The other day one of the people in higher ed I follow on Twitter, Jim Groom from the University of Mary Washington, posted a tweet saying they had a webcast of the keynote speaker for their Faculty Academy, James Boyle, online. I checked it out and was really impressed with what he had to say. [...]
XMind is a great mind-mapping app that just went Open Source. It was a $299 purchase. The company loosed this version to the public as it concentrates on a more robust version (XMind Pro), plus a suite of pay services to enhance higher-level uses of the technology.
Wait a minute, you say!
What’s a mind-mapping app?
Glad you [...]
I recently caught a great little YouTube clip called “Wikis in Plain English.” I noticed that one of my work friends (thanks Chrys!) had made it a favorite on Facebook, so I checked it out. This clip was done by the same people who made “RSS in Plain English” that I mentioned here a few [...]
Here are 10 free web-based tools that we’ve been looking at lately. We thought these might be of interest and useful to the WVU community. Check them out and let us know what you think!
Studybulb is a “free online collaborative community for study materials.” The site is stil in beta, but asking students and educators [...]
A colleague here at OIT (thanks, Justin!) just sent this tidbit to me. Adobe is releasing ColdFusion 8 (a.k.a. CF) free for students and educators. This is a really interesting development because previously you needed to own a license to use and learn about ColdFusion. Since open source programming languages (like php and Ruby on [...]
A few weeks ago I was reading on one of my favorite sites, Mashable (a blog about social media technology) about a company called Dimdim. [Here is the article: Dimdim Raises $6M for Open Source Web Meetings]
I thought this was a noteworthy, because while web meeting websites are out there, this one is open source. [...]
In addition to my web development duties here at the Office of Information Technology, I am an adjunct faculty member for the School of Journalism. I’ve been teaching PR319 – Public Relations Editing and Design for the past 4 1/2 years or so. Being inclined to post materials for my students online anyway, I’ve always [...]
