Two opportunities for faculty members to learn about emerging technologies this week:
Mobile
Diane Jachimowicz from IT Services gave today’s IT Forum on “A Portable Mashup” (slides in ppsx). Diane compared the iPad, Nook, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, and the brand new Kindle Fire and recommended useful cross-platform apps like Keeper, DropBox, and Evernote. For mobile access to RoyalDrive, she recommended OvertheAir and Office2HD as iOS WebDAV client apps – and she’s posted instructions for connecting to RoyalDrive in the Mobile Device Center. She’s still working on finding a good app configuration for Android access to Royal Drive.
Social Media
TAG member Teresa Grettano (English/Theatre) and Donna Mazziotti (Library) will be presenting on “Facebook, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy” at tomorrow’s Office of Research Services seminar in DeNaples 405, starting a little after 3pm. Their collaborative course, WRTG 284: Rhetoric & Social Media, will run for the second time in Spring 2012.
Thanks for this plug, Kristen! :) And thanks to all of you who came out for our talk!