Author: Oscar Retterer

In an update to its iPhone SDK, Apple is now permitting apps to make VoIP calls over 3G wireless networks, an option that was once only available over a WiFi connection.

{Source: AppleInsider]

Video games offer takeaways that can be used in teaching.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

California computer scientists have developed a system they believe could stop the most common kind of spam from reaching people’s in boxes.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed weeks of speculation about a new tablet computer as he unveiled the company’s latest creation — the iPad.

[Source: USA Today]

Midway through its second year, Abilene Christian University’s mobile learning initiative expands to include classroom management and blogging, with mobile podcasting on the way.

[Source: Campus Technology]

Speakers at the Association of American Colleges and Universities meeting urged institutions to take strong, swift measures to elevate the quality of instruction

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

F&M’s mLearning Project is highlighted in the 2010 Horizon Report:
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/chapters/mobile-computing/#7

The annual Horizon Report, a joint undertaking of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC), identifies six technologies that will be key for teaching and learning in higher education.

While it seems increasingly likely that e-books will one day become the standard in education, California has passed a law to virtually guarantee it — and to set a deadline.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

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Student-run Web sites are offering alternative “news,” ending a traditional campus monopoly on information.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

A welcome new Feature in Mac OSX 10.6 is the ability to set the auto-import options for different applications by using Image Capture with the device you want to set-up – connected and powered on.

[Source: MacWorld]

A team of researchers from the University of Arizona is working on a project to develop an “International Internet Classroom” as a way to centralize information and resources that could be of value to teachers.

[Source: Campus Technology]

Vote for your favorite iPhone (or iPod touch) app! Voting is open through January 31st, 2010.

Vote now …

The 2009 nominees for Best Educational App (in random order) are …

Lev Gonick, vice president for information technology services and chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University, offers a prospective look at the top technology trends in higher education in 2010.

[Source: Inside Higher Ed]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is eliminating a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects and is merging it into another program.

Mellon’s decade-old Research in Information Technology program, or RIT, helped bankroll a catalog of freely available software that includes Sakai, a course-management system used by Stanford University and the University of Michigan; Kuali, a financial-management program recently rolled out at Colorado State University; and Zotero, a program for managing research sources used by millions.

Now the foundation plans to eliminate the RIT program as a stand-alone entity. Mellon described the change as part of an effort to “consolidate resources” and concentrate on core program areas like the liberal arts, scholarly communications, and museums. RIT will merge into the Scholarly Communications program, which will manage its existing grants. Ira H. Fuchs, RIT’s founder, says his position has been eliminated, as has that of Christopher J. Mackie, RIT’s associate program officer.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education – Wired Campus]

Over 70,000 college textbooks on the iPhone (and iPod touch)!

[Source: CourseSmart]

Although e-books have cost and environmental advantages, traditional print books continue to keep a competitive edge.

[Source: converge]

Apple plans to unveil a multimedia tablet later this month, but doesn’t plan on shipping the product until March. The device is expected to have a 10-inch to 11-inch touch screen.

Apple’s Tablet, as imagined by Book Publishers [watch video]

[Source: Wall Street Journal]

If you’re wondering what use Google’s new Wave tool might have for teaching, one online-learning leader has an answer: combining classes from different colleges.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education – Wired Campus]