Episode 131 – Summer Plans and Cloud Wars

It’s Friday, April 27th, 2012 and welcome to episode 131 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich.  Welcome Cindy.

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News Items

Facebook buys Instragram - hits 901 million users
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57419864-501465/facebook-grows-to-901-million-instagram-details-in-s-1-filing/

Insta-Rich –dozen employees
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577333840377381670.html

Cloud Wars – Skydrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2972228/cloud-storage-terms-of-service-comparison-avoid-google-drive

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/google-clones-dropbox-lock-stock-and-privacy-gaffe/4870

Ubuntu 12.04 Linux LTS out this month
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-1204-arrives-and-its-great/10836

New versions of Windows 8 – Apple Mountain Lion – Google – Google+ - Office 15

New version of Adobe CS6 – ebooks/EPUB3/iBooks Author

Summer Plans

200+ new computers, laptops, netbooks, iPads, VDI terminals to be replaced this summer for CEPS

New VDI project – Virtual Device Infrastructure BUZ 2445 – VMWare

Active Directory Project – Authentication & security

New ITC staff to get up to speed

Changes to Learning Management System – WebCT to ?

Video Projects – Flipped Classroom – TPACK projects – screencasting – TV style shows
http://tpack.org/

Kindle Fire/Nook/Android tablets

Cindy:

Personal Archiving http://www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/topics_personalpreservation.php

Technology Pick of the week

http://broadbandillinois.org/index.html

http://broadbandillinois.org/maps.html

Map of South-Eastern Illinois Region of Broadband acces (or lack thereof)

http://broadbandillinois.org/Get-it/East-Central-Regional-eTeam/Broadband-Maps-Demographic-Analysis.html

Cindy’s Tech Pick

http://instagr.am/

That wraps it up for episode 131 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.