May, 2006

The Edutech Report - May, 2006 - Full Issue PDF
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Why the New Media and Technologies Matter
By Thomas Warger
For as long as computers have served as media platforms, faculty have experimented with new instructional opportunities. What is new and remarkable now is the shift to student involvement in media development. In many cases, faculty require this expansion of student skills through the class assignments and instruction they give or arrange in conjunction with their teaching. But there is a growing trend for students to initiate the foray into audio and video, approaching faculty for permission to include them in written work and, occasionally, in place of written work.

Quotes of the Month
Open source software, designing effecting learning spaces

Newsbriefs
Kuali Test Drive, .edu Domain to Contiue Under EDUCAUSE Management

The Intentional CIO
By Linda Fleit
It is so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day business of managing campus information technology. It is a fast-moving environment, fraught with large challenges and difficult hurdles. It involves machines, people, and scarce resources, not to mention the politics of it all. Managing IT can be so consuming that CIOs can sometimes forget that their real job is to be a leader. But the leadership of the CIO may be the very thing that the institution needs most in order to fulfill its own goals and aspirations.

Edutech Responds
E-mail as a way to communicate with large numbers of people, classroom display technology, ERP costs