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In This Issue
- The Buzz:
- Products and Apps
- Kadoo Launches Site for Managing, Storing, and Selectively Sharing Digital Content
- Lourdes College Selects Intelliworks To Track Graduate School Contacts
- Penn State Collaborating with Alcatel-Lucent on Video Social Networking
- eCollege Partners with Cdigix for Rich Media Integration
- Google’s Chrome Browser Contains Microsoft Code
- Zoho Launches Online Document Management Tool
- Online Resources:
The Buzz
Is College Necessary in a Knowledge-Drenched World?
Maybe you’ve heard people ask: «Who needs large lecture halls to learn? Who needs a sound studio or post-production facilities when you can have them on your laptop? If high-end lab equipment or scientific simulation software is also available via the Web, why do you need to visit a campus to run an experiment?» Is «Why attend college at all?» now a serious question?
Products and Apps
Kadoo Launches Site for Managing, Storing, and Selectively Sharing Digital Content
Kadoo has launched a site where users can manage, store, and selectively share their digital content from one place. The service was created by executives from Blackboard, which produces products and services for the education market.
Lourdes College Selects Intelliworks To Track Graduate School Contacts
Lourdes College Graduate School has gone public with plans to manage its prospective student contacts, events, and electronic communications though the Intelliworks constituent relationship management (CRM) platform.
Penn State Collaborating with Alcatel-Lucent on Video Social Networking
The Pennsylvania State University and Alcatel-Lucent have announced an agreement to jointly develop a mobile video social networking application. The collaborative research team will be funded by the vendor.
eCollege Partners with Cdigix for Rich Media Integration
eCollege has announced a partnership with Cdigix that will give students at institutions using the company’s course management system integrated access to rich media assets, including audio and video, among other things.
Google’s Chrome Browser Contains Microsoft Code
The newly released Google Chrome Web browser beta is a completely open source solution and a potential challenger to Microsoft’s proprietary-code Internet Explorer browser, but Microsoft’s Senior Program Manager Scott Hanselman found a little bit of irony in Google’s browser as well.
Zoho Launches Online Document Management Tool
Online collaborative technology developer Zoho has launched its new Zoho Docs, a Web-based document management tool that’s designed to integrate with Zoho’s online spreadsheet, presentation, and document creation software.
Online Resources
- ITVirtualizationLive – Orlando, December 9-11
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Web 2.0 is your single best up-to-the-minute resource for news, tactics, strategies, and case studies for teaching and learning in the new web world. You’ll find the latest information on social software (wikis, blogs, and chat), virtual learning environments, Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) such as Second Life, web-enabled collaboration tools, social collaboration sites, gaming, immersive education technologies, and more. Published bi-monthly, 1st and 3rd Wednesdays in HTML and text formats.
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