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Viewpoint
ePortfolios: Hot Once Again
The question about ePortfolios is no longer «What is it?» Now, it’s «How can we do it?» A Web-based ePortfolio provides the answer.
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Weighing In
The Social Web: Academic Zoning Rules
Trent Batson urges social Web site developers to offer options for managing use for academic purposes.
Sponsored By: Tegrity
Webcast: Transform teaching and learning with class capture
Enable students and faculty to create rich online content, access recorded lectures–anytime, anywhere–and quickly search content to find what they need for study and review. Attend this informative webcast to see how Yavapai Community College uses Tegrity’s flexible, easy-to-use tools and resources to create a better teaching and learning experience on their campus.
Products and Apps
Will the CafeScribe Acquisition Give a Boost to Electronic Textbooks?
The digital textbook is one of those technologies that seem obvious but can take a long time to gain traction. In March, the concept got a boost when long-time textbook distributor and retailer Follet Corp. acquired Salt Lake City-based Fourteen40, and, along with it, CafeScribe, a Web site in its beta phase of offering electronic textbooks.
Symantec: Online Security Concerns Growing in the Workplace
In the world if IT security, it’s a well known secret that end users in Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace and Facebook pages, or shop for plane tickets, computers and other goods and services–all while at the workplace.
WebSphere Portal 6.1 To Couple Web 2.0, Enterprise Technologies
IBM revealed Wednesday that it will ship WebSphere Portal 6.1 this quarter (i.e. by the end of June) with new collaboration, administrative, deployment, and Web 2.0 features based on input gathered from some 4,000 beta testers. The company also announced that it’s shipping three of its accelerators for WebSphere Portal this quarter.
Online Resources
- Webcast: Web 2.0 tutorials
Two schools share how their students, faculty and staff became proficient users of Web 2.0 and other technologies, thanks to Web-based tutorials from Atomic Learning. Attend this free, one-hour session and hear how they use these short, focused tutorials to teach users how to blog, produce podcasts, and collaborate using a wiki; support online learners and ESL students; and provide additional help desk support. Moderated by Campus Technology’s Matt Villano, this 60-minute Webcast will give you tips and ideas for using tutorials to integrate Web 2.0 technologies on your campus.
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