The people at Engadget have made a career out of finding new hardware, or new uses for hardware. They have discovered the iPods use in education.
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25
May
An Engadget Article
There are now real time tutoring available form India, which makes studying at 3 AM easier. Apparently the student I have spoken with has said that if the price is right, this type of assitance, particularly for the sciences, would be useful. Of course, it would be useful for grammer as well.
04
May
Network Throttle
When Napster became an uncontrollable force, CIMS installed a network throttle to give priority to certain types of network traffic. This prevents Napster files from taking over the network and bringing it to a stop.
Kansas University suffers from theft, not unlike any University. We here at Fordham have similar problems with missing video projectors being a special target, which explanins why more and more of them are locked in cages suspended from the ceiling.
Duke has changed the policy and now students can borrow or buy at a discount.
27
Apr
Purdue and Podcasting
Purdue is pursuing podcasting aggressively. They have in place a program to get podcasts to the students immediately.
There is a great step by step web site on the basics of podcasting including recording your phone conversations. There is one caveat, the how to comes off of a political web site. Just skip the politics.
21
Apr
Podcast for Teachers
I wish I had known about this web site sooner. Someone has gotten a site exclusive for teachers.
I am not familiar with this Journal. It appears to be slanted for education majors, but, it no doubt has benefits to others in education as well.
There is some work being done on advising online dissertation students. This missive requires Adobe Reader which you can download here.
