Last week I attended the HighEdWeb Association 2009 Conference held at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is an annual conference for any higher education web professional…new or maven. Because I attended the conference last year and Sarah Barnes (former OIT Web Coordinator) attended the year before, we found the presentation tracks [...]
Corrupted computer data is not only agonizing to repair but also expensive to fix. It’s important that we protect ourselves from spyware, worms, viruses, and other malware. It’s crucial that we keep up-to-date on the latest news and discussion on computer viruses. A recent New York Times article describes how computer contamination can [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education posted an interesting article yesterday discussing the benefit and logic of digital textbooks. It presents the possibility to read identical material simultaneously rather than purchasing separate expensive copies of the very same thing. We are interested in your comments!
Digital Textbooks Call for New Business Models
by David Wiley
July 8, 2009
In the 1997 [...]
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. [...]
Some “Good Reads” for your Tuesday. Check out these posts and let us know what you think.
I’m often asked what the differences between MySpace and Facebook are and I finally found a post that explains it rather well. I never could really put my finger on what it was about MySpace that didn’t appeal to [...]
Here is a message from the 2009 West Virginia Higher Education Technology Conference committee:
Call for Proposals
The West Virginia Higher Education Technology Conference is now accepting presentation, poster session, and workshop proposals for its September 28-30, 2009 conference at Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa in Morgantown, WV.
This conference brings together experts from all over West Virginia [...]
Sometimes I just come across several posts that I think everyone should take a look at here are a few that I thought were worthy of your attention.
via ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb asks Is Your PC Part of a Botnet? Botnets are a collection of computers that have been compromised by malicious software installed via a trojan or [...]
UPDATE (3/17/2009): EDU Checkup reviewed the WVU College of Human Resources and Education website last week. Listen/watch here: West Virginia University – College of Human Resources and Education – Epsiode #61
Our cadre of communicators regularly attend the WVU Key Communicators meetings every month. Last week was the February 2009 meeting. During that meeting, three colleges [...]
We posted this in OIT News earlier this week, but wanted to make sure you remember to start dialing the area code with each call.
Reminder: 10-Digit Dialing Starts February 28
On February 28, all local calls placed from 293 prefix numbers at West Virginia University must include all 10 digits (9 + 304 area code + [...]
This was posted last week on Wired. It is worth noting because it raises substantial concerns in various sectors. On the university end of things, it would greatly impact storage requirements and require modification of retention policy. It also raises concerns about privacy, although I am not sure in this day and age anyone can [...]
