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Need To Learn Technology? The ITaP Student Trainers Can Help!
Purdue University offers a lot of great software tools for faculty and students that can be used for course projects. The problem that may arise for faculty wanting students to create movies, graphics, or other deliverables for course projects may simply be that students are not familiar with tools needed to create those items. This [...]
Digital Learning Badges at Purdue
Studio by Purdue is proud to announce Passport, a digital badge learning platform developed here at Purdue University. Passport allows instructors to create challenges that a student can complete to earn badges. Purdue’s Passport platform integrates with Mozilla Open Badges. Bill Watson, an assistant professor in Curriculum and Instruction, was instrumental in the creation behind [...]
Morning Musings: Did Apple just kill the CD?
MG Siegler over on TechCrunch has been chronicling his experience with picking up a new Macbook Air. One of the startling revelations Siegler has proposed is that of Steve Jobs and Apple killing the CD/DVD for the computer industry with the introduction of the USB reinstall drive. The Macbook Air does not come with a built-in optical drive [...]
Morning Musings: FaceTime(beta) now available for Macs! Are you going to use it?
Officially launched yesterday shortly after their ‘Back to Mac’ release keynote, Apple has launched a beta release of FaceTime for Mac computers (Snow Leopard or higher). The popular FaceTime video chat protocol was previously available for iPhone 4 and new iPod touch users with the inception of the front facing camera on the device. FaceTime [...]
Morning Musings: Apple is releasing the iPad on Verizon!
Good news for anyone looking to use the iPad on Verizon’s 3G network! Apple and Verizon have just announced a partnership in releasing the iPad for Verizon Wireless customers this holiday season and bringing an end to AT&T exclusivity of Apple 3G devices. There will be one major difference between AT&T 3G iPad’s and those [...]
Morning Musings: RIM jumps into the tablet world with the BlackBerry PlayBook
Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled their answer to Apple’s iPad; The BlackBerry Playbook. Touted as the first enterprise ready professional tablet, RIM has pulled out all the stops to truly give the iPad and the tablet market a good shakeup. The BlackBerry PlayBook, on paper, looks like the beefier tablet when compared to the [...]
Morning Musings: iTunesU hits 300 million downloads
Launched in 2007, iTunesU has quickly become a leading tool for participating institutions to upload, manage, and share custom course content online. Over 800 Universities around the world have joined Apple to create one of the world’s most popular, and prolific online educational catalogs. In just three years, iTunesU has surpassed the 300 million download mark from [...]
Morning Musings: MS Office 2011 coming soon to a Mac near you!
Microsoft has released marketing materials for their new newest version of Office 2011 highlighting all new features, including the ribbon interface. The newest version of Office will be a step above previous Mac attempts, most notably due to their scrapping of the Entourage email application in favor of real Outlook. For many Mac users this [...]
Morning Musings: Are you having issues with iPhone 4 reception?
Well it looks like everyone in the world, or at least on the internet, is talking about the iPhone 4 and the antenna issues it appears to be having since launch on June 24th. Almost every media outlet, from Mashable to CNN, has been talking about this problem nonstop this since nonprofit advocacy group Consumer [...]
Morning Musings: iPhone 4's Face Time – Are you using it?
The release of the iPhone 4 has come and gone with its typical yearly collection of equal amounts of praise and criticism. With a barrage of user complaints of reception, and screen discoloration, it’s been easy to forget about the new features of the phone. One of the most hyped features was that of real-time video chat of [...]