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EDUCAUSE 2006 – The Changing Place of Space

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Kevin

Alan Cattier, Director of Academic Technologies and Carole Meyers, Senior Director, Facilities and IT at Emory College presented. Space design is something they’ve been working on for seven years and they’d like to show us about what they’ve done for … Continue reading →

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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Gaming as Pedagogy: Teaching College Economics via a Video Game

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Kevin

Robert Brown, the Dean of Continuing Learning and Nora Reynolds, Assistant Dean at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro presented. Brown began by talking about his son’s passion for gaming.  Games are student-controlled, which is very different from your … Continue reading →

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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Time, Space and History

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Kevin

Edward Ayers, the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia and Will Thomas, the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities, in the Department of History at the University of … Continue reading →

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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Social Software, Teaching and Learning

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Kevin

For my pre-conference seminar I chose to attend Bryan Alexander and Barbara Ganley’s seminar on social software, teaching and learning.  I’ve spoken with Bryan about social software, and seen him present at NLII (now ELI), but I’ve never had the … Continue reading →

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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Uncovering the Science in Computer Science: Challenges for the 21st Century

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Kevin

Brian Hawkins started the conference by telling us that more than 7000 people are attending this year. Vinton G. Cerf was our keynote speaker.  Cerf is currently the Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, but he’s had a … Continue reading →

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Testing Podcasts Recorded on an iPod

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Kevin

I wanted to check to see how voice memos recorded on an iPod with the XTremeMac MicroMemo work when creating enhanced podcasts in GarageBand. I recorded the audio in three quick segments.  When I connected the iPod to my computer, … Continue reading →

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Info Island in Second Life

Posted on October 1, 2006 by Kevin

I spent some time this weekend going through Second Life.  Most of the time I stay on the NMC Campus, but it’s quiet most of the time and after a while I’m looking for something to do.  So this weekend … Continue reading →

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Living the Digital Life

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Kevin

Both of my daughters are now taking dance classes near the University. My younger daughter’s class takes place on Saturday, and I do our weekly grocery shopping while she’s in class. The other class takes place at the end of … Continue reading →

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NaturallySpeaking and iListen

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Kevin

For more than eight years I’ve been working with dictation software in one way or another.  Mostly I’ve been working with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, but I’ve given ViaVoice and more recently MacSpeech iListen a try. Dragon is without question the standard … Continue reading →

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The Changing Face of University Websites

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Kevin

Maish Nichani has posted an article, “The Changing Face of University Websites“. The article takes a positive view of the latest redesigns coming from many institutions. Maish approaches the new designs from the positive viewpoint that institutions in this generation … Continue reading →

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