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Vicki Davis

Gearing up for Another Flat Classroom Project « Haas | Learning - 2 views

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education learning flatclassroom edu_trends bestpractices www_world

shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experienc
  • Yet, as Vicki Davis quipped at the beginning of the project, “The thing about working on the bleeding edge is sometimes you bleed.”
  • The reality of asynchronous communication that is at times messy and requires patience was not quite as exciting as they were hoping.
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  • Already, the combination of my experience, having already completed a similar project, as well as the degree of preparation and maturity of this project is a great advantage. I
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09
     
    Fred Haas' reflections are so very real when it comes to ambitious global collaborations. I had to laugh as he said about NetGenEd (last spring's project): "Without question it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experience." The learning curve is TREMENDOUS but once you have it under your belt it is similar to your first year of teaching or boot camp for someone in the military. If you're wondering if this sort of thing is for you, take a read of Fred's very real reflections. Julie nor I NOR ANY global collaborator will ever say it is easy - if it is perhaps you're not having to be as engaged as perhaps you need to be. However, it is most rewarding!
Hayes G.

Google Prepping iTunes Competitor [REPORT] - 2 views

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pln whsb google

shared by Hayes G. on 14 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • plans to take on Apple and Amazon with its own MP3 store that will open in the next several weeks and accompany its Google Music Beta service, according to a report.
Jamie D

Blurb Launches Beautiful ebooks for the iPad - MarketWatch - 0 views

www.marketwatch.com/...ebooks-for-the-ipad-2011-10-18

education workflow_software

shared by Jamie D on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jamie D on 20 Oct 11
     
    "Until now most self-published authors wanting to create a visually rich ebook had to hire a software developer to produce it, costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars and taking many weeks. With Blurb's new ebook offering, the file conversion happens automatically in moments, and costs just $1.99 per download, saving Blurb authors considerable time, money and frustration. "
  • Jamie D on 20 Oct 11
     
    This shows how authors that wanted to create a self enriched book would have to hire somebody to do it but now with the changes in their workflow software they can now do it for just a cost of $1.99.
Kendall Butler

President and CEO Trace Devanny Becomes TriZetto Chairman, Builds on Firm's Healthcare ... - 0 views

www.marketwatch.com/...nto-provider-market-2011-10-19

science_health outsourcing

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  • Kendall Butler on 19 Oct 11
     
    ""TriZetto has great employees, an agile solution set, and an unparalleled customer base in the healthcare payer and provider markets," said Devanny. "In the months and years ahead, we will build on this strong foundation to help healthcare organizations meet new challenges with new, world-class, technology-enabled solutions. We will continue to actively listen to our customers, letting their voice drive our capabilities, and become a much broader healthcare information-technology company. We will leverage TriZetto's unique assets and capabilities to transform connectivity and collaboration between health plans, providers and consumers. By helping integrate what has been a historically fragmented healthcare industry, TriZetto will help improve the efficiency, cost and quality of healthcare across our country and abroad." To realize this vision, Devanny has stressed five key areas of investment and organizational focus at TriZetto: -- Voice of the Customer, TriZetto's systematic approach to engaging its clients in a strategic dialogue to take customer service and satisfaction to a new level. -- Enterprise Software Solutions, a broad portfolio of flexible and scalable systems to help healthcare organizations improve efficiency and respond quickly in an evolving market. -- TriZetto Advantage Services(TM), comprehensive hosting, business process outsourcing and professional services to help customers meet key business objectives more quickly and with less risk. -- Systematic Health Management(TM), TriZetto's unique approach to population health management that helps customers improve the cost and quality of care. -- Payer- Provider Connectivity, to drive improved efficiency, productivity and collaboration between healthcare payers and providers. "
Jamie D

HP Delivers Improved Productivity, Versatility with New Wide-format Graphics Systems - ... - 0 views

www.marketwatch.com/...at-graphics-systems-2011-10-19

workflow_software

shared by Jamie D on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jamie D on 20 Oct 11
     
    ""As the leader in industrial wide-format graphics, HP is helping customers transition from analog to digital printing and take advantage of higher value pages to further grow their businesses," "
  • Jamie D on 20 Oct 11
     
    This shows how some company's are helping customers switch from analog to digital printing.
Jamie D

Great Payoffs From A Workflow Software - 0 views

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workflow_software

shared by Jamie D on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jamie D on 20 Oct 11
     
    " The term workflow in workflow software actually refers to the tasks, personnel, procedural steps, required information as well as the various tools that are needed for the steps that the business has to take in order for it to become successful."
  • Jamie D on 20 Oct 11
     
    This is a great definiton of workflow. It explains everything it refers too.
Bryson P

How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows | Fast Company - 0 views

www.fastcompany.com/...google.html

google flatclassroomproject fcp11-3 mcahs

shared by Bryson P on 20 Oct 11 - Cached
  • scott summerlin on 20 Oct 11
     
    On Tuesday morning, January 21, the world awoke to nine new words on the home page of Google Inc., purveyor of the most popular search engine on the Web: "New! Take your search further. Take a Google Tour." The pitch, linked to a demo of the site's often overlooked tools and services, stayed up for 14 days and then disappeared. To most reasonable people, the fleeting house ad seemed inconsequential. But imagine that you're unreasonable. For a moment, try to think like a Google engineer -- which pretty much requires being both insanely passionate about delivering the best search results and obsessive about how you do that. If you're a Google engineer, you know that those nine words comprised about 120 bytes of data, enough to slow download time for users with modems by 20 to 50 milliseconds. You can estimate the stress that 120 bytes, times millions of searches per minute, put on Google's 10,000 servers. On the other hand, you can also measure precisely how many visitors took the tour, how many of those downloaded the Google Toolbar, and how many clicked through for the first time to Google News. This is what it's like inside Google. It is a joint founded by geeks and run by geeks. It is a collection of 650 really smart people who are almost frighteningly single-minded. "These are people who think they are creating something that's the best in the world," says Peter Norvig, a Google engineering director. "And that product is changing people's lives." Geeks are different from the rest of us, so it's no surprise that they've created a different sort of company. Google is, in fact, their dream house. It also happens to be among the best-run
  • Bryson P on 29 Oct 11
     
    Info on the expansion of google company
scott summerlin

Official Google Blog: Do you "Google?" - 0 views

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  • scott summerlin on 21 Oct 11
     
    Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog Team Q: What do zippers, baby oil, brassieres and trampolines have in common? A: No, the answer isn't that they're all part of the setup for a highly inappropriate joke. In fact, the above list (along with thermos, cellophane, escalator, elevator, dry ice and many more) are all words that fell victim to those products' very success and, as they became more and more popular, slipped from trademarked status into common usage. Will "Google" manage to avoid this fate? This year has brought a spate of news stories about the word's addition to the Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English dictionaries, an honor that's simultaneously highly flattering and faintly unsettling. Consider, for example, this passage from a New York Times story published last May: "Jim sent a message introducing himself and asking, 'Do you want to make a movie?'" Mr. Fry recalled in a telephone interview from his home in Buda, Tex. 'So we Googled him, he passed the test, and T called him. That was in March 1996; we spent the summer coming up with the story, and we pitched it that fall.'" Now, since Larry and Sergey didn't actually launch Google until 1998, Mr. Fry's usage of 'Google' is as distressing to our trademark lawyers as it is thrilling to our marketing folks. So, lest our name go the way of the elevators and escalators of yesteryear, we thought it was time we offered this quick semantic primer. A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device that identifies a particular company's products or services. Google is a trademark identifying Google Inc. and our search technology and services. While we're pleased that so many people think of us when they think of searching the web, let's face it, we do have a brand to protect, so we'd like to make clear that you should please only use "Google" when you're actually referring to Google Inc. and our services. Here are some hopefully helpful examples. Usage: 'Google' as noun referring to, well, us.
Michelle L

Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society - Issues - Outsourcing in America: Overview - 0 views

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mhs-1 fcp11-3 worldstudies outsoucing

shared by Michelle L on 24 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Outsourcing is the practice of hiring workers not employed by a company to do that company's work
  • Outsourcing can happen on a small scale
  • in recent years, the term "outsourcing" has usually meant sending work overseas
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  • Business-process outsourcing (BPO) is one of the fastest-growing areas of outsourcing, particularly in China
  • The cost of living in non-Western countries is much less than it is in the United States or most European nations
  • Outsourcing does have some disadvantages
  • Outsourcing is a constantly evolving field
  • moment is for Indian companies to take on high-level jobs that require creativity and language skills such as research and design, while China takes the low-level BPO
  • The most controversial aspect of outsourcing is the fact that it seems to threaten the supply of good jobs in the U.S.
  • Americans dread outsourcing
  • Michelle L on 24 Oct 11
     
    Outsourcing in America
Vicki Davis

21st Century Learning Mobile Learning Devices | Verizon Business Tools - 0 views

www.vzwbusinesstools.com/...rning-devices-in-the-classroom

mlearning wireless_connectivity

shared by Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 11
     
    HEre is the information on Verizon's website about the St. Mary's case study with downloadables and a video. You know there are many options for 1:1 programs - and ipads and netbooks aren't the only two. Take a look here and balance the decision.
TaylorJ j

Resource #2 - 0 views

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information_change

shared by TaylorJ j on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • The first computers, constructed during World War II, employed radio valves, which were switched on and off to represent binary digits. But soon thereafter, the semiconductor was invented; it used much less electricity and thus did not overheat so easily, and it was sturdier. (V. Ramamurti, an Indian scientist, believed that the semiconductor was invented because the Allies feared the loss to Japan of India, the Allies' prime source of mica, which was essential to the making of radio valves.) Technological development of computers and of their multifarious applications has since been driven by the progressive reduction in the size and cost of semiconductors.
  • The first computers in the 1940s were as big as a house; by the 1960s, however, miniaturization of semiconductors had made it possible to create computers that were no bigger than a small room. At that point, IBM began to make a series of standardized computers; its 1620 and 360 series of mainframe computers found users all over the world, including India. The Indian government imported a few computers from the Soviet Union, especially EVS EM, its IBM 360 clone; but they were not popular, even in the government establishments where they were installed. IBM computers dominated the market. They were used for calculation, accounting and data storage in large companies, and in research laboratories. Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software producer, was established in 1968 to run the computers acquired by the Tata group and to develop uses for them.
  • By the 1980s, computer chips were becoming small enough to be embodied in almost portable minicomputers, and these were getting cheap enough to be used in small businesses. Manufacturers began to build into minicomputers a selection of programs that performed the most common operations, such as word processing, calculation, and accounting. Over the 1980s, the mini-computers shrank in size and weight and were transformed into personal computers (PCs). Indian agents who sold imported minicomputers and PCs also employed software engineers for sales assistance and service. Thus, in the latter half of 1980s, Indian software engineers were scattered. Some worked in CMC; others serviced the surviving IBM machines in companies, government establishments, and research facilities; and still others serviced minicomputers and PCs.
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  • By 1985 satellite links made the export of software possible without having to send programmers abroad. At that time, however, the Indian government did not allow private links, so Texas Instruments gave it the equipment, which it then proceeded to use from its Bangalore establishment. IBM, which wanted to set up a link in 1988, ran into the same problem: the government insisted on retaining its monopoly in telecommunications, the rates offered by its Department of Telecommunications were exorbitant, and it was inexperienced in running Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) links.
  • In 1991 the Department of Electronics broke this impasse, creating a corporation called Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) that, being owned by the government, could provide VSAT communications without breaching its monopoly. STPI set up software technology parks in different cities, each of which provided satellite links to be used by firms; the local link was a wireless radio link. In 1993 the government began to allow individual companies their own dedicated links, which allowed work done in India to be transmitted abroad directly. Indian firms soon convinced their American customers that a satellite link was as reliable as a team of programmers working in the clients' office.
  • In the 1980s, an importer of hardware had to get an import license from the chief controller of imports and exports, who in turn required a no-objection certificate from the Department of Electronics. That meant going to Delhi, waiting for an appointment, and then trying to persuade an uncooperative bureaucrat. In 1992 computers were freed from import licensing, and import duties on them were reduced.
  • Satellites and import liberalization thus made offshore development possible, with a number of implications: It enabled firms to take orders for complete programs, to work for final clients and to market their services directly. Work for final clients also led firms to specialize in work for particular industries or verticals: it led in particular to India's specialization in software for banking, insurance, and airlines. It gave India a brand value and a reputation.
  • The late 1990s saw a surge in the Indian IT industry. To assure potential clients of their permanency, Indian software companies built large, expensive campuses, where they made working conditions as attractive as possible, to help them retain workers. Trees grew and streams flowed inside buildings, and swimming pools, badminton courts, meditation rooms, auditoriums, and restaurants were provided.
  • The IT boom in the United States was the source of India's software exports.
Veronica Rohach

How Google Is Taking Over the World - Mobiledia - 1 views

www.mobiledia.com/...174543.html

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  • Veronica Rohach on 28 Feb 13
     
    This article outlines the way that google is spreading everywhere; even in places like North Korea.
kelsy lysek

College Is Dead. Long Live College! | TIME.com - 1 views

nation.time.com/...3

education virtual_communication

shared by kelsy lysek on 01 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Rocket Surgeon on 01 Nov 12
     
    An article about free online college courses. Yeah, I'm totally going to take one of these.
  • kelsy lysek on 01 Mar 13
     
    This article discusses virtual classrooms and the benefits it has for students.
dakota barvian

Trevon Lee - How Workflow Software Can Enhance Productivity and Communication ? - 0 views

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workflow_software

shared by dakota barvian on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • dakota barvian on 24 Oct 12
     
    Workflow Software can enhance productivity and communication by its ability to utilize all concepts and manipulate data automatically. This can take the load off of a single human being by completing the process for the person trying to manage data or specific work. As for this project, I feel good about the final result.
Rick Macioce

Google change 'breaches EU law' - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-17205754

google taking over the world information_change pln

shared by Rick Macioce on 06 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Roger Crider on 06 Mar 12
     
    1 March 2012 Last updated at 10:00 ET The new privacy policy is rolling out around the world on 1 March Changes made by Google to its privacy policy are in breach of European law, the EU's justice commissioner has said. Viviane Reding told the BBC that authorities found that "transparency rules have not been applied".
  • Rick Macioce on 20 Mar 12
     
    The new privacy policy is rolling out around the world on March 1st. Changes made by Google to its privacy policy are in breach of European law, the EU's justice commissioner has said. Viviane Reding told the BBC that authorities found that "transparency rules have not been applied".
Riley F.

Outsourcing the future | ASU News | The State Press | Arizona State University - 0 views

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outsourcing

shared by Riley F. on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • But students would be thrown if they received a term paper back that said, “Graded in India.” Unfortunately, this is a developing trend in university classrooms. Professors at various universities around the country outsource workers in India, Singapore and Malaysia to grade students’ papers.
  • “[Outsourcing grading] is occurring in large online classes,” Archambault said. “Universities are increasing online programs for a variety of reasons, including the flexibility to students, and it allows students in remote areas to take classes. But the university also is able to offer larger class sections and save money on overhead costs.”
  • We should not run education like a business. Cutting corners by allowing anonymous individuals to grade students’ papers and relying heavily on online classes is not a recipe for success.
Tori N

SpeEdChange: Social Networking and Education-as-we-know-it - 1 views

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education technology social networking

shared by Tori N on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • social structure made of nodes
  • interdependency
  • The resulting structures are often very complex."
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  • large [positive] changes to educational methods
  • become a ubiquitous part of many students’ lives.
  • Students have been empowered to publish not just their best work, but the many drafts it takes to get there.
  • Ubiquitous social technologies help us connect to those who can help us learn when we're outside the domain of formal education.
  • authority is a flexible idea.
  • social network changed day-by-day, even when participants were much the same
  • Tori N on 20 Oct 10
     
    How social networking can change the way things are taught.
BAILEY P

IL Toolkit - Virtual Communications: Introduction - 0 views

www.doncio.navy.mil/...VirtualComm_Introduction.htm

virtual_communication rlhs

shared by BAILEY P on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Definition of Virtual Communications Virtual communications encompasses a broad spectrum of concepts, technologies and practices that are central to our daily lives. In our society today, we can now communicate with a friend or co-worker in another country or continent instantaneously. We can earn a college degree or take continuous learning classes online with the click of a few buttons. The proliferation of information and communication tools, like e-mail, instant messaging and Internet telephony has revolutionized the way we work and live. How we use the technologies, such as email and collaboration tools, can influence the quality of the work we do and can determine our ability to function as a high producing, high performing workforce. Virtual communications facilitates the ability to know and understand how to access and share information electronically and is a portal through which a world of limitless learning opportunities exist.
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