Digital Media


USC Foundation Moves Holocaust Digital Archive to Sun Storage

12/09/08

The University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Institute, working with Sun Microsystems, has completed the first stage of the living history project that has captured more than 100,000 hours of interviews of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.

Can You Operate as a Virtual Being?

12/03/08

Now that we are conducting at least a part of our business of education virtually and often meeting in virtual environments, let's explore the really big question for academics in a Web 2.0 era...

IBM's Pass It Along: Mapping Memes Toward A Learning Organization

12/03/08

How IBM's new release is following through on old challenges... big ones.

Delta iTunes U Helps Meet Student Expectations for Web 2.0 Apps

11/19/08

As part of a strategy to meet students' expectations to experience interactive Web 2.0 applications in their learning environments, Delta College in Michigan launched an online Delta iTunes U site this fall.

Tipping Point for "Content"--Dynamic Interaction, Not Static Stuff

11/19/08

The word "content," as used in education, is troublesome for many educators today who see education as a constructivist process, an interaction between knower and learner, and as a student-centered activity.

Bringing Student Web "Stuff" to Campus Enterprise Systems

11/19/08

How can an institution incorporate Web 2.0 learning opportunities for students, and evidence of learning from those opportunities, into existing campus technologies and processes? PlugJam is providing part of the answer.

Microsoft To Add Smooth Streaming in IIS7

11/12/08

Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server. The extension, earlier this month, is called "IIS Smooth Streaming."

Delta iTunes U Enhances Learning in a Familiar Web 2.0 Environment

11/12/08

Students now expect to use interactive, Web2.0 applications in their education environments. As part of a strategy to meet such expectations, Delta College in Michigan launched an online Delta iTunes U environment this fall.

ASU School of Engineering Posts 10,000th Lecture with Mediasite

11/07/08

Students at the Arizona State University (ASU) Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering now have access to more online lectures than any other university in the country, according to Sonic Foundry, the company that provides the Webcasting platform the school uses. The school recently recorded its 10,000th lecture.

Machines are Dumb

11/05/08

The "technology revolution" is mis-named. Instead, we are in a human revolution... humans have learned to think with their fingers, to imagine that a flat screen is really as big as the world, to create new personae for themselves, to expand their social interactions in number and kind, to write and design in new ways, to visualize complex concepts, to find information in seconds, and incorporate that information into a constantly evolving awareness.