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BookServer

Dwayne Harapnuik — November 30, 2009 — Leave a comment

Internet Archive: A Future for Books — BookServer via kwout

As the audience for digital books grows, we can evolve from an environment of single devices connected to single sources into a distributed system where readers can find books from sources across the Web to read on whatever device they have. Publishers are creating digital versions of their popular books, and the library community is creating digital archives of their printed collections. BookServer is an open system to find, buy, or borrow these books, just like we use an open system to find Web sites.

Perhaps this system will now provide the necessary momentum to bring the price of books down to near zero or zero which may be the tipping point we need to truly free content on the Internet.

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StudyWiz – K-12 iTouch Enabled Tool

Dwayne Harapnuik — October 7, 2009 — Leave a comment

One of the biggest challenges that we are seeing with K-12 institutions planning to deploy an iTouch solution in schools is that they must highly regulate their learners access to the internet and are not able to use cloud resources like Gmail, Google Apps, YouTube and many of the tools that we take for granted in higher education. To successfully deploy a mobile solution K-12 need to replace or replicate the cloud. StudyWiz may be the ideal solution to do just this. It not only provides an email, file management, document sharing and a communication platform it more importantly allows schools to closely control how students access these resources.

The initial demonstration that I viewed at HandHeld 2009 looked very promising but we now need to look at the product much closer and see if we can use it in the College of Education at ACU to help prepare future teachers who may be facing this tool in the field.

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Microsoft Tablet – A History of Speculation

Dwayne Harapnuik — October 5, 2009 — Leave a comment

Jason Hiner of Tech Republic’s Tech Sanity Check pulls together a wonderful history of links on the speculation over the Apple Tablet. Are we any closer to an Apple Tablet. Was a rumored mass purchase of 10 inch touch screens just that, a rumor, or will we see an Apple Tablet release perhaps in the new year? I won’t speculate but simply point to Hiners article and give you the option to make your own decision.