Category Archives: Technology

Here are some links I’ve come across this week.  They interest me, they may interest you. Second Life’s Must Have Stuff: From Wired.  I haven’t bought The Swimmer yet, but I’m thinking about it.  The real find is Freebies.  Several … Continue reading →

c|net has an article, “A Midsummer Night’s Virtual World“.  In it they interview Edward Castronova, who has just been announced as a $240,000 grant recipient from the MacArthur Foundation for a game he is developing, called Arden: The World of … Continue reading →

Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth, Salid Ganjalizadeh, Assistant Director for Instructional Technology at Catholic University, Leslie Hitch, Director, Academic Technology Services at Northeastern University, Christine McMahon, Manager, Advanced Technology at Saint Louis University, Pablo Molina, CIO Information … Continue reading →

Andrea Eastman-Mullins from Alexander Street Press and Robert Hambrick  from North Carolina State University presented.  At the time of the study, Andrea was employed by NCSU. The speakers were part of a task force to evaluate four web conferencing systems: … Continue reading →

Joanne Dehoney, Director of E-LLearning and Victoria Gertis, Special Projects Manager at the Ohio State University presented. We began with everyone in the room listing three technologies (I picked geotagging, clickers, and wikis).  As people around the room called out … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →