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Why IT Departments need a 12 year old on staff
In the later part of the summer in 2012 Google replaced Gmail video chat with Google+ Hangouts. “Unlike the old video chat, which was based on peer-to-peer technology, Hangouts utilize the power of Google’s network to deliver higher reliability and enhanced quality,” explains Gmail team blog post. At Casper College we have been using…
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Lance Ford, Cisco’s Giant Digital Oak, was Planted by Oklahoma’s HB1815
Cisco Systems top teacher training guru is Lance Ford from Howe Oklahoma. Lance has done teacher technology training all over the country from the friendly confines of rural eastern Oklahoma. Lance is what Cisco calls an educational advocate. He knows the ins and outs of video conferencing and he works with teachers across the nation…
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Best Practices for Users to Organize Files in a Google Apps World
We have completed the move to Google Apps at Casper College and are thus entering a new era of Digital Asset Creation. This is actually my second institution(the first was Western Oklahoma State College in 2007) to convert to Google Apps for education so I have a pretty good perspective how users can rapidly become overwhelmed when…
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Are You Ready for the Digital Dark Age?
Data Storage and the Digital Dark Age “Back when information was hard to copy people valued the copies and took care of them. Now, copies are so common as to be considered worthless, and very little attention is given to preserving them over the long term. “(Brandt, 2003) —-Danny Hillis It is a valid concern…
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Are you Ready for the Zettabyte?
NOTE: I have really enjoyed discussing techy stuff with our new Casper College librarian Brad Matthies since he arrived at Casper College and asked him to add his 2 cents to this blog post. He contributed some really great stuff related to the Digital Dark Age section of this post and greatly reduced the…
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What makes an Effective Technology Committee in Education
NOTE: I adapted this work from a Tech Planning Model from a Law Firm for use in an education setting. The link broke where I referenced this and I haven’t yet found it again. If someone sees something similar let me know as the core idea certainly isn’t mine. Working as chair of the technology…
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Improving content inside Moodle: Virtual Puppets, Animated Characters and Avatars in Course and College Communications
Intro The online classroom is still seen by some as lacking the human “connectivity” of face-to-face courses(Kelly)(Vrasidas, and Stock McIsaac 22-36). In an online course we lose eye contact, body language and other non-verbal cues which are available to the instructor, as well as students, in the traditional face-to-face instructional setting. My experience as a…
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Blackboard feels heat from Moodle.. gives a 'free' version
Blackboard has lost some market share to Moodle and Blackboard but they are firing back. Ray Henderson, president of the Blackboard Learn platform mentioned at Educause last week that Blackboard will be rolling out a free version of its latest products, which will be both hosted and supported, directly to teachers. Blackboard’s first foray into…
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Google Trends Analysis of Moodle
Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., about Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time (starting from some time in 2004), and the vertical…
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