May 2011 Technology news impacting on Campus Services

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May 2011 Technology in Education news summary

Overseas students facing up to debts California State University and Nature Publishing Group partner to support NPG’s development of affordable interactive textbooks in Biology 43 Things You Should Know About Google Wallet Syracuse Students Launch Web-Based iPad Mag And 48-Hour Magazine Groupon Predicts Half of All Sales Coming From Mobile in Two Years Rivals to Allies: Is Amazon the Secret Bidder for Borders?

Online learning: The necessity and promise Facebook backstabs Google and you lose The Chromebook FAQ Canberra Institute of Technology saves Au$1m a year with managed print services Google To Launch Music Storage Service Google seeds Australian broadband research Budget 2011: ICT spending in the education space Social Media and the Capital Campaign Setting up a library iPad program Facebook Gets Largest Share Of U.S. Online Display Ads Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated

Overseas students facing up to debts Stuff.co.nz May 30 2011 Facebook has helped the Government claw back $2 million in overdue student debt from graduates living overseas.

Latest figures on a campaign to call in overdue debt show that, up to April 30 this year, $818,392 had been paid back by 243 borrowers tracked down by phone calls and letters in the mail....

Full article: http://goo.gl/iPjOC California State University and Nature Publishing Group partner to support NPG’s development of affordable interactive textbooks in Biology Media release: Macmillan.com May 2011 What we stand for California State University (CSU) and Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publisher of the world’s leading scientific journal Nature, have announced a three-year partnership to support design and development

by NPG of an innovative series of affordable, high quality interactive textbooks in college-level science.

The “born digital” textbooks will be used initially at CSU campuses but will be available to other universities from September 2011....

Full article: http://goo.gl/BlI6k 43 Things You Should Know About Google Wallet WebProNews.com May 27 2011

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ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand May 2011 Technology in Education news summary

This week, Google introduced Google Wallet, which could either be representative of the future of how we pay for things and organize our daily lives or a massive bust. Time will tell. In the meantime, we’ve compiled a great deal of information about the product, and what’s known about it before its true launch....

Full article: http://goo.gl/jSAyy Syracuse Students Launch Web-Based iPad Mag And 48-Hour Magazine MediaBistro.com May 26 2011 When Caitlin Dewey found herself disappointed with mobile consumption experiences on most news sites, she decided to make her own. Using the money from a grant from the honors program at Syracuse University, Dewey and two other students — developer Brian Dawson and designer Kuan Luo — created and launched Salt, an iPad magazine, after 120 hours of planning and coding. Fifteen students....

Full article: http://goo.gl/oHbtJ Groupon Predicts Half of All Sales Coming From Mobile in Two Years SocialTimes.com May 20 2011 Mobile devices will be one of the largest drivers for Groupon’s deals over the next few years, according to Michael Shim of Groupon VP Mobile Partnerships, “I believe we could see us doing 50 percent of deals sold/purchased in the next couple of years.”

Full article: http://goo.gl/JC1e4 Rivals to Allies: Is Amazon the Secret Bidder for Borders?

Benzinga.com May 16 2011 As Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings forge ahead for Borders bookstore, a potential bidder for 225 of the brick and mortar stores has emerged – and it very well may be Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN).

While talks remain private, sources have revealed that Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BKS) recently put in an offer to purchase ten Borders locations. It is extremely unlikely that Barnes and Noble could purchase 225 Borders locations given its own current financial woes – in fact, it is basically impossible....

Full article: http://goo.gl/GmUKx Online learning: The necessity and promise The Washington Post May 13 2011 This was written by Renee Hawkins, a 4th/5th grade teacher and Director of Instructional Technology at Garrison Forest School, a nursery-to-grade 12 girls’ school near Baltimore, Maryland, and co-author of the blog The Flying Trapeze . A teacher for 28 years, she has taught in the United States and Japan ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc

ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand May 2011 Technology in Education news summary

and currently lives with her husband in Baltimore County. She is a contributer to a blog called Voices from the Learning Revolution, where educators tell stories about connected and shifted learning....

Full article: http://goo.gl/PBIu1 Facebook backstabs Google and you lose TechWorld.com.au May 13 2011 What does Facebook's anti-Google smear campaign mean for users?

Thanks to an anti-Google smear campaign ordered by Facebook and carried out by a PR agency, the relationship between Facebook and Google is unquestionably broken beyond repair. And that's bad news for users of both services.

The dirty deed sinks the Google-Facebook rivalry to a new low, while highlighting how the giants of....

Full article: http://goo.gl/VDLtL The Chromebook FAQ TechWorld.com.au May 13 2011 One of the big announcements at Google's I/O developer conference is the release of notebooks running the search giant's Chrome OS. What, exactly, is a Chromebook? Is it just like a netbook?

'Chromebook' is the term starting to be bandied around by Google and others to describe the laptops designed to use the Chrome operating system. A netbook refers to a mini-laptop (generally models with up to 10.1-inch displays) with not-too-powerful specifications that runs a regular desktop....

Full article: http://goo.gl/Jju7O Canberra Institute of Technology saves Au$1m a year with managed print services FutureGov.asia May 12 2011 The Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) has cut costs and increased the environmental sustainability of its printing operations by using Managed Print Services (MPS) ....

Full article: http://goo.gl/7uuTs Google To Launch Music Storage Service MediaBistro.com May 10 2011 Google has a new music storage service in the works for Android users called Music Beta.

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ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand May 2011 Technology in Education news summary

The Google site explains more: “Music Beta is a new service from Google that gives you instant access to your personal music collection without the hassle of wires or syncing. Add your music collection and listen on the web or any compatible Android device.”

Full article: http://goo.gl/5usrG Google seeds Australian broadband research ITNews.com.au May 12 2011 Google Australia has provided seed funds for University of Melbourne researchers to develop "new broadband applications and services".

The money provided under the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society's industry partner program, would be made available in amounts of $30,000 to $70,000 with a view to developing innovative broadband solutions, especially in the areas of health, education, e-government and....

Full article: http://goo.gl/hXdhf Budget 2011: ICT spending in the education space Computerworld May 10 2011 Industry heavyweights weigh in in the lead up to tonight's budget The Gillard Government must allocate funding to entice students into studying IT and educate older Australians about technology, the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) have claimed....

Full article: http://goo.gl/WzV7q Social Media and the Capital Campaign Academic Impressions May 05 2011 During the recession, many institutions scaled back their campaign goals and timelines, but as donors begin to bounce back (a new study (subscription required) finds that 4 in 5 donors intend to give as much if not more to nonprofits in 2011 as they did in 2010), some institutions are considering more ambitious efforts. For example, the University of Colorado has just launched its $1.5 billion capital campaign (although without a projected finish date) ....

Full article: http://goo.gl/WXeSc Setting up a library iPad program College & Research Libraries News April 2011 Briar Cliff University is a Catholic Franciscan institution of roughly 1,100 students, served by the Bishop Mueller Library’s staff of four full-time employees and a dozen student helpers. Over the past several ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc

ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand May 2011 Technology in Education news summary

months, we have been looking at many ways to proactively help our patrons become more comfortable with new technology, such as ebooks, ebook readers, PDF annotation software, and mobile interfaces....

Full article: http://goo.gl/94ncp Facebook Gets Largest Share Of U.S. Online Display Ads AllFacebook.com May 04 2011 And that share makes Facebook the leading player in the online display market as measured by comScore AdMetrix.

The research company tallied almost 1.11 trillion display ad impressions in the U.S. during the first three months of 2011, and Facebook had 346 billion of them, or 31.2 percent....

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