolios are changing the way many colleges and universities handle student, educator, and lifelong assessment.

Beyond Campus Boundaries ePortfolio Transforms into 'Cultural Application'

8/9/2005

A brief conversation with Trent Batson, Director of Information and Instructional Technology Services, University of Rhode Island.

INNOVATOR 2005: Northeastern University

7/28/2005

Challenge: Service expectations for higher education are increasingly based on a 24/7, constantly connected world. As new classes of students come in, Northeastern University (MA) is seeing more savvy uses of technology and more impatience with not having it available in the expected “instant” timeframes.

INNOVATOR 2005: Case Western Reserve University

7/28/2005

Challenge: In January 2003, Case Western Reserve University’s (OH) then-new President, Edward M. Hundert, challenged university leadership to engage with the community, and help Case become the best university neighbor any city ever had.

Rich Media >> Get Rich Quick

7/22/2005

The landscape of interactive technology continues to evolve, yet few colleges are employing truly ‘rich’ media. Here’s how yours can be one of them.

Digital Tweed: The Morning After Grokster

7/21/2005

The Supreme Court has spoken. In a 9-0 decision on June 27 concerning the case of MGM vs. Grokster, the US Supreme Court implicitly affirmed that copyright is a very good thing and explicitly stated that “one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright…is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.” In other words, if the primary or most common use of your firm’s product is to help individuals with copyright infringement, and if your firm promotes the product as a way to violate copyrights, then your firm can be held liable for the resulting acts of copyright violations by individuals who use your product.

Driving IT Innovation and Network Innovation

7/21/2005

As CIO and vice president for Information Technology at Duke University (NC), Tracy Futhey oversees technology projects that have far-reaching impact on instruction, research, and the way people live and work on campus. While recently she is most often cited for her work with Duke’s iPod project ), dubbed the iPod First Year Initiative, Futhey’s professional interests have spanned a range of innovative technologies, especially networked and mobile technologies.

All About Partnering

7/20/2005

If we ever had doubt that IT partnering is a great thing, Dell and Napster just drove it out the door.

Report Focuses on How Spyware Impacts Internet Users

7/20/2005

If you want some insight into users knowledge and behavior about spyware and software there's an important white paper you should read.

Dell and Napster Partner to Provide Legal Music Downloading Services for Campuses; University of Washington Signs On

7/6/2005

UPDATED Friday, July 8, 2005-- In a move that will provide campus IT departments with a legal alternative for music downloading, Dell today announced that it is partnering with Napster.

Engaging Students in the ePortfolio Process

7/5/2005

When users of the ANGEL Learning Management System identified ePortfolio as one of their most desired product enhancements, ANGEL Learning instituted an ePortfolio initiative in response.

Academic Computing: The 'Object' of Content Management

6/24/2005

Broward Community College set out to create a digital content repository, and encounters true 'proof on concept' along the way.

New Service Delivers on the Promise of Wiki Technology

6/8/2005

For a long time now, I have been asking around if anyone knows of a piece of software that would let me send email messages to an address where a database would then parse out the message and store it away in data fields-– resulting in an online database that I can then manipulate.

A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, and Ubiquitous High-Speed Broadband

6/1/2005

A group of higher education associations has called for major changes in federal policy toward Internet communications.

The Internet, the Pope, and the iPod

5/23/2005

This spring I had a little epiphany. Asked to teach Internet law to seventeen students from around the world at a special program in Piacenza, Italy (the instruction, thank heavens, is in English), I was reminded of what makes the Internet so exciting: the opportunity for communication, relationships, and possibly even greater understanding among people from all over the world.

Let the Games Begin

5/20/2005

Last fall, November 9th marked a much-anticipated technology event for many in the campus community. Are you wondering what you missed? An amazing new computer? Some breakthrough software application? Did you perhaps miss a critical, hack-proof security patch for your Internet browser or operating system? Software that will forever protect your computer from pop-ups, viruses, and spyware?

Document Imaging Technology >> Image Management

4/29/2005

Tighter links between DI, online processing, and document management solutions, are improving student services and increasing administrative efficiency.

Record Industry Sues 405 Students for Alleged File Sharing

4/12/2005

Acting to stop what it claims is "an emerging epidemic of music theft on a specialized, high-speed university computer network known as Internet2," the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is filing copyright infringement lawsuits against 405 students.

Peer-to-Peer Computing >> Meeting the P2P Challenge

1/31/2005

Napster may be old news, but new file-sharing woes are confounding campus technologists. Help is on the way if you know where to find it.

Hardware Devices >> iPods at the Gate

10/29/2004

Recent Apple/campus partnerships have resulted in hordes of freshmen toting iPods for “academic enrichment”—but who’s really getting rich here?

MPEG-4 and the New, 'Flat' World

9/29/2004