Last week the department of Information Technology and Communication at the University of Virginia released a memo announcing the closing of most of the computer labs in the university over the course of the next couple of years. The reason? In their survey of incoming freshmen for the class of 2012 the found that all [...]
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I’m spending some time tonight going through my open Firefox tabs that I’ve been babysitting for the last couple of weeks and posting the best ones to the blog here. One that I picked up somewhere along the way was a link to a conference for 1-to-1 laptop initiatives in Memphis, TN from the 19th [...]
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This past Saturday I attended the 2008 ICe COLD Mini-Conference in Lisle, IL. It was a three hour, three session conference with what I’d estimate to be between 30 and 40 attendees. At $5 for non-ICE member and $3 for members, it was a bargain. The first session I went to was on using Wikis [...]
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