Posts Tagged ‘ipad’

Episode 21 – Smells Like Higher Education

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For the weeks of July 31st & August 7th 2010: We discuss the 3 Social Media takeaways so Higher Ed Can Smell Like Old Spice. From The Chronicle on Aug 5, 2010 – Can Things Possibly Get Any Worse for the U. of Georgia. MIT students being question in the WikiLeaks scandal. The Chronicle reported [...]

Episode 13 – It’s Graduation Time

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For the week of May 22, 2010 we’ll be giving the graduating class of 2010 advice, looking at an iPad competitor and wonder if students will even use it, we’ll hack a professor and look at if students today lack empathy.

Episode 11 – Facebook vs. Privacy

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For the week of May 8th we’ll be discussing privacy issues, the AZ immigration law, the president dissing the ipad & are universities losing their influence in the tech world?

Episode 10 – The Great Divide

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For the week of May 1, 2010:
We discuss the new iPad 3G & how it’s dividing schools, how many professors are really using social media, how professors are opting out of the grading business & getting results and we will announce our first Higher Ed Highlight school

Episode 7 – Rough Start for the iPad

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For the week of April 10th, 2010:
iPads may be getting off to a rough start on some campuses. Princeton blocks some iPads from campus network. Reported in The Chronicle in the Wired Campus section on April 14, 2010.

Blackboard and SunGard team up and make nice on April 8, 2010. http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Blackboard-Makes-Nice-With/22399/

Professor promotes his class on YouTube with a lot of success.

From npr.org on April 15, 2010, TV’s ‘The Wire’ Gets New Life In College Classrooms

Capella University’s Latest ‘Inside Online Education’ Podcast: These regular podcasts feature interviews with Capella students, faculty and staff who share the experience of online education from a first-person point of view. They are typically about 15 minutes long and are available at http://www.capellacommons.com.


Virtual Campus Tour with Bill Gates
The talks will also simulcast live on TechCrunch (UC Berkeley, 4/19) and Mashable (Harvard, 4/21). I’ll tweet more details about the live webcasts next week and will be active on Twitter

The University of Washington is leading an expedition deeper into social media and web 2.0. Inside Higher Ed explores along with them on April 14, 2010. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/14/hosein

From USAToday on April 15, 2010 LSU removes tough professor, raises students’ grades

Episode 6 – The iPad has Launched

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For the week of April 3rd, 2010:
The iPad is here and so are the apps for education. We discuss apps used for preparing for driving tests, explaining complex medical terms, this day in history, dictionaries, and visualizing the planets

It looks like more institutions are asking the question about giving away iPads and other mobile technology. The story appears on Inside Higher Ed.com on April 5, 2010.

“Study buddies” & TeacherMates are becoming more popular in school. Even the use of the Nintendo DS is becoming widely used in Japanese schools.

James Kohlhaas, a developer from Datatel, recently won the Microsoft KODU programming contest for his application on Xbox live. More info about Kodu development platform.

The USA Today on March 30th, 2010 took a closer look at the recent changes to student loans.

Students at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles got a grade bump for every grade for every student. Inside Higher Ed reports on this mass grade change on April 2, 2010.

Knox College in Galesburg Illinois is the Butler of commencements speakers. The New York Times explored their impressive roster in an April 4, 2010 article.

iPads Getting the Up and Down Vote

InsideHigherEd.com looked into the trend of giving away iPads and other mobile devices on campus in an article titled “iPads on Campus.” There have recently been two very public announcements of iPad give-a-ways on campuses.  This has led to other IT offices to ask “Should we follow the same path?” Theresa Row, the CIO at [...]

Episode 5 – Oops we lost your data

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For the week of March 27th, 2010:
3.3 million students have their loan and personal information stolen. Reported on ABCNews.com on March 26, 2010. Here is a link to the company’s website with more information if you believe you are one of the people effected.

From NewYorkTimes.com on March 30, 2010 Debt for many states is growing too big to camouflage.

iPads for everyone! Wired Campus of The Chronicle on March 30, 2010.

Is this a word of caution about e-textbooks? A study done at Arizona State University looks into print versus electronic (with a very small sample size). Published in The Chronicle on March 26, 2010.

Schools working hard to make first generation students successful. They are doing it in different manners. USAToday.com took a look on 3/30/10

A great article in the March edition of Inc magazine discussing some great startups from college students.

Evolve or Die OR Adapt or Decline from Inside Higher Ed on March 26, 2010.

School breaks with years of traditions and plays the national anthem before a baseball game from New York Times on March 25, 2010.

Episode 4 for the Week of March 20th 2010

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Recapping the news this week: Riding the health-care wave, the house has approved changes in financial aid. The bill rewrites a four-decades-old student loan program, eliminating its reliance on private lenders and uses the savings to direct $36 billion in new spending to Pell Grants for students in financial need. Reported in USA Today on [...]