Aug 23, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Heading to a new university for Fall 2010 and want advice from other students? Looking for housing, textbooks, knowledge about a professor or class, or simply a ticket to the weekend’s big game? Technology companies and your school may have answers on your computer or mobile phone, and it won’t cost a thing — at...
Aug 19, 2010
Marco Masoni is a lawyer turned educator who co-founded Einztein.com to address the related problems of searching for good online courses and real-time coursework interaction. Marshall McLuhan’s classic expression “ the medium is the message” hasn’t lost its luster yet, as entrepreneurs and designers re-invent products and services for the web,...
Aug 18, 2010
Training Alumni To Use Social Media Of course, for many alumni social media is still brand new. To help its alumni learn how to utilize social media tools, MSU’s Alumni Career Services office gives tutorials and presentations on how to use social media for a plethora of purposes. Isbell from MSU said the office has done some 25 presentations, engaging...
Aug 17, 2010
While the Kindle has largely failed with students as a replacement for printed textbooks, some colleges plan to test new e-reader devices whose promoters argue that two screens are better than one. One of the new e-readers is called Kno, which was announced in June and will be given to about 100 students at three colleges. The Kno sports two 14-inch...
Aug 16, 2010
Facebook emerged as a social media platform that connects people. Quickly, we began to see how powerful social media can be and businesses rapidly developed social media marketing plans. Now, Facebook serves more than just people. It serves businesses by providing them with an interactive platform where they can engage the audience in communication and...
Aug 16, 2010
What do we learn from Google’s decision to kill the Wave? Perhaps next time we will curb our enthusiasm about the teaching and learning possibilities of a new Web 2.0 tool. The LMS is proving difficult to dislodge as the core technology for teaching (and hopefully learning) on campus. We pay for our learning technology tools one way or another. We...