Many of the new and incoming students this year will get a live IT Orientation presentation during the new student orientation programmes. However, if you missed my talk or want to find out more about some of the great web links that were highlight, the link to my Google presentation is now available. And . . . → Read More: IT Orientation presentation for new students in 2013
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The Faculty of Education is continuing with its expansion of technology in our informal learning spaces for staff and students. goodthink, an internally developed collaborative work environment, works around a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) philosophy and enables anyone with a computer or mobile device to collaborate on a project with others . . . → Read More: New goodthink collaboration areas Article originally posted on Mashable Dropbox has begun to add a two-step verification for all its accounts, the file-hosting service announced on its forums. The process, which is optional but recommended by Dropbox, “adds an extra layer of protection” to accounts by requiring users to submit a six-digit security code in addition to their passwords . . . → Read More: Dropbox two step authentication Around this time of year as our students learn all about their new email accounts and staff begin to prepare for teaching we often see a spike in malicious “phishing” emails. These messages purport to be from some form of authority, usually our local helpdesk and they encourage staff and students to visit a . . . → Read More: Phishing and Facebook With an ever increasing number of staff and students coming onto campus with laptops, netbooks, and wireless-capable smartphones and tablets, there is increasing recognition that cloud-based file management and storage is the easiest way for individuals to synchronise files across multiple devices or collaborate with others. Where previously USB memory drives and email attachments . . . → Read More: Cloud-based file storage and management A position paper was recently released by the National Association of Secondary School Principals located in the US. The position paper can be found at this link (the entire position paper has been pasted in below). It is refreshing to see an organisation of school leaders promoting the effective use of technology (mobile devices . . . → Read More: Harnessing mobile technology in the classroom The following video highlights three very interesting ideas about the future of the book. The move to digital reading and ebooks is happening at a staggering pace and how this technology develops is still uncertain. These ideas where developed by a company called IDEO, an design firm that “takes a human-centered, design-based approach” to . . . → Read More: The Future of the Book In this latest post we wanted to highlight a couple of web tools that might prove useful to those with (and even without) an online component to their papers. The first is a service called PearlTrees, it allows you to visualise teaching content by aggregating bookmarks and links to web-based content, videos and articles . . . → Read More: A selection of web tools for online and/or hybrid courses If you are interested in more information on using and installing Zotero, the free browser-based reference management system, there is now a podcast available on the following Edlinked page: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/IT podcasts. This screencast is ~40 minutes long and goes over some of the basics as well as tips for effective use. It finishes . . . → Read More: Introduction to using and installing Zotero podcast available In the next few weeks the University of Waikato will become a member of the eduroam (educational roaming) network. Eduroam enables staff and students from participating institutions to obtain secure Internet access when visiting other participating institutions around the globe. A useful introductory video (below) provides an excellent overview of this service. If you . . . → Read More: Waikato eduroam access available soon |
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