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- Education
- Teaching concepts and perspectives. Computer education includes computer systems and information systems. Contrast with training.
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- Is Apple pricing itself out of education?
- Fellow blogger, Robin Harris, wrote an interesting piece on the costly touches to the new MacBooks (design process, LED backlighting, etc.). Steve's history of putting form before function - or price - comes at a particularly bad time. The worldwide economic crunch - heckuva job, Greenspan! -...
- Tags: Education, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, Steve, Netbooks, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Android netbooks? Wouldn't it be loverly?
- Once again, fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has hit on a concept entirely useful to business users, but perhaps even more useful in education. The idea of an Android-based netbook isn't entirely new, Jason hits the nail on the head in his post: What we really should...
- Tags: Education, Developer, Google Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Android, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Diigo for education
- I posted several bookmarks via Diigo on Wednesday. Although I had planned to use delicious, I find the interface to be really kludgy, so I set about looking for another social bookmarking site. Although plenty of teachers in my district post lists of links on their blogs or...
- Tags: Education, Bookmark, Social Bookmarking, Teacher, Diigo, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Higher education key to healthy choices
- There is a correlation between an advanced degree and your willingness to respond to health information. This is a link that needs to be broken if America is to become healthier. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Education, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn, Burlington, Cigarette, Huntington
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Is George Ou right?
- Former ZDNet blogger, George Ou, is always good for a discussion of educational technology. As he wrote on my post yesterday ("Enough already with the Luddite schools"), I'm no luddite and I remember carrying an electric typewriter to a High School English class for a...
- Tags: Education, Software, Social Media, Teacher, Computer, George Ou, Classmate PC, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- 18-29-year-olds with no education least likely to use Internet at work
- 18-29-year-olds with no education least likely to use Internet at workSillyConsidering those with less educaton are likely to work at jobs where there isn't a computer - construction, warehouse, general labour, factory assembly - it really shouldn't come as a surprise they don't use the internet at work.I wonder how...
- Tags: Internet, education
- Discussion threads 2008-11-01
- 18-29-year-olds with no education least likely to use Internet at work
- Employed internet users ages 30-49, those with at least some college education, and those making $75,000 or more in annual income are among the most likely to use the internet at work. Those least likely to use the internet at work include 18-29-year-olds, those with less than a college education,...
- Tags: Education, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?
- Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?Gmail's recent failureis reason enough not to use an external system - no control of your destiny at allhttp://www.itworld.com/saas/56225/extended-gmail-outage-hits-google-apps-adminsControlYou can't always control what happens in-house either. Accidents happen, and stuff breaks. For the price, what can you expect? Some places...
- Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., e-mail, uptime, server, Zimbra, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?
- Information Week featured an article on Yahoo's Zimbra service for email and collaboration in use with educational institutions. While Zimbra, which "already provides e-mail through on-premises software at a number of marquee education accounts, including Stanford University, Georgia Tech, the University of California at Davis, Pennsylvania University, Northeastern, Carleton...
- Tags: Education, Google Inc., Google Apps, Zimbra, E-mail, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Top education search terms in September 2008
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. wikipedia 0.45% 2. dictionary 0.44% 3. dictionary.com 0.13% 4. yahoo answers 0.11% 5. thesaurus 0.09% 6. funbrain 0.08% 7. sarah palin 0.07% 8. online dictionary 0.06% 9....
- Tags: Education, Dictionary, Yahoo, Wiki, Online Communications, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-25
- The "Soft" Topics in Software Engineering Education
- Engineering educators struggle with "Soft" topics - topics which include a social element. Soft engineering topics are distinct from the scientific and mathematical underpinnings of engineering. Students frequently complain when these topics are integrated into engineering curricula. Engineering educators also express concerns that they lack both preparation and ability to...
- Tags: Education, Software, Software Engineering, Engineering Topic, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-10-25
- Social media...dirty word or essential skill?
- Social media...dirty word or essential skill?Striking a balanceInteresting piece. I guess your assertion makes the assumption that we learn ANYTHING at school that is useful in business. If the curriculum does include genuinely useful sales and marketing modules alongside maths and economics, then there is much to be...
- Tags: social media, dirty Word, essential skill, education, job
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- Can the Semantic Web help education?
- Can the Semantic Web help education?a few researchers but no solid examplesI know a few people (especially some professors in the teaching-oriented universities) who are working on this technology. But as far as I know, they are individual experiments and no significant examples so far that are really exciting.Yihong
- Tags: Semantic Web
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- Can the Semantic Web help education?
- Dr Jason Ohler certainly thinks so, and discusses his views in a recent paper and during a conversation that we recorded earlier this week. Both Jason and I struggled to think of examples where educationalists and educational technologists are already working with these technologies, or seriously considering...
- Tags: Education, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Child predators apparently don't use Gmail
- A few years ago, a piece of popular legislation made its way past Illinois lawmakers (including Barack Obama, who voted in favor of it, as well as teacher unions, public health officials, etc.) offering comprehensive education to school children that, among other things, would have taught them to identify and...
- Tags: Education, Google Gmail, Sex Offender, Safety Education, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Education: Driver for a lower-cost MacBook?
- Education: Driver for a lower-cost MacBook?The e-Mac had a short lifeI'm not buying the education argument although it is credible.Marketshare has never been an Apple driver. Technological innovation and leadership.I think we are going to see something that none of us are expecting, something radically new that makes the...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Market-Share, education, MarketShare
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Education: Driver for a lower-cost MacBook?
- The Mac community and fellow travelers are holding their collective breaths until noon on Tuesday when Apple's spotlight will move off of notebooks. While most of the speculation is on what will be introduced -- supposedly a MacBook with a significantly lower price tag -- others are questioning the why...
- Tags: Education, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple MacBook, Quarter, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Notebooks, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- The cloud finally comes to education
- The cloud finally comes to educationSounds promising!Promising initiative. But a lot depends on the ruggedness and reliability of the internet connection. And on the reliability of the server park of this company. I'm very much interested in your hands-on experience with this.One remark on your excellent article: ofcourse those computers...
- Tags: Sounds Promising, education
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Top education search terms in August 2008
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. wikipedia 0.48% 2. dictionary 0.34% 3. fafsa 0.16% 4. yahoo answers 0.11% 5. dictionary.com 0.08% 6. sarah palin 0.07% 7. thesaurus 0.06% 8. bernie mac 0.06% 9....
- Tags: Education, Dictionary, Yahoo, Wiki, Online Communications, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-18

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