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Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary

Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary

ƒ OneMinuteNews Targets Generation Y with Bite-Sized Videos, Interaction

ƒ Publishers Fight OverDrive On Library eBook Distribution
ƒ Social media and research workflow (pdf)
ƒ WikiLeaks Clone Takes On Higher Education
ƒ NBN to go live in Armidale in April
ƒ Digital Education Revolution broadly on track
ƒ New class of whistleblower sets site on universities
ƒ With Google’s One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade
ƒ Google undercuts 'shortsighted' Apple as publishers rebel
ƒ First Facebook SIM Card Released
ƒ Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education (pdf)
ƒ Mobile app puts a university campus in your hand
ƒ 2011 Horizon Report (emerging technology impacting on higher education)
ƒ New smart card a credit to university
ƒ Students queue online, instead of in line
ƒ Email Drives More Traffic To Retailer Websites Than Social Media
ƒ NSW Liberals seek specialist unis to restore IT
ƒ Google Collaborates with International Museums, Launches ‘Art Project’
ƒ Facebook Begins Listing Deals On The Site
ƒ foursquare Invades Campus - Every Campus
ƒ New Google Docs features ease organization
ƒ Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated

OneMinuteNews Targets Generation Y with Bite-Sized Videos, Interaction

MediaBistro.com
March 01 2011

Got a minute for the news? OneMinuteNews, which, as the name suggests, offers one-minute news bites
on-demand to Web and mobile users, will make its debut Tuesday.

OneMinuteNews content will consist of trending and breaking news, lifestyle, entertainment, sports,
personal finance, and technology. The site was developed by veteran media executive....

Full article:
http://goo.gl/qE4Nm

Publishers Fight OverDrive On Library eBook Distribution

MediaBistro.com
February 25 2011

Last month OverDrive launched the ability to check out library books with your phone, which is available
on various devices including the iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry and Android-based devices. But some
publishers are not happy about....

Full article:
http://goo.gl/Xhvyf

Social media and research workflow (pdf)

CIBER, University College London Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
February 2011

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WikiLeaks Clone Takes On Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 23 2011

Dear University Leaders: You might want to think twice before clicking “send” on your next e-mail.

WikiLeaks, scourge of governments worldwide, now has a copycat for academe. And the new group is
itching to publish your university’s deepest secrets.

Its Web site, UniLeaks, debuted this month with a pair of open letters to university leaders in Australia....

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http://goo.gl/Crc7c

NBN to go live in Armidale in April

TechWorld.com.au
February 23 2011

NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, has confirmed Armidale will be the first mainland site to go live
with the NBN, with the switch-on date slated for April.

Quigley told the audience at the Broadband and Beyond 2011 industry conference in Sydney that....

Full article:
http://goo.gl/8TEb1

Digital Education Revolution broadly on track

Delimiter.com.au
February 18 2011

The Federal Government’s auditor yesterday revealed Labor’s $2.2 billion dollar Digital Education
Revolution was well placed to deliver one computer to every student in Years 9 to 12, by the end of
2011.

The DER is a project started by then newly-elected Labor Government in 2007 which aims to change
both learning and teaching practices across all educational institutions in Australia....

Full article:
http://goo.gl/L8k17

New class of whistleblower sets site on universities

The Age, Australia
February 18 2011

THERE is WikiLeaks. Now there's UniLeaks - a student-run version of the whistleblower website aimed at
the inner workings of universities.

The site, which launched this week, received thousands of visits in its first few days....

Full article:
http://goo.gl/2sj9A

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Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary

With Google’s One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade
PaidContent.org
February 16 2011

Included in the announcement of Google’s long-expected One Pass paid content system for publishers is
news that two more U.S. newspaper chains are planning to put up online paywalls at some of their
newspaper sites this year: Media General....

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http://goo.gl/Opv3q

Google undercuts 'shortsighted' Apple as publishers rebel

The Sydney Morning Herald
February 17 2011

Google has moved to undercut Apple in app subscriptions as Apple faces a backlash from publishers
for being too restrictive and taking too big a cut of revenue.

Google will only take a 10 per cent cut of digital content sales and share subscriber information with
publishers on its Android phone and tablet platform....

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http://goo.gl/QjohG

First Facebook SIM Card Released

AllFacebook.com
February 14 2011

Every GSM cell phone will soon have Facebook built right in, as Gemalto has created the first SIM card
including functions related to the social network.

A spokesperson for the social network confirmed the development in via email....

Full article:
http://goo.gl/havAz

Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education (pdf)

Academic Impressions

- Making Informed Investments in Social Media

- Marketing and Recruiting with Social Media
- Social Media and Student Learning: Moving the Needle on Engagement
- Social Media for your Advancement Operation
- Managing the Risks of Social Media....

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http://goo.gl/b5yih

Mobile app puts a university campus in your hand

Ragan.com
February 07 2011

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Technology impacting on education: February 2011 news summary

Texas Tech’s app provides the campus community info on class times, bus routes and more—and it’s not
finished yet.

Say you’re looking for a place to eat on a university campus. It can be a complicated process just to get
some lunch. Where is it? When is it open? Where can you board a shuttle that....

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http://goo.gl/KvnXt

2011 Horizon Report (emerging technology impacting on higher education)

EDUCAUSE
February 2011

Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant
impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of
emerging technology cited for 2011 are....

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http://goo.gl/oPWU2

New smart card a credit to university

The Canberra Times
February 09 2011

The introduction of new smart cards at the University of Canberra, allowing students to pay for various
on-campus goods and services, has been met with wide acceptance and little criticism.

Director of Civil Liberties Australia Tim Vine said the university's roll-out of the new technology had
been....

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http://goo.gl/VHKn7

Students queue online, instead of in line

Melbourne Times Weekly
February 08 2011

MELBOURNE University’s arts centre hopes to free up its students’ time, with virtual queues taking the
place of real-life line-ups. In an Australian first, the Parkville university has begun using QLess – an
online tool that allows students to join a queue and hold their place in line by....

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http://goo.gl/aNoz6

Email Drives More Traffic To Retailer Websites Than Social Media

WebProNews.com
February 06 2011

Email offers retailers better results

Traditional marketing provides a better return on investment (ROI) for retailers than social media,
according to a new report from ForeSee Results....

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NSW Liberals seek specialist unis to restore IT

ComputerWorld.com.au
February 04 2011

Shadow education minister Adrian Piccoli flags potential R&D labs should Liberals win March election

The NSW Liberal party will seek to establish specialist IT and science centres at the state’s universities in
a bid to attract and retain attention as a lucrative centre for development and investment....

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http://goo.gl/6G6p4

Google Collaborates with International Museums, Launches ‘Art Project’

MediaBistro.com
February 02 2011

Thoughts of Walter Benjamin‘s famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
aside, yesterday Google launched Art Project, an online gallery holding a collection of art compiled
across seventeen high-profile museums, ranging from London’s National Gallery to New York’s MoMA....

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http://goo.gl/qetEg

Facebook Begins Listing Deals On The Site

AllFacebook.com
February 01 2011

Want to know what all the Deals are in your area? Facebook is listing some of them in geographic
regions via a new deals overview page.

While not a comprehensive listing of all deals, it’s definitely an interesting feature and....

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http://goo.gl/ah7k9

foursquare Invades Campus - Every Campus

MediaBistro.com
January 31 2011

foursquare is enrolling in college — every college, worldwide. The location-based mobile app
announced on its blog that foursquare university badges can now be activated on every campus
throughout the world. The blog post read....

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http://goo.gl/6sSPl

New Google Docs features ease organization

TechWorld.com.au
February 01 2011

Google has overhauled the document organizer within Docs, making it even better for business use.
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Google rolled out a handful of improvements to Google Docs on Monday that make it an even more
compelling business tool.

This time the changes focus on the document overview window that appears when you first access
Google Docs. Up until now this has merely been an area where documents could be....

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