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How safe is cloud computing?
"There are many motivations for why an individual or a company would want to engage in cloud computing," said Thomas Parenty, managing director of Parenty Consulting, a Hong Kong-based information security consulting firm. "None of them have to do with enhanced security."
How safe is cloud computing? - CNN.com
Ebooks in Classrooms Aren't an Option: They're Inevitable
The use of ebooks in education is not more widespread because school systems are afraid of change.
Paradise Tossed - Blog - Ebooks in Classrooms Aren't an Option: They're Inevitable
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked to retailers to digital files stored in cyberspace and delivered almost anywhere on earth as quickly and cheaply as e-mail is now underway and irreversible. This historic shift will radically transform worldwide book publishing, the cultures it affects and on which it depends. Meanwhile, for quite different reasons, the genteel book business that I joined more than a half-century ago is already on edge, suffering from a gambler's unbreakable addiction to risky, seasonal best sellers, many of which don't recoup their costs, and the simultaneous deterioration of backlist, the vital annuity on which book publishers had in better days relied for year-to-year stability through bad times and good.
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future - The New York Review of Books
No Ink, No Paper: What's The Value Of An E-Book?
"There will be no inventory. There will simply be digital files and they'll be available world wide at the click of a mouse. This makes much of what publishers now do irrelevant: creating inventory, putting it in the warehouse, keeping track of it, selling it, shipping it. All that's going to go," Epstein says.
No Ink, No Paper: What's The Value Of An E-Book? : NPR
Strategies to recruit, train instructors to use technology
As community college leaders consider the costs of restructuring the academic curriculum and student services to incorporate technology in ways that meet the learning needs and desires of diverse students, they must also consider the recruitment and development of instructors.
Strategies to recruit, train instructors to use technology
Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers
Among all the links and downloads out there, it can be hard for teachers to know which ones work best. Google has made it easier by creating Google for Educators, which compiles some of the search engine's most useful features in one place. Whether you're teaching Spanish or social studies, mathematics or music, there's a free Google feature that will make your lessons more dynamic and your projects more organized. The lively, informative Web site offers step-by-step visual tours and even videos to help you get set up. Below are some of the most useful features the site has to offer:
Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers | Edutopia
March 11, 2010
Four Things Every Student Should Learn
Schools are missing out on important opportunities if they fail to teach these lessons, says ed-tech consultant Alan November.
An awareness of the views of those in other countries, an understanding of how Google ranks the results of a web search, a knowledge of the permanence of information posted online: These are some of the lessons that every student should be learning in today's schools, says education technology consultant Alan November--but not every middle or high school is teaching these lessons.
Four Things Every Student Should Learn ... But Not Every School Is Teaching | The Committed Sardine
Improving Education Through Better Teachers
But what they ignored was the elephant in the room -- if the teacher sucks, the students suck. Or, as the Times more eloquently puts it: 'William Sanders, a statistician studying Tennessee teachers with a colleague, found that a student with a weak teacher for three straight years would score, on average, 50 percentile points behind a similar student with a strong teacher for those years.
Slashdot News Story | Improving Education Through Better Teachers
A Technophobe's Guide to Managing Online Courses
True confession: I've never been a big fan of online courses. My favorite thing about teaching has always been the direct interaction with students and the energy that it generates--what some might call the "performance aspect" of teaching. I'm not sure how that translates over the Internet.
And no, before you ask, I've never taught online. I've never gone bungee jumping, either, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it.
Darren Googles On
Over the past two months I have posted a series of Google-related entries that Darren has posted at Teaching and Developing Online.
Darren Googles On « Virtual High School Meanderings
Series: Cyber School Videos VI
Another edition of the videos that Darren posts at Teaching and Developing Online concerning the Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School.
Series: Cyber School Videos VI « Virtual High School Meanderings
You can't be my teacher!
I am the father that you have been talking about, I am an administrator at an online high school. I did video my son to create a video to start a discussion about the use of technology by teachers. It was directed at my staff who work at the cyber school and it seems to have hit a nerve with a lot of others since it has had close to 10000 hits, some love it, some find it very threating, some think I have abused my son. He is fine, respectful student in a classroom without a computer and I hope that the 20 minutes of feeding him lines did not scar him for life. It is quite obvious that it has worked to start discussion. Thanks all for the comments.
You can't be my teacher! « TeflTecher : Tasks, Videos and Opinions for Tefl Teachers
