Category: Technology

Using Blogs in the Classroom

Blogs have a great potential for use in the learning environment. An interesting article from Campus Technology gives several ways that blogs can be used to improve student learning. Below is a quick summary of some of the benefits of using blogs as a part of instruction: Blogs can highlight individual contributions more than wikis …

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Faculty Spotlight – Wade Fish

Dr. Wade Fish, Educational Leadership Using Weekly Agenda Videos to Enhance Online Course Delivery Teaching online courses over the years has provided me the opportunity to enhance my teaching as I have seen my skills improve each semester with the incorporation of new technology and best practices. Thanks to online teaching, I am ensured that …

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Technology News Roundup

There have been several bits of interesting technology news this week, so here is a quick round up of articles. Before each one is a short description to help you decide if you want to read more. Windows-based Tablet May Be Too Late: Apple iPad sales are climbing and Microsoft has yet to enter into …

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Toughest Tablet Yet?

Tablets are fragile pieces of technology. Dropping one face down on the ground is asking for a cracked, if not completely destroyed screen. If the reason you’ve been holding off on buying a tablet is durability, your fears are about to be over. Panasonic has created what is likely the toughest tablet on the planet. …

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Adobe Scraps Flash Mobile

Earlier this week Adobe announced that it will stop any further production of it’s Flash Player for the mobile market. And it would appear that Steve Jobs was right when he said that ‘HTML 5 was on the ascendancy and Flash was declining.’ Why It Happened: Basically, the release of HTML 5 is the reason for Flash …

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