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Keeping Up With IT Developments In Education?
antgiant writes "I work for a college in the IT department, and I've been having a hard time finding quality resources that cover IT topics with relationship to education. So I ask you: outside of Slashdot, what listservs, newsgroups, fourms, etc. should I be participating in? In particular, I am interested in resources that tend to cover more legal topics such as the now-approved anti-peer-to-peer law."
My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.
Even though it's targeted at K-12, it still has some good info that will also work for higher-ed: http://www.techlearning.com/
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Get a job at a fast food restaurant
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The best organization for higher ed IT is EDUCAUSE (www.educause.edu) -- their mailing lists and their conferences are great. Go to their web site, find some mailing lists in your area of expertise, and subscribe.
--saint
EDUCAUSE and UNISOG are, I believe, public forums. The former is run by EDUCAUSE (www.educause.edu) and the latter by SANS (I think). REN-ISAC is extremely useful as well, but theirs is a closely vetted community and they have very specific membership requirements.
www.educause.edu
chronicle.com/infotech/
http://www.bookstoread.com/etp/
http://ifets.ieee.org/
http://www.adprima.com/ijim.htm
These are just a few scholarly journals to start you out. You might also consider building relationships with distance education experts on your campus as well as library staff.
Sarbanes Oxley compliance will be the be all and end all of your existance if you get into a publically traded company.
Pretty much, the two words you need to always remember are "due diligence". Archive everything down to the smell, taste, and texture of every employee's farts, and use "certified" operating systems/databases/apps. FIPS/Common Criteria/etc don't really mean you are more secure, but it means that you don't go to prison or in front of a civil judge should someone break in.
http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/
http://mfeldstein.com/
http://jimgroom.umwblogs.org/
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/
http://www.teach42.com/
http://metamedia.typepad.com/metamedia/
An academic librarian, who can't remember her login just now
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/
The ACM has a special interest group in information technology education.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
edugeek of course, www.edugeek.net
For an academic look at games in education check out games+learning+society
While it tends to be advertisement laden, I find Campus Technology (http://www.campustechnology.com/) to be useful for keeping up with recent trends.
I get the Wired Campus newsletter digest daily from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://www.chronicle.com
There's also plenty of books out there about technology and/or education. Harry Lewis, the former Dean of Harvard College, wrote one:
http://www.amazon.com/Blown-Bits-Liberty-Happiness-Explosion/dp/0137135599/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224705390&sr=1-1
And I wrote one, myself:
http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html
Aaron
There's www.eduforge.org that's just like source forge only for education. Then there's www.moodle.org which is an outstandingly amazing open source course management web app.
Since the people who are really involved are off at their conference right now, I'll suggest SIGUCCS as something that may be of value to you.
those who are most able to pay handover less than a family of four living off of 40k
Do you really believe that's true? You should take a look at this:
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/november-december-magazine-contents/guess-who-really-pays-the-taxes
I'm not sure who you mean by, "those most able to pay" but if you mean the top 1% of income earners, they make a lot of money, no doubt about that, but they pay a larger percentage of taxes than the percentage of income they earn. They make 20% of income and pay 40% of taxes. You may not think that's enough. I'm willing to debate that, but it's certain not the way you described it.
Have a look at edna .
From the about page:
edna is a network of the education and training community. It includes government and non-government schooling systems, early childhood, vocational and technical education, adult and community education and higher education.
Might be close to what you're after...
Unexpect the expected!
FYI: Income tax is not the only tax people pay. Social Security, Medicare, Property tax, sales tax, DMV etc.
Add them up and the average 40k/year homeowners a higher percentage of their income in taxes than Gill Gates.
PS: I know people hate income tax which is why we have all those hidden taxes but it's all just money and when the government spends it they take it from somewhere.
it's worth checking out SRS's like mnemosyne if you're interested in using IT in education.
I am sorry but total government taxation is more than just income tax. I know it's a shock to some people, but state and local governments frequently operate with zero income tax and yet they still get money. The federal government has a wide range of taxes and many of these tend to collect less as a % from people as they move up the income ladder. Or like SS they just stop asking for more money after you make X.