Web/Portals
- U Arizona Brings Phoenix Mars Mission to iTunes U
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6/3/2008
The University of Arizona has brought video and animation relating to the Phoenix Mars Mission onto iTunes U, the education-focused portal hosted on Apple's iTunes. U Arizona is the lead on the mission, the first in a NASA program aimed at launching smaller missions to Mars designed to complement larger ones.
- Adobe Intros Acrobat 9, Launches Acrobat.com Beta
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6/2/2008
Adobe Monday announced details of its forthcoming major revision to the entire Acrobat family: Acrobat 9. The company also debuted a new Acrobat.com collaboration beta site and announced an updated Creative Suite (version 3.3), which will incorporate the upcoming Acrobat 9 Pro software.
- Microsoft Releases ASP.NET MVC Preview 3
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5/30/2008
This week Microsoft released the latest preview version of its model view controller (MCV) architecture for Web applications frameworks.
- Google's App Engine: No Waiting
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5/29/2008
Google's long-percolating application development environment, the Google App Engine, is now generally available to the public at large, the company announced Wednesday.
- HP's App Security Center Upgraded and Delivered as a Service
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5/29/2008
Hewlett-Packard may not be the first name that comes to mind when the conversation turns to application security, but since its acquisition of SPI Dynamics last year, HP has increased its investment in research, product enhancements, and new services in the application security area.
- Canada's McMaster University Gets into Rare Book Business Digitally
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5/28/2008
Canada's McMaster University Library and United States-based companies Kirtas Technologies and Lulu.com will be partnering this fall to make rare books available to the public.
- Social Networking: Learning Theory in Action
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5/28/2008
There has been a lot of recent debate on the benefits of social networking tools and software in education. While there are good points on either side of the debate, there remains the essential difference in theoretical positioning. Can social networking both as an instructional concept and user skill be integrated into the conventional approaches to teaching and learning? Do the skills developed within a social networking environment have value in the more conventional environments of learning?
- Google To Unveil GWT 1.5 at Developer Conference
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5/27/2008
Google is set to unveil the latest version of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) at the company's first big developer conference, Google I/O, scheduled to run this week (May 28 and 29) in San Francisco.
- Live@edu Integrates Exchange Labs
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5/27/2008
Microsoft's Live@edu, a suite of online tools focused specifically toward education, has now been expanded to include Exchange Labs, which is similar to a hosted Exchange service but with prototype features that are not yet available to the general public. The move brings expanded e-mail options to campus IT departments, including 10 GB of space per account, as free added features.
- Microsoft Shuttering Book Digitization Efforts
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5/27/2008
Following on the heels of Microsoft's announcement that it would pay customers who search for and buy products through Microsoft Live Search cashback, the company's Microsoft's Live Search team announced on its blog that it would be taking down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects Web sites in coming days.
- Harris Intros Facebook-based Alumni Connections
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5/27/2008
Harris Connect has launched a new alumni and student relations tool built on the Facebook Platform. Dubbed "Community Connections," the application is designed to provide secure connections between schools and their Facebook-using constituents and keep them engaged with news and other information.
- Columbia School of Public Health Hires Magazine Site Designer To Revamp Web Site
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5/23/2008
Columbia University has selected Format-Studio to develop a new website strategy and design for the Mailman School of Public Health. Format has designed websites for major magazines, including New York Magazine, Prevention Magazine, Glamour and Field & Stream.
- American and Brazilian Students Collaborate via Virtual Classrooms
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5/21/2008
Four universities--two in the United States and two in Brazil--are testing inter-continental distance learning in a program facilitated by technology from Wimba. The U.S.-Brazil Consortium enables global collaboration among teachers and learners at The University of Georgia in Athens, Utah State University in Logan, Universidade Federal do Ceará and Universidade Estadual Paulista, Bauru.
- Building a Competitive Web Strategy for an Academic Site
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5/21/2008
In this fictional scenario, Trent Batson examines a typical department's struggle to redesign its Web presence, posing questions like: "We can't help but notice that social sites like YouTube and Facebook are awfully easy to use -- why can't our academic site be more like them?"
- Adobe Launches Bundles for Online Learning
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5/20/2008
Adobe this week launched a new slate of bundles and resources for educators looking to use Acrobat Connect Pro in their online teaching efforts. Adobe just introduced the new version of Acrobat Connect Pro about two weeks ago.
- SightSpeed Releases Free MySpace Widget for Video Mail and Chat
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5/19/2008
SightSpeed has launched SightSpeed Light on MySpace, a free widget that adds integrated video mail, public video posting, and video chat for members of MySpace. The widget was built using MySpace's Developer Platform, introduced in February.
- Purdue Implements Classroom Capture for Campus and Distance Learning
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5/16/2008
Purdue University has selected Winnov's Cbox 3 to record classroom lectures and enhance its distance learning programs. The Cbox 3 lecture capture appliance is used at Purdue's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
- New Media Consortium Launches $100,000 Program for Virtual Learning
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5/16/2008
The New Media Consortium, a not-for-profit group of organizations focused on bringing technology into the learning process, has kicked off a competitive award program for educational communities in Second Life and Project Wonderland. Twenty grants totaling $100,000 in cash and development assistance will be awarded this year to fund these educational efforts.
- Scripting Gurus Debate Dynamic Languages
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5/16/2008
Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and Sun Microsystems' director of Web technologies, hosted a lively post-Script Bowl panel discussion on the future of dynamic scripting languages at this year's JavaOne Conference.
- New Blackboard Sync Application Leverages Facebook
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5/14/2008
Blackboard Inc. today announced Blackboard Sync, an application that allows students to receive course updates and communicate with classmates while logged on to Facebook.
- Wikis Get Users Talking at MIT, Johns Hopkins
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5/14/2008
In many ways, college campuses are an obvious implementation for a wiki tool. The decentralized nature of the technology and its ability to allow a wide range of individuals or groups to contribute ideas into a single area through Web browsers make wikis simple and compelling for higher education uses.
- Firms To Benchmark Higher Ed Online Operations
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5/14/2008
Education consultancy Eduventures has teamed up with The Campus Computing Project to kick off a new study focusing on online operations in higher education.
- Study: Top Web Application Vulnerabilities Remain Unfixed
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5/13/2008
Organizations still aren't doing enough to protect their data from Web application vulnerabilities, according to a study released Tuesday by security firm Cenzic. The study, Application Security Trends Report, Q1 2008, identified "1,409 unique published vulnerabilities for the first quarter of 2008, with Web technology vulnerabilities comprising 70 percent of the vulnerability volume...."
- Data-Focused VS2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Betas Released
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5/13/2008
Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 beta bits for public download this week. In addition to the usual performance enhancements, bug fixes and stability improvements, the SP1 betas offer widely anticipated data access technologies.
- Kentucky School System Extends CMS Collaboration Functionality
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5/12/2008
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) said it will deploy the Wimba Collaboration Suite across 16 colleges to connect students and educators through online video, voice, text, application sharing, polling and whiteboarding.
