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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
University Sued over E-Books
Here’s an interesting story about a university trying to take advantage of new technologies and getting sued. And, no, it’s not by the publishers of the e-books.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
College Students and Technology Trends
Here is a summary of the ECAR study and its revelation of technology trends and preferences among college students. Courtesy of the ACRL blog.
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Best College Websites
The best college websites include several that only offer online courses. Click the link to see who made the top list or visit the WordStream site to read the report about college websites being optimized for search engines (which is what this ranking is really all about).
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
IPA in MS Word 2007
For those of us who traffic in IPA symbols, especially those who do phonetic translations of foreign language texts (like musicians), typing accurate IPA symbols (and diacritical marks) has always been a pain.
Kudos to Microsoft for enabling an easy way to add them. No longer do we have to download fonts, insert symbols, or mess [...]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
College Debate on Second Life
Here’s an interesting article about a debate team at St. John’s University holding a debate in the virtual world: Chronicle of Higher Ed Article
Apparently it’s not an “official” competition, but if it’s successful it could lead to more of these kinds of things. I can see it being particularly useful for getting debate teams together [...]
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Google Chrome
So Google Chrome has been around for a while now. What I’m hearing and experiencing most about this new web browser is that it’s FAST! And the biggest drawback is that there aren’t plugins available yet. And I know when I tried it right at the beginning that it had issues with displaying popups and [...]
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