There is nothing very “smart” about my video collection. I have the expected classics that any film minor would have acquired, dusted and ready to stream at a moment’s notice. More...
In your experience, how common is it for financial aid offices to push in to classrooms with messages to students about financial aid, managing student loan debt, and personal finance—and what may be holding them back from doing this more. More...
By Joshua Kim. Yes, first be horrified, but then try to think about where Georgia Tech could take this technology. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. At an institution that prides itself on its use of technology, one professor goes in the opposite direction -- banning all electronic devices in his classes. More...
Parents Should Be Aware of Ads Posing as Games
Welcome to the world of advergaming, the practice whereby advertisers market to kids by creative attractive games chock full of brand name promotions. This article explores several advergaming sites, including Nick.com, where a required plug-in is "a technological trojan horse for pushing slick ad messages on my 11-year-old son." Advertisers know what educators seem to have forgotten: that online gaming will catch and hold a child's attention. More...
SMIL: Multimedia Rides the XML Wave
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") is XML language used to describe the layout and synchronization of multimedia. More...
The Tyranny of Email
This nice article, picked up in Slashdot, takes the goodness of email for granted and takes a long, lingering and declicious look at why email is bad. The first problem with email, writes the author, is that it interrupts you, especially email that rings or dings or says "You've got mail" when it arrives. More...
Social Software and the Politics of Groups
We have made software more and more usable for the individual, argues the author, because it's relatively easy to design for the single user. But we are increasingly using software to moderate group experiences, and here questions of usability are much more difficult. More...
eLibrary to Provide Research Service to Microsoft Office 2003 Users
Pack up your research bags, put those learning projects on hold, wipe down the counters and lock the library doors. Microsoft is going to do it all for you. That's the message of this press release issued today by Alacritude, the company behind eLibrary. More...
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