Educational Technology

UC regents endorse test of online instruction

Seeded on Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:45 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

(07-15) 11:39 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of California Board of Regents reacted enthusiastically Wednesday to developing a fully online undergraduate degree program at the top-tier research institution they oversee, and endorsed a pilot program to test it.

online, education, california, uc, undergraduate, online-education, university-of-california, board-of-regents, undergraduate-degree, u-c

Social networking lures teenagers to internet

Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 5:46 PM EDT (The Age)

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AUSTRALIANS aged 16 and 17 are spending an average of 3½ hours every day on the internet, new research reveals, with social networking the overwhelming favourite reason.

teenagers, technology, internet, social-networking

For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings

Seeded on Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:22 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by Vincent Bartning

College life may look different in the not-so-distant future: Students squinting out dirtier windows, faculty offices with full wastebaskets and no phones, sporting events in which opponents never meet, and paper course catalogs existing only as artifacts of the wasteful old days …

cuts, savings, education, costs, colleges, layoffs, communication, recession, wasteful, frugal

Schools' data to go on the web

Seeded on Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:30 PM EDT (The Age)

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A WEBSITE to allow parents to compare their children's school with other similar schools will be launched this year after education ministers agreed to make a range of school performance and population data public.

schools, education, internet

Australians desert MySpace for Facebook

Seeded on Thu Feb 5, 2009 3:25 PM EST (The Age)

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Facebook celebrates its fifth birthday this week and the company has much to crow about, as new figures reveal the social network has twice as many monthly users in Australia as its nearest competitor, MySpace.

technology, social-networking

How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama's Inaugural Address

Seeded on Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:04 PM EST (davidbergman.net)

Seeded by cp33

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.

politics, images, obama, photography, inauguration

Is That an Emoticon in 1862?

Seeded on Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:42 PM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by cp33

Were they using emoticons back in the era of Abraham Lincoln?

history, president, lincoln, obama, emoticon

The Onion from Jan. 2001: Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'

Seeded on Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:45 AM EST (The Onion)

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Bush concluded his speech on a note of healing and redemption.

bush, white-house, politics, republicans, humor, satire, funny, onion, not-funny

Teens flaunting sex and drugs on MySpace

Seeded on Tue Jan 6, 2009 5:40 PM EST (The Age)

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Christakis said many teens are unaware of how public and permanent Internet information can be, while parents often do not know what their kids are up to. "No one says, "Whoa! Why are you putting that up there?'" Christakis said. In a second study, the researchers identified 19 …

teenagers, technology, myspace, social-networking