All Blog Posts Tagged 'Google' (10)

Is it possible to live invisibly today?  The social media phenom known as Facebook has truly changed how we interact as a society and although recent surveys indicate we don't like many of the privacy issues surrounding our participation in Facebook  many of us are afraid to give up our newly found connections with friends and family.   We have given Facebook broad permission to broadcast photos to all of our friends, without asking us, at any time. …

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We have completed the move to Google Apps at Casper College and are thus entering a new era of Digital Asset Creation. This is actually my second institution(the first was…

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Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid:  Google Apps for Education

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May 32, 2012

 

Google applications…

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Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid: Why Free is Better Even If you Have a Budget



Developing a strategic road map for open source software and free services, such as Moodle, Open Office and Google Apps for Education is important for higher education.  As budgets are squeezed and software compatibility issues abound, it is time to determine if open source and alternative software services can be strategic tools in the higher…

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"The Hat size of the Nearest Squirrel?”…

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This is a really great article, one of the best I have read lately so I thought I would list a few of the key points, but to think Apple can win without Chutzpah (Steve Jobs) is a bit ludicrous.Apple is big but it is simply not the same without…

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Google is and has been the king of search for years. I remember getting an Google affiliate account for Western Oklahoma State College many years ago when they were just starting their climb to the throne of the Web. As I recall we made...maybe a couple hundred bucks and at that point no one listed them as a verb. Strange how a company name can become part of the fabric of a societies language but it has happened many times with terms such as Kleenex and Xerox. If I use the term… Continue

Thanks to Johnny Jameson who introduced me to this clip.  It is now officially my favorite YouTube clip of all time. 

 

I was just thinking that…

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I was just thinking that as President of the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association I get the opportunity to meet lots of very creative people. During the introductions at the conference I had the opportunity to take this pic with 3 of my favorite Oklahoma Technologists: Left to Right: James Deaton CTO at OneNet,(and author of the Wander Tech Blog) Myself, Lance Ford,… Continue

I was just thinking that I always look forward to the Google's April Fools Gimmickry. They are always funny. This year in an effort to promote an initiative to get super high bandwidth to municipalities who are chosen as test sites by Google. Topeka Kansas changed it name to Google in an effort to gain Google's attention and… Continue