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Roland Gesthuizen

Surface: Is it 'Microsoft's iPad', or something else? | ZDNet - 0 views

  • Who would have thought starving partners of support would yield bad results?
  • For me, the Surface is a "Wordbook", a new device form-factor for running Word in ultra-portable, cloud-connected mode that also happens to be one degree away from a market ready post-PC tablet.
  • Does the market actually want a device that runs Office first, and does all the other tablet tasks second? Hardly.
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    "Now that I actually own an Surface, it's clear to me what it's about. Spoiler: it's not an iPad."
Roland Gesthuizen

Linux News: Community: LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, Part Deux - 0 views

  • "If you are like me, you prefer LibreOffice over (Apache) OpenOffice because (1) It has a better open source license. (2) It has more community support. (3) It is more rapidly developing and releasing updates," the post innocently begins.
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    Indeed, with 325 active committers over the last 12 months, LibreOffice is now the third-largest free software project listed on Ohloh focused on the development of a desktop application, Behrens said, following only Firefox and Chrome.
Roland Gesthuizen

Keep yourself safe online with our cyber safety tips - Legal & General - 0 views

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    ".. social networking is putting social media users at risk of falling victim to increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals. To highlight some of the key findings from the Report, we've created a series of infographics, (images and key facts),  and a video below"
Roland Gesthuizen

Could facial recognition technology destroy 'redundant and bankrupt' passwords? - 0 views

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    Remembering complex passwords could be a thing of the past if facial recognition technology takes off - but is it as secure as a password and does it work?
Roland Gesthuizen

How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic - Technology Review - 0 views

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    ""Invisible" servers let governments quietly intercept and modify their citizens' online communications."
Roland Gesthuizen

Professional Learning | Digital Learning News - 1 views

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    "The Digital Learning Branch provides advice and manages a comprehensive suite of digital systems, tools and resources to support schools design and deliver contemporary curriculum and enhance outcomes for students. The key focus of the Branch is to influence schools to leverage the potential of investments in digital technologies, and embed their use into school practice."
John Pearce

The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Another great article about the perils of working within this online world, a world where our online identity can live linger than our memory.
John Pearce

PublicationShare - eLearning Expert Speaker Professor Curtis Bonk's New Distance Learning Book The World Is Open, Dr. Bonk is a Web 2.0 speaker, and a Learning technology speaker - 0 views

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    ""The goal of this site is to provide interesting and relevant articles in online learning." - Curtis J. Bonk" This is the archive of Curtis which includes links to a sample of his publications.
anonymous

Education Article :: 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers - 1 views

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    "It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects-not to mention your social life-time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time."
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    "From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar"
Roland Gesthuizen

Kno ships educational tablets - The Inquirer - 1 views

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    "Kno has started shipping its single-screen and dual-screen 14.1-inch touchscreen Linux-based tablets. Unlike other mass market tablets they will mostly be sold as text book e-readers that are targeted at the educational market with web browsing and note taking support." "
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    Interesting tablet computer although probably too pricy and heavy.
Roland Gesthuizen

iPads growing more common in classrooms | The Crimson White - 0 views

  • The use of iPads would encourage students to collaborate and teach each other rather than submitting to the traditional transfer of knowledge from professor to student in order to learn
  • iPads will begin to change the way professors envision and conduct lectures so that the “sage on the stage” approach of a professor dictating knowledge to students will be replaced with a collaborative method of teaching
  • “With the tablet computing initiative, we want to develop or identify early adopters of this technology, to ‘plant the seeds’ of innovation and, eventually, mainstream this and future technologies into our school and teaching,”
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    ""Technology is central to how we learn and how we communicate," Florence said. "This is an initiative to allow faculty to experiment with how tablet computers can help improve and expand their teaching.""
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    News report that examines how a tablet computer can help change classroom teaching.
Roland Gesthuizen

Mozilla | Firefox web browser & Thunderbird email client - 0 views

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    The Firefox browser is created by Mozilla, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web.
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    Good, fast browser that works great with addons.
Roland Gesthuizen

1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015 - 0 views

  • the success of the iPad has fueled the consumption of digital content in general. But the iPad has also spawned a number of new digital textbook companies
  • Washington State's Open Course Library project, a program that aims to make core college materials available on the Web for less than $30 per class
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    "we have reached the tipping point for e-textbooks, and the Xplana predicts that in the next five years digital textbook sales will surpass 25% of sales for the higher education and career education markets."
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    Interesting to read the move to make core college materials available on the web for minimal cost.
John Pearce

Keeping up e-ppearances: How to bury your digital dirt - tech - 23 February 2011 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    "Thankfully, there are ways to restore your online reputation. While you might think that reducing your internet presence is the way to go, you'd be wrong. The key to managing your reputation is to spend more time online, not less. The advocates of this approach argue that polishing your online persona could soon join healthy eating and exercise in your arsenal of everyday life-maintenance chores. So how exactly do you go about it?"
seth kutcher

The Best Remote PC Support I Ever Had - 1 views

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Roland Gesthuizen

Hayastan Shakarian Cuts Internet Cable In Georgia - 0 views

  • Hayastan Shakarian, 75, severed a fibre-optic cable on March 28, shutting off the information highway in much of Georgia and all of Armenia for several hours. The cable ran parallel to a railroad track in eastern Georgia where she was allegedly scavenging.
  • "The incident forces our company to think about diversifying our channels."
  • Tbilisi, said that she had only been collecting firewood. "I have no idea what the internet is,"
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    "An elderly Georgian woman who allegedly shut off internet services in her country and neighbouring Armenia while scavenging for copper cable is facing charges that could lead to three years in prison. In an interview the woman tearfully insisted she was innocent and said she had never heard of the web."
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    Interesting disaster recover planning case study.
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