Blog Juice for Educational Technology

January 2006 marks an ignominious milestone for computer-security experts and PC users: This month, the world’s first PC virus has turned 20. The virus, called Brain, sounds positively quaint by today’s standards: It was spread by floppy disk and didn’t…

In another blow to Chinese scholars, Google has agreed to censor results on a new version of its search service for the nation’s computer users. Google has, for some time, operated a Chinese-language search engine on an American Web address….

A coalition of journal publishers and research libraries is starting an experimental archive that will hold multiple copies of online journals to ensure that at least one copy will always be available, even if the original publisher goes out of…

Apple Computer will allow colleges to set up customized portions of the iTunes Music Store to distribute course content and other audio and video material. The free service, announced on Monday, will let institutions limit the use of some materials…

A Washington lawyer warned the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Tuesday not to stymie distance education and scholarship as it considers legislation that would prevent the redistribution of television footage. Congress is preparing to draft legislation that would…

Having a computer hacked is never fun for a campus technology official, but it’s especially stressful when the security breach could hit the college in the pocketbook. At the University of Notre Dame, a digital break-in has exposed the personal…

Having a computer hacked is never fun for a campus technology official, but it’s especially stressful when the security breach could hit the college in the pocketbook. At the University of Notre Dame, a digital break-in has exposed the personal…

For months, students at Columbia College Chicago have been buzzing about Wacky Warrick, a Web site that mercilessly spoofs the institution’s president, Warrick L. Carter. In a pair of well-produced animated videos, the site’s anonymous creators lampoon the president for…

A group of academic libraries and corporate partners assembled by the nonprofit Internet Archive is digitizing out-of-copyright books and making them available online at no charge. The project has the backing of Yahoo and Microsoft, and many see it primarily…

Electronic text messaging is booming among college athletics recruiters. Although the NCAA regulates colleges’ contacts with high-school students by telephone and in person, the association has not limited colleges’ use of text messages because it views them as less intrusive…

The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals has rescinded the expulsion of Joshua M. Fellman from Rogers State University, saying the university threw out the former student without following proper procedures. Joshua M. Fellman was kicked off the Claremore, Okla., campus…

Which is the most wired college in the country? It’s too close to call, according to a recent attempt by Princeton Review and Forbes.com to name the most connected colleges. Instead of giving a ranking of the most wired colleges,…

As students and employees of Tulane University settle back into work and study routines, they have somewhere to go when they want to talk about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The conversation, a silent one, takes place in cyberspace. (The…