The FTCs on all three campuses will be hosting open houses every day the week of 9/8 to showcase our new technologies and offer interested a faculty an opportunity to drop by and see what we’re all about.

Hours and locations:

RH: Keating B-27, 12:00pm-2:00pm M-F

LC: LL 416, 12:00pm-2:00pm M-F

Westchester: Room 218, 5:00pm-7:00pm M-F

Refreshments will be served.

We hope to see you there!

Martin Weller from the Open University has posted his very interesting introduction to the theory and methodology behind The Open University’s new Social:Learn program, which will be an attempt to leverage web 2.0 ideas and methodologies–as well as web 2.0 tools–for learning. The talk is really centered around this question: “How can you get that sort of wiki, open source enthusiasm that people have for creating and sharing content into higher education, while still maintaing those values we hold to in higher education?”

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ITAC at Rose Hill, including all Media Services and the Faculty Technology Center moved to the new media suite during the last week of May. Our new location is:

Lincoln Center offices and facilities remain in LL 416 and LL 418.

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.

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.

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.

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.