Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Ithaca College is inviting high-school and college students to submit short films for a festival with a catch: The movies must be filmed using only the small cameras that come in some cellphones. Films for CellFlix, as the festival is…

Little over a year ago, iMesh was one of the recording industry’s sworn enemies. But now industry officials are talking up the company whenever they get the chance. That’s because iMesh, once an unregulated peer-to-peer file-swapping program, has gone legit….

Digital rights advocates are up in arms over a proposal, floated by TV and Internet broadcasters, that could restrict viewers’ rights to redistribute televised or Webcast material. The proposal would give broadcasters 50-year rights to any material they transmit, even…

Google has added the initial batch of scanned library books to a searchable index, the first fruits of the company’s controversial partnership with five major research libraries. The company has been scanning books for nearly a year. (The Chronicle, subscription…

The University of Western Ontario earned top marks among large universities in The Globe and Mail’s annual report card of Canadian higher learning, and some professors say the university’s experiments with clickers may have helped its score. A number of…

Public-health workers and emergency responders will be able to hone their disaster response skills using video games being developed by a team at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The games will simulate biological, chemical, radiological, and natural disasters in…

In a conference presentation on Tuesday billed as a verbal shootout, a well-known computer-game designer faced off against a leading instructional designer over how much of an educator’s input is needed to make an effective instructional game. The session was…

In the early 1990s, an online bulletin board created by students at the University of Iowa was among the Internet’s hottest spots: More than 60,000 users would check in to discuss politics, technology, and whatever else was on their minds….

Students whose college careers were interrupted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are flocking to Web-based courses — especially free ones. Sloan Semester, a roster of eight-week online courses offered at no charge by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has enrolled…

A pilot program that lets college students buy digital textbooks from their campus bookstores has gotten off to a slow start. But the company that runs the project says the early returns show at the very least that students are…

Employees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seem to be making use of a fledgling program that makes laptop computers available for loan. The project started earlier this year, when the university’s chancellor used money from a…

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to intervene in a legal dispute between the University of California system and Microsoft. Microsoft had petitioned the court to explain how patent law affects software code on the hard drives of computers that…

Life without a laptop isn’t easy when you’re an undergraduate at Columbia University. But according to the Columbia Daily Spectator, between 10 percent and 20 percent of students at the institution don’t own computers — and for some students, the…