ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary
Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary
OneMinuteNews Targets Generation Y with Bite-Sized Videos, Interaction Publishers Fight OverDrive On Library eBook Distribution Social media and research workflow (pdf) WikiLeaks Clone Takes On Higher Education NBN to go live in Armidale in April Digital Education Revolution broadly on track New class of whistleblower sets site on universities With Google’s One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade Google undercuts 'shortsighted' Apple as publishers rebel First Facebook SIM Card Released Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education (pdf) Mobile app puts a university campus in your hand 2011 Horizon Report (emerging technology impacting on higher education) New smart card a credit to university Students queue online, instead of in line Email Drives More Traffic To Retailer Websites Than Social Media NSW Liberals seek specialist unis to restore IT Google Collaborates with International Museums, Launches ‘Art Project’ Facebook Begins Listing Deals On The Site foursquare Invades Campus - Every Campus New Google Docs features ease organization Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
OneMinuteNews Targets Generation Y with Bite-Sized Videos, Interaction MediaBistro.com March 01 2011 Got a minute for the news? OneMinuteNews, which, as the name suggests, offers one-minute news bites on-demand to Web and mobile users, will make its debut Tuesday. OneMinuteNews content will consist of trending and breaking news, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, personal finance, and technology. The site was developed by veteran media executive.... Full article: http://goo.gl/qE4Nm Publishers Fight OverDrive On Library eBook Distribution MediaBistro.com February 25 2011 Last month OverDrive launched the ability to check out library books with your phone, which is available on various devices including the iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry and Android-based devices. But some publishers are not happy about.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Xhvyf Social media and research workflow (pdf) CIBER, University College London Emerald Group Publishing Ltd February 2011 Full article: ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary
http://goo.gl/apXRp WikiLeaks Clone Takes On Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education February 23 2011 Dear University Leaders: You might want to think twice before clicking “send” on your next e-mail. WikiLeaks, scourge of governments worldwide, now has a copycat for academe. And the new group is itching to publish your university’s deepest secrets. Its Web site, UniLeaks, debuted this month with a pair of open letters to university leaders in Australia.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Crc7c NBN to go live in Armidale in April TechWorld.com.au February 23 2011 NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, has confirmed Armidale will be the first mainland site to go live with the NBN, with the switch-on date slated for April. Quigley told the audience at the Broadband and Beyond 2011 industry conference in Sydney that.... Full article: http://goo.gl/8TEb1 Digital Education Revolution broadly on track Delimiter.com.au February 18 2011 The Federal Government’s auditor yesterday revealed Labor’s $2.2 billion dollar Digital Education Revolution was well placed to deliver one computer to every student in Years 9 to 12, by the end of 2011. The DER is a project started by then newly-elected Labor Government in 2007 which aims to change both learning and teaching practices across all educational institutions in Australia.... Full article: http://goo.gl/L8k17 New class of whistleblower sets site on universities The Age, Australia February 18 2011 THERE is WikiLeaks. Now there's UniLeaks - a student-run version of the whistleblower website aimed at the inner workings of universities. The site, which launched this week, received thousands of visits in its first few days.... Full article: http://goo.gl/2sj9A ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary
With Google’s One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade PaidContent.org February 16 2011 Included in the announcement of Google’s long-expected One Pass paid content system for publishers is news that two more U.S. newspaper chains are planning to put up online paywalls at some of their newspaper sites this year: Media General.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Opv3q Google undercuts 'shortsighted' Apple as publishers rebel The Sydney Morning Herald February 17 2011 Google has moved to undercut Apple in app subscriptions as Apple faces a backlash from publishers for being too restrictive and taking too big a cut of revenue. Google will only take a 10 per cent cut of digital content sales and share subscriber information with publishers on its Android phone and tablet platform.... Full article: http://goo.gl/QjohG First Facebook SIM Card Released AllFacebook.com February 14 2011 Every GSM cell phone will soon have Facebook built right in, as Gemalto has created the first SIM card including functions related to the social network. A spokesperson for the social network confirmed the development in via email.... Full article: http://goo.gl/havAz Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education (pdf) Academic Impressions - Making Informed Investments in Social Media - Marketing and Recruiting with Social Media - Social Media and Student Learning: Moving the Needle on Engagement - Social Media for your Advancement Operation - Managing the Risks of Social Media.... Full article: http://goo.gl/b5yih Mobile app puts a university campus in your hand Ragan.com February 07 2011
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ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary
Texas Tech’s app provides the campus community info on class times, bus routes and more—and it’s not finished yet. Say you’re looking for a place to eat on a university campus. It can be a complicated process just to get some lunch. Where is it? When is it open? Where can you board a shuttle that.... Full article: http://goo.gl/KvnXt 2011 Horizon Report (emerging technology impacting on higher education) EDUCAUSE February 2011 Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are.... Full article: http://goo.gl/oPWU2 New smart card a credit to university The Canberra Times February 09 2011 The introduction of new smart cards at the University of Canberra, allowing students to pay for various on-campus goods and services, has been met with wide acceptance and little criticism. Director of Civil Liberties Australia Tim Vine said the university's roll-out of the new technology had been.... Full article: http://goo.gl/VHKn7 Students queue online, instead of in line Melbourne Times Weekly February 08 2011 MELBOURNE University’s arts centre hopes to free up its students’ time, with virtual queues taking the place of real-life line-ups. In an Australian first, the Parkville university has begun using QLess – an online tool that allows students to join a queue and hold their place in line by.... Full article: http://goo.gl/aNoz6 Email Drives More Traffic To Retailer Websites Than Social Media WebProNews.com February 06 2011 Email offers retailers better results Traditional marketing provides a better return on investment (ROI) for retailers than social media, according to a new report from ForeSee Results.... Full article: ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary
http://goo.gl/oRaSm NSW Liberals seek specialist unis to restore IT ComputerWorld.com.au February 04 2011 Shadow education minister Adrian Piccoli flags potential R&D labs should Liberals win March election The NSW Liberal party will seek to establish specialist IT and science centres at the state’s universities in a bid to attract and retain attention as a lucrative centre for development and investment.... Full article: http://goo.gl/6G6p4 Google Collaborates with International Museums, Launches ‘Art Project’ MediaBistro.com February 02 2011 Thoughts of Walter Benjamin‘s famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction aside, yesterday Google launched Art Project, an online gallery holding a collection of art compiled across seventeen high-profile museums, ranging from London’s National Gallery to New York’s MoMA.... Full article: http://goo.gl/qetEg Facebook Begins Listing Deals On The Site AllFacebook.com February 01 2011 Want to know what all the Deals are in your area? Facebook is listing some of them in geographic regions via a new deals overview page. While not a comprehensive listing of all deals, it’s definitely an interesting feature and.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ah7k9 foursquare Invades Campus - Every Campus MediaBistro.com January 31 2011 foursquare is enrolling in college — every college, worldwide. The location-based mobile app announced on its blog that foursquare university badges can now be activated on every campus throughout the world. The blog post read.... Full article: http://goo.gl/6sSPl New Google Docs features ease organization TechWorld.com.au February 01 2011 Google has overhauled the document organizer within Docs, making it even better for business use. ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary
Google rolled out a handful of improvements to Google Docs on Monday that make it an even more compelling business tool. This time the changes focus on the document overview window that appears when you first access Google Docs. Up until now this has merely been an area where documents could be.... Full article: http://goo.gl/uwRUr Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
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