Campus technology 08: Carolina Virtual World Consortium
Appalachian State faculty (Stephen Bronack and Richard Riedl) presented along with James Witte from Clemson about their joint project called “Carolina Virtual World Consortium” in which the two schools have joined forces to explore many different virtual world spaces for use in education both at Clemson and at Appalachian State.
Qwaq was demonstrated (it’s based on [...]
Campus Technology 08: Keynote Adrian Sanner
This morning Adrian Sanner from Arizona State gave the keynote talk. Sanner is funny and brilliant. He spent the first 30 minutes or so sympathizing with the current state of technology in higher education. It felt a little long and I was eager to get on to his solutions, the plans that he was suggesting [...]
My PowerPoint for Campus Technology 08
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Thank You! or How Twitter Helped Me Change My Life
Not everyone is into social media. Most folks don’t blog or IM or Twitter. In the grand scheme of things, those of us who choose to express ourselves via technology, those of us who choose to develop networks of friends whom we may never meet, are a very small segment of the population. There are [...]
Matel’s steamrollering by Scrabulous: tech hesitance can cost you your business
New technologies can be scary but for businesses the risk of being passed by is too high to be scared off. The best example of late is Mattel’s steamrollering by Scrabulous. Mattel didn’t jump on the opportunity to create an application for Facebook when they could have and Scrabulous did it first with amazing adoption [...]