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Blackboard upgrade planned for August 15

Blackboard will be upgraded from version 9.0 to version 9.1. During this time Blackboard will not be available. This release includes many new features and time-saving enhancements as well as resolving several known issues to increase overall usability.

For more information on planned sys…

DyKnow Training Tutorials

DyKnow :: Classroom management software that fosters interaction through collaborative note taking, student response tools, content replay, and anywhere, anytime access. Instructors can use DyKnow to transmit content instantly to student screens for annotation and to limit distracting pr…

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EDUCAUSE releases 7 Things You Should Know About VoIP | EDUCAUSE

EDUCAUSE's latest 7 Things issue tackles the 7 Things You Should Know About VoIP...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology that converts voice calls to data packets that travel over the same networks that carry data traffic. With VoIP, users with can make calls via the Internet…

Apple Removes Teaching App From App Store

Apple generally makes news by publishing new apps, not by unpublishing them. But last week, it made some educators upset when it removed an app, Scratch Viewer, from the iTunes App Store.

Scratch Viewer was designed to let educators and others review a child???s work that was created on…

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Practically Speaking

Now this is very cool!

Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb takes a look at Glasshouse, an app that ". . . lets you take data from either a spreadsheet or database query and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world environment where it can then be explored interactively."

The go…

Libraries And Virtual Worlds

If you are interested in what is happening with libraries in virtual worlds check out this post over at Beyond the Job. They have info on two seminars offered by GSLIS at Illinois at Urbana-Champagne as part of their broader Virtual Worlds series.

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