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Ashley Lee

Cloud Computing Grows Up - Forbes.com - 1 views

  • The Open Cloud Manifesto stresses the following:
  • --Cloud vendors should work together to define open solutions to address cloud challenges like security, integration and interoperability. --Cloud providers should not use their market position to create vendor lock-in. --Cloud vendors should embrace existing standards where they apply, and work together to create new standards where required. --Cloud community efforts should always be customer-driven. --Cloud standards groups need to stay coordinated to ensure there are not competing open standards in this emerging area.
Bharat Battu

India's $35 tablet is here, for real. Called Aakash, costs $60 -- Engadget - 3 views

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    Tying into discussions this week about bringing access to mobile devices to all via non-prohibitive costs, while still reaching a set of bare-minmum technical specs for actual use: India's "$35 tablet" has been a pipedream in the tech blog-o-sphere for awhile now, but it's finally available (though for a price of roughly $60). Still though, as an actual Android color touch tablet, with WiFi and cellular data capability - I'm curious to see how it's received and if it's adopted in any sort of large scale
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    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jkCXZtzqXX87-pXex2nn23lWFwkw?docId=87163f29232f400d87ba906dc3a93405 A much better article that isn't so 'tech' oriented. Goes into the origin and philosophy of the $35 tablet, and future prospects
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    I had heard months ago that India was creating this, but was not going to offer it commercially - rather, just for its own country. Just like the Little Professor (Prof Dede) calculator, when tablets get this affordable, educational systems can afford classroom sets of them and then use them regularly. But to Prof Dede's point - can they do everything that more expensive tablets can do? Or better yet - do they HAVE to?
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    I think this is what they're aiming to do - all classrooms/students across the country having this particular tablet. They won't be able to do everything today's expensive tablets can do, but I think they'll still be able too to do plenty. This $35 tablet's specs are comparable to the mobile devices we had here in the US in 2008/2009. Even back then, we were able to web browse, check email, use social networking (sharing pics and video too), watching streaming online video, and play basic 2D games. But even beyond those basic features, I think this tablet will be able to do more than we expect from something at this price point and basic hardware, for 2 reasons: 1. Wide-spread adoption of a single hardware. If this thing truly does become THE tablet for India's students, it will have such a massive userbase that software developers and designers who create educational software will have to cater to it. They will have to study this tablet and learn the ins-and-outs of its hardware in order to deliver content for it. "Underpowered" hardware is able to deliver experiences well beyond what would normally be expected from it when developers are able to optimize heavily for that particular set of components. This is why software for Apple's iPhone and iPad, and games for video game consoles (xbox, PS3, wii) are so polished. For the consoles especially, all the users have the same exact hardware, with the same features and components. Developers are able to create software that is very specialized for that hardware- opposed to spending their resources and time making sure the software works on a wide variety of hardware (like in the PC world). With this development style in mind, and with a fixed hardware model remaining widely used in the market for many years- the resultant software is very polished and goes beyond what users expect from it. This is why today's game consoles, which have been around since 2005/6, produce visuals that are still really impressive and sta
Britt Harris

When K-12 Moves to the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud - 2 views

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    How will the Cloud Disrupt Education?
Ayelet R

Cloud Program Reduces Bullying -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Dallas ISD uses cloud computing to keep track of bullying incidents in the district.
Stephen Bresnick

Report: Gartner Says Move to Cloud-based Email Slowing -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Interesting report on the slowing move to cloud-basted email. 3 reasons for this are inertia, lack of strategic value and disappointment w/ vendor offerings
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Finland moving towards online education and collaboration with cloud computing > Micros... - 0 views

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    Looking for web-based teaching tools to prepare its students for the future, Kello School in Finland deployed Microsoft Live@edu to give students a rich online learning experience, foster peer collaboration and enable students to work away from school all within a secure online environment.
Robert Schuman

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 1 views

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    A great visual way for generating word clouds; the phsyical size of the word in the word cloud indicates the number of times a word appears in the document provided to Wordle.
Malik Hussain

IBM Launches New Skills Programs - Chief Learning Officer, Solutions for Enterprise Pro... - 0 views

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    Some key training initiatives in cyber security, big data, analytics, mobile, etc. IBM's recent report "found that only 1 in 10 organizations has the skills needed to effectively apply advanced technologies such as business analytics, mobile computing, cloud computing and social business."
Danna Ortiz

Pitt assists startups with education tech focus - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 0 views

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    The Univ of Pittsburg is becoming an ed tech incubator.  They're starting with two products:  SWord a cloud-based peer review program and CE Agent a smart phone app that manages nurses' continuing ed credits.
Maung Nyeu

5 Higher Ed Tech Trends for 2012 -- Campus Technology - 3 views

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    Five trends to watch in 2012: E-textbooks, open resources, online learning. mobile devices and cloud computing.
Maung Nyeu

Marvell Showcases 'Classroom 3.0' Education Technology at CES 2012 - MarketWatch - 2 views

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    Marvell Inc., with collaboration with Stanford University, designed "micro cloud" called SMILE Plug for multi-modal curriculum delivery. The goal is to bring knowledge experts from around the globe to any local classroom.
Carine Abi Akar

Lenovo Acquires Classroom Management, Cloud Services Company Stoneware -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Cross-platform classroom management tools now acquired by Lenovo. Lenovo plans to push it be used also outside of the Education field. Good idea? 
Maria Bueno

Build a School in the Cloud - 0 views

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    Sugata Mitra, from India, designs a school in the Cloud. It is a self-environment that involves broadband, collaboration and encouragement. Kids learn from each other...
Cameron Paterson

Maturity of technologies - 1 views

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    Media tablets, private cloud computing, and 3D flat-panel TVs and displays are some of the technologies that have moved into the Peak of Inflated Expectations, according to the 2010 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle by Gartner, Inc.
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    Interesting to see public virtual worlds in the "trough of disillusionment," poised for "enlightenment," while augmented reality is nearing the "peak of inflated expectations," heading for a crash.
Jeffrey Siegel

5 School Technologies To Watch: Personalized Learning Is Here - Forbes - 1 views

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    This Forbes article mentions the Horizon report that we read earlier for class, plus some emerging trends in ed tech. Talks about games, mobile, and adaptive learning (we have touched on some of these topics in class).
Diego Vallejos

Today's Forecast: Cloud Computing In Education - 0 views

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    Opinion in the Albert Shanker Institute web-page
Bridget Binstock

Data Analytics Tech Opportunities on the Rise - 4 views

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    This article discusses some tech careers and locations of these opportunities. "The results are clear. Mobile computing, cloud computing, social business, and business analytics have gone beyond niche status and are now part of any modern organization's core IT focus," said IBM's Jim Corgel, general manager of ISV and Developer Relations. "IT professionals who can develop the skills needed to work across these technologies will be ready to meet growing business demand in the coming years."
Jenny Reuter

biNu Opens Its Feature Phone Platform To Third Party Apps, Starting With Romance Publis... - 1 views

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    BiNu makes feature phones a little smarter.
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    I'm so excited to see biNu on here, Jenny! I wrote a case study about their technology for a class last year and was blown away how their model of cloud computing could essentially turn "dumb" feature phones into smart phones - and for a fraction of the cost. They've changed their marketing approach and business model substantially since I wrote the case study last fall, but I still see a lot of potential for this type of tech to reach hitherto-unconnected people in the developing world who were still using phones and 2G networks. So interesting, thanks for posting!
Nick Siewert

GPS helps teach Sartell-St. Stephen students important lessons | sctimes.com | St. Clou... - 0 views

  • They hope the high-tech tools will engage technically savvy students.
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      Not even sure this qualifies as high tech any more.
  • “When you get to go outside and learn and observe, it’s a lot better than just reading about it in a book,”
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      From the mouths of babes...
Uche Amaechi

Importing bookmarks from Delicious - 12 views

As I mentioned earlier, I had difficulty importing my bookmarks from Delicious. I sent in a help request and the issue got fixed (sort of). If you were also having difficulty, just keep trying. App...

import support delicious problems

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