Another article on tablet PCs - or, as I have been calling them for the last four years, PADs. With a projected launch date just six weeks away, they could sweep through the marketplace within just a few months. More...
Web Site Fuels Debate on Campus Anti-Semitism
Web Site Fuels Debate on Campus Anti-Semitism
Are university professors fair game for web sites featuring "dossiers" of those it opposes? The organizers of a site called Campus Watch think so as they compile and post information about colleges and professors they allege to be anti-semetic. The site is currently running very slowly (thanks, probably, to the New York Times article linked here). More...
Ups and Downs of Wireless Access
Ups and Downs of Wireless Access
A good article describing the state of mobile wireless access from the point of view of an itinerant web surfer. The only thing I don't understand is why she had so much trouble sending email. In any cased, her experiences wandering through cities looking for a connection are similar to mine. More...
Rub-a-dub-dub, IBM in a Tub
Rub-a-dub-dub, IBM in a Tub
I have talked about embedded processing before, but this takes the cake. The eSuds system, developed by IBM and USA technologies, will allow students to pay for laundry by swiping a card or punching a code into their phones. But more, it lets students check a website for empty machines. More...
The Pen as Mighty as the Keyboard
The Pen as Mighty as the Keyboard
Just what the world doesn't need: hand written websites. Why? Because most people have terrible handwriting! Oh, and we don't need handwritten emails either. More...
ASCD Advocacy Kit
ASCD Advocacy Kit
From the website: "Through the goal of success for all learners, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) unites educators worldwide. Yet troubling trends threaten the realization of the ASCD vision. Public support for education is increasingly fragile. Poverty jeopardizes the well-being and education of our young people. More...
The Path to Teacher Leadership in Educational Technology
The Path to Teacher Leadership in Educational Technology
Useful paper that examines issues related to techers' adoption of technology. It examines an earlier model where teachers begin as learners, eventually reaching a point where they reaffirm (or reject) the technology and become technology leaders. But many teachers, after learning, were simply rejecting technology. More...
Developing a Community of Learners: Potentials and Possibilities in Web Mediated Discourse
Developing a Community of Learners: Potentials and Possibilities in Web Mediated Discourse
Overview article that summarizes some of the advantages of creating an online learning community for classroom learners and describes some of the techniques employed to support such a community. More...
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IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers
IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers
Last week when IBM and Thomson Learning announced an agreement I suggested that a third component was needed to bolster IBM's elearning capacity. The third part comes this week with IBM's acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, the branch of the accounting giant responsible for the eArmyU project and a variety of other elearning initiatives. More...