Diana Oblinger is a big name in education both in US and internationally. She has been a good educator, successful EDUCAUSE president, and the author of several books. You can read about her achievements in the EDUCAUSE press release.
Category Archives: Events
Gmail is 10 today!
Google’s Gmail was launched on April 1st, 2004. And it was revolutionary, offering 1 gigabyte of storage (to compare: Hotmail offered 2 megabytes). So, what made Google and its Gmail so successful? Read this Time post.
Will you take a knowledge pill?
Seriously…
MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte kicked off TED 2014 with a brave prediction that in about 30 years time we’re going to be able to ingest info taking a knowledge pill. Any takers????
You can preview the full list of TED 2014 speakers at http://conferences.ted.com/TED2014/program/speakers.php
Open Education Week 2014 (OEW 2014) Ended
There were many events happening last week to celebrate the global open education movement. OEW website provides free access to a wide variety of presentations and resources related to the open sharing of educational materials. Additionally, please checkout Inside Online Learning website devoted to this great initiative.
Happy 25th Birthday, WWW!
Yes, World Wide Web was invented in March 1989. Spiegel Online International published an interview with www father, Tim Berners-Lee, who with his team invented various protocols and standards associated with the Web. If you want to learn more about Internet history, preceding events, and future developments, please visit this post.
NU celebrated Safer Internet Day
February 11, NU celebrated the Safer Internet Day. It was a great success. Many thanks to all participants and attendees. We collected over 650 signatures for the NU Cyber Security Pledge. Stay tuned for pictures and reports!
Sochi 2014 Olympic Games eResources
Let the strongest win! We all be cheering for our athletes as the Games start today. Incorporating e-resources about Olympics into learning and teaching might make concepts you discuss in social sciences, history, math, physics, and engineering relevant, educational, and fun! Checkout these resources and share your favorite with us.
February 5 is the Digital Learning Day
It is a relatively new event. It will be celebrated only for the 3rd time this year in the United States. The main idea is to give “every child the opportunity to learn in a robust digital environment everyday, with the goal of success in college and a career”. We need to introduce this day (and concept) here in Kazakhstan as well. Happy Digital Learning Day!
Data Privacy Month
Data Privacy Month is Jan 28-Feb 28. It is our responsibility to promote good digital citizenship, raise awareness of our students and colleagues, and introduce good practices in our growing University in terms of student records, our own webpresence, financial, health, and research records. I collected some resources and made them available at my diigo collection. “Respecting Privacy, Safeguarding Data, Enabling Trust” is this month motto!