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eduWeb conference - Search Engine Session

Posted by admin on July 31st, 2006

I’m blogging for collegewebeditor.com at the eduWeb conference in beautiful inner harbor Baltimore and thought I would re-post my session notes:
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During the lunch roundtables, I had the pleasure to sit down with Shelly Brown, the Director of Web Services at Southwest Baptist University. Among those attending were my friends from the Vermont Law […]

Can you digg it?

Posted by Drew Olanoff on July 26th, 2006

Digg is a site that a lot of you might not know about, but will soon learn to rely on. I’ll give a basic description of what it is and how to use it. It’s very simple actually.
A user (you) submits a piece of news (by way of link and summary) […]

BlogAbroad is on Fiyah

Posted by Drew Olanoff on July 25th, 2006

Wow. When we started BlogAbroad 2 years ago, we had no idea what it would grow to be. In the 3 seasons that we’ve done this, we’ve had a blogger in Rome during the Pope’s passing, a Philly girl in Japan, and many many amazing stories about studying in another country.
We’ve […]

How does that happen? AKA “What is going on with MySpace”

Posted by Drew Olanoff on July 24th, 2006

Apparently there was a big power outage and a few major data centers were involved. One of those involved were Yahoo, the other MySpace. MySpace is of course the world’s largest website and meeting grounds for people aged 14-114. They were down for 3 days. […]

eduWEB Conference

Posted by admin on July 19th, 2006

I will be attending the eduWEB conference in Baltimore on Monday the 31st and Tuesday July 1st. Is anyone out there going? Let’s meet up!
I’ll be blogging 2 sessions for CollegeWebEditor, so it should be a lot of fun!!!

E-Books (aka saving the trees!)

Posted by Drew Olanoff on July 14th, 2006

Matthew Ulmer wrote a great article over on the EDU University blog about Rice University switching their textbooks over to digital e-books. I think that’s a fantastic idea. It will also cut down on the “I lost my book” issues of yesteryear.
Check it out:
http://blog.edudirectories.com/2006/07/14/the-digital-era-for-books/

Giving your students a yell…or a cell actually

Posted by Drew Olanoff on July 11th, 2006

Check out this story on Yahoo. Some schools are giving their students a cell phone. But it’s not all for fun and games and personal use. They’re using this cell to contact students about class information, and also to track students whereabouts. That sounded scary for a moment, but […]

Radio IS

Posted by Drew Olanoff on July 6th, 2006

I’ve posted about podcasting. I’ve talked a bit about what podcasting is. Well it’s almost time to listen. Next week (After my EDUWebConference experience), our podcast called “Radio IS” will launch. What can you expect? Well, we’ll definitely be talking about technology and education. […]