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Linux based touch screen with optional solar power!!!  Could this be the the answer to affordable technology or is it just a cheap knockoff?

Five trends in K12 education

SLU looking at iPads on campus

Kim has a short list of requirements for a curricular media platform - might be useful to us too.

One of the seminal figures in technology in education, Will Richardson has a great resource on RSS Feeds

List of apps from Marian College (WI) presented at the 2011 Campus Technology Conference Workshops

this prompted me to start a top 10 list of easy ways to use technology to save time.

A national survey released today indicates that a variety of colleges and universities have shown steady improvement in the quality of undergraduate education, as measured by students' exposure to and involvement in effective educational practices.

Found the following quote interesting: "Students whose classes used course management technologies, which provide discussion boards and the posting of notes, readings or assignments, scored higher on NSSE benchmarks, participated more in deep approaches to learning, and reported higher academic and personal gains during college, as did students whose experience included interactive technologies, such as collaborative editing software, blogs, simulations and virtual worlds. "

George Fox University story about a change in their laptop program, moving away from distributing mobile devices to building a better infrastructure

A calendar of educational technology events from around the discipline

The polling and inline MP3 player could be really useful!

Does FERPA ban schools from allowing students to post their schoolwork on the open Web? Yesterday, Georgia Tech deleted all student history and participation from the school's "Swikis," the wikis that students use for their coursework. Georgia Tech has been using wikis for this purpose since 1997, pioneering the usage of the collaborative tools for undergraduate education. One of the features of the school's wikis was that they allowed for cross-course and cross-semester communication. You could, should you choose, remain in a wiki for a class you'd taken previously, for example.

free online methods course for beginning foreign language teachers at the high-school and college levels

"his site is for a three-session faculty development event supported by the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning at Gustavus Adolphus College. The purpose of these sessions is to explore old and new ways of finding information, both web and library-based, as well as to discuss classroom applications, the state of publishing, open access, copyright, and more."

"Startup Kno has begun showing its two-display, touchscreen e-reader designed specifically for higher education use."