In light of the recent controversy about fraudulent Facebook groups connected to the class of 2013, we thought it might be a good idea to keep up with which groups *are* the official groups connected to WVU.
If you haven’t seen it already, take a look at facebook.wvu.edu a website set up by WVU Web Services. [...]
We’ll be taking a break from blogging next week, so we’ve decided to post some fun services for the holiday season. Hope you enjoy these and feel free to share any other tools or services.
Want to listen to a variety of Christmas tunes at your holiday gathering? Check out Pandora! If you are in [...]
Brad J Ward at Butler University has alerted the Higher Ed community to an alarming development around the creation of Facebook groups for the class of 2013. Apparently several hundred groups for students expecting to graduate in 2013 have been created. That isn’t the weird part. The weird part is that they have all been [...]
FireFox is my browser of choice for various reasons. One of which is the plethora of Add-ons you can install to extend what the browser can do.
FoxMarks is an add-on that allows you to synchronize your bookmarks across different computers. I have my work computer, a laptop and a desktop computer at home. I got [...]
Along with the holidays comes an increase in dangerous emails containing viruses that can destroy the data on your computer or cause it to quit working until it is “cleaned.” Described below are two prevalent viruses that are taking the cheer out of the holidays for many people. (Yes, these viruses have struck many people [...]
The BBC and other news outlets are reporting a serious security flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Users are encouraged to switch to another browser such as FireFox or Safari until Microsoft comes out with an emergency patch.
Serious security flaw found in IE
BBC 09:20 GMT, Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged [...]
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Web-based email, I saw this post today on ReadWriteWeb about student use of email and how they prefer texting.
Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting
Written by Sarah Perez / December 12, 2008
Today’s high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of [...]
Even if younger generations are using it less, we all use email. It still serves a purpose in our 21st Century lives. Our professional lives depend on it. In the early days of the Internet/WWW, having multiple email addresses was uncommon. Many of us were given email at our place of employment, so our work [...]
Paying tuition is a costly endeavor no matter how you look at it. One new website, GradeFund, offers tools to help you raise money for tuition on your own. The catch? You have to get good grades.
According to the website, to get started you:
Create your account
Invite your sponsors
Use our invitation template or craft your own. [...]
The end of the semester is upon us and soon the end of the year as well. This year (it seems to me anyway) has seen an explosion of new online tools and services. I’m regularly impressed with new things I can do online. I thought it might be fun to hear from you.
My List:
Facebook
Twitter
Google [...]
