Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should…
November 25, 2007
I’m late to this, but it’s still funny nonetheless. Applachian State U. apparently did this video for a campus(alumni?) event and has since received some unexpected publicity from the effort.
Of course, if the original wasn’t enough, here’s a couple variations on the theme.
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Admissions
November 15, 2007
Good article on the admissions and institutional websites. Provides some background on Enrollment Power Index.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7439
Here’s the folks that provide the reports for about a $1k per institution:
http://www.NRCCUA.org/epireport
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Archiving Institutional Digital Data
November 15, 2007
This topic has been around for awhile. Here’s some decent links:
Sun PASIG – http://sun-pasig.org/
DSpace – http://www.dspace.org/
Fedora – http://www.fedora-commons.org/
ePrints – http://www.eprints.org/
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Standards for Colleges and Universities
November 14, 2007
This will have an affect on data collection and methodologies of reporting at Universities:
http://www.nasulgc.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=788&srcid=183
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iPhone makes room for the gPhone (sort of)
November 13, 2007
Maybe I’ll hold on to my Treo just a bit longer and see how this play out in the market.
 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/a-first-look-at-the-google-phone/index.html?ref=technology
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HDTV quality via the Internet!
November 12, 2007
This is going to up the game for the quality of instructional videos (actually all video material, but I like to focus on the educational aspects.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12intel.html?ref=business
Add HDTV video conferencing as well:
http://www.lifesize.com/pr.php?prid=92
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Educational Datamining
November 10, 2007
Here’s good video on the efforts to collect and analyze “microgenetic” data on student learning, i.e. datatmining on digitial learning footprints. As Dr. Dede stated in the end of his presentation, this is definitely a two edge sword.
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As we work to extend the functionality of our portal with external resources and applications, the answer to this question is important. In all reality there’s probably room for both MS and Google; and we will choose functionality that is applicable to our needs and can be supported (integrated), but it makes sense to align current efforts and identify priorities as best we can in order to insure agility when opportunity presents itself.  Here’s a good article from eweek on direction of OpenSocial.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2210612,00.aspÂ
