http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:54:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wired Campus: International Universities Release Content on iTunes U - Chronicle.comThis week ten universities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia began sharing educational content on iTunes U. http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/06/05/wired-campus-international-universities-release-content-on-itunes%c2%a0u-chroniclecom/ Reviews: The Ultimate Cheap Camcorder Battlemodo (via Gizmodo of course)"Ever since the world caught wind of the Pure Digital Flip cam's success, super-cheap digital pocket camcorders have sprouted up everywhere. With everyone and their mother trying to become the next Lil Show Stoppa or Soulja Girl, people need a cheap ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/06/05/reviews-the-ultimate-cheap-camcorder-battlemodo/ Wired Campus: 3 Visualization Projects Point to the Future of Scholarship in the Humanities - Chronicle.com "Turning historical and social-science data into pictures could help scholars identify new patterns in old records, according to researchers who gathered at George Mason University this weekend for a conference on technology in the humanities.At ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/06/02/wired-campus-3-visualization-projects-point-to-the-future-of-scholarship-in-the-humanities-chroniclecom/ Wired Campus: New Online Video Game Teaches Students Chinese - Chronicle.com "A professor at Michigan State University has created a free online video game to help students learn Chinese.The multi-player role-playing game, Zon/New Chengo, allows users to choose Mandarin phrases to converse with other characters in the game about exchanging money, ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/23/wired-campus-new-online-video-game-teaches-students-chinese-chroniclecom/ Beta Beat: New York Times Reader Now Available for Mac http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/23/beta-beat-new-york-times-reader-now-available-for-mac/ Musopen puts classical recordings, scores in public domain "Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want to include a Beethoven sonata as background music in your wedding video, documentary, or indie feature film? You'll ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/22/musopen-puts-classical-recordings-scores-in-public-domain/ ODF wins the office document format war? | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-22 | By Neil McAllister, PC World Microsofts backpedaling on support could have something to do with its current regulatory troubles in Europe and with the standards bodies that govern OOXML By Neil McAllister, PC World May 22, 2008 "Good news for ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/22/odf-wins-the-office-document-format-war-infoworld-news-2008-05-22-by-neil-mcallister-pc-world/ Can OpenOffice 3.0 finally replace MS Office? | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-16 | By Preston Gralla, Computerworld "If you think that you always get what you pay for, the just-released beta of OpenOffice 3.0 should convince you otherwise. This free, open source software suite provides most of what anyone could ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/17/can-openoffice-30-finally-replace-ms-office-infoworld-news-2008-05-16-by-preston-gralla-computerworld/ Apple: Music Video Is Complete Mac OS X Leopard Tour via Gizmodo http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/14/apple-music-video-is-complete-mac-os-x-leopard-tour/ Hello everybody! Welcome to the 2008 Summer Laptop Program! http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/12/welcome/ Beta Beat: OpenOffice 3.0 Beta Now Available, Adds Native OS X Support Windows/Mac/Linux all platforms: OpenOffice.org, the free office application suite, has released a beta of its 3.0 version to the public with a few key features rolled in. The biggest update is native support for Mac OS X platforms, meaning ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/08/beta-beat-openoffice-30-beta-now-available-adds-native-os-x-support/ Maxtor 500GB OneTouch™ 4 External Hard Drive $89.99 at Staples® Everyone needs a backup hard drive.  At $0.18 a Gigabyte, this is one of the cheapest I've seen so fare.  If you get frisky, add $10.01 in filler and user the $25 off $100 coupons that are floating around right now, ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/06/deal-maxtor-500gb-external-hard-drive-8999-at-staples%c2%ae/ Wired Campus: A Class Blog Studies Fair Use - Chronicle.com A professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law has created a nifty blog for students to hash out a debate about a fictional copyright-infringement case. http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/05/01/wired-campus-a-class-blog-studies-fair-use-chroniclecom/ Wired Campus: Publisher Compares Wikipedia to Oxford English Dictionary - Chronicle.com "Over at the Oxford University Press’s blog, OUP publisher Niko Pfund paid Wikipedia the ultimate compliment: He compared it to the Oxford English Dictionary." http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/04/11/wired-campus-publisher-compares-wikipedia-to-oxford-english-dictionary-chroniclecom/ Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » “Overthinking” and other insights into the current state of education In an earlier post, I mentioned that as an anthropologist I like to pay attention to clichés as little insights into the current state of education. I pointed out that the often-heard lament that ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/04/05/digital-ethnography-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-%e2%80%9coverthinking%e2%80%9d-and-other-insights-into-the-current-state-of-education/ Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain) "The journalist in me has been avoiding this post (too navel-gazing, too self-absorbed), but the blogger in me can’t help it. Media is changing—how it is produced and how it is ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/03/31/six-months-in-and-600-posts-later-the-worlds-of-blogging-and-journalism-collide-in-my-brain/ The New Yorker: The News Business: Out of Print Out of Print The death and life of the American newspaper. by Eric Alterman http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/03/31/out-of-print-the-death-and-life-of-the-american-newspaper/ Wired Campus: Curbing Bad Student Behavior Online - Chronicle.com There is a growing sense that bad student behavior online—pirating music files, posting drunken photos on their Facebook page, passing along malicious gossip about other students on the Web—has roots in earlier childhood, when they were not taught that, even online, there ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/03/29/wired-campus-curbing-bad-student-behavior-online-chroniclecom/ 10 Millionth Article Written on Wikipedia The ten millionth article has been written on Wikipedia - a Hungarian biography of of 16th century painter Nicholas Hilliard http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/03/29/10-millionth-article-written-on-wikipedia-via-techcrunch/ Wired News - AP News "The newsroom is increasingly being seen as the most experimental place in the business" http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/03/17/wired-news-ap-news/ I don't know what this has to do with laptops or educational technology, but... How To: Inoculate Kids Against Advertising Lisa made her kids impervious to advertising by asking pointed questions that forced them to think about the source and truthfulness of ads. She knew action was needed when when her kids, ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/03/09/how-to-inoculate-kids-against-advertising/ WordPress: The Social Network Can WordPress become the basis of a social network? Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg hinted today on his blog that WordPress might go in a more social direction. He announced a new hire, Andy Peatling, the developer behind BuddyPress, a social network built on top ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/03/04/wordpress-the-social-network/ Slashdot | Web Videos Show Off the Wonders of Chemistry Timmy writes "Wired Science has picked ten of the best videos from YouTube and their own show on PBS to highlight the wonderful things chemistry can do. Only four of them involve fire or explosions. The rest range from music ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/03/03/slashdot-web-videos-show-off-the-wonders-of-chemistry/ swissmiss: Smoothly navigate and analyze the most recent Democratic Debate http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/02/23/swissmiss-smoothly-navigate-and-analyze-the-most-recent-democratic-debate/ Wired Campus: Will Open-Access Publishing Free Enslaved Academics? - Chronicle.com Is the movement toward free and open access to published material a human-rights issue? Richard Smith says it is. The former editor of the British journal BMJ is on the Board of Directors of the Public Library of Science, a ... http://blogs.dalton.org/laptopprogram/2008/02/23/wired-campus-will-open-access-publishing-free-enslaved-academics-chroniclecom/