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Putting Public Service Learning on the Web

Tulane University's Center for Public Service coordinates service-learning courses and experiences among students, faculty, and community partners. This session will describe how a homegrown...

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Improving Project Success Through Software Development Methodologies

Bentley implemented a new software development life cycle (SDLC) process that improves project success by prompting more interaction with end users and IT while also requiring formal sign-offs at...

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Course Views: A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-Based Access to Library...

The NCSU Libraries’ Course Views project, along with a locally developed widget web service, improves course-based access to library collections and services by dynamically generating library course...

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Agile Software Delivery Using Scrum

Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and North Carolina Central University will share experiences in implementing agile development methodologies using Scrum. We will include how we created a collaborative forum...

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Creating Applications for Converged Devices Like the iPhone: Start with a Vision

In response to the video version of ACU's vision for converged media devices like the iPhone, we are using building blocks of Google Apps, a Google SketchUp model of campus, Xythos digital locker, and...

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College Portal Implementation Project

Waubonsee Community College has developed a web-based portal application that provides role-based services for faculty, staff, and students. The college work team developed and designed the portal...

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Don't Outsource, Insource: The Creative Calendar Solution

With electronic mailing lists, multiple department and school calendars, newsletters, digital signage, and post-it boards, how does a campus effectively communicate what's going on? We "insourced" a...

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Creating Custom Online Learning Environments with Drupal

Student collaboration and knowledge building are at the heart of two pilot projects at Penn State and UW–Madison. Learn how these schools use Drupal, an open-source content management system, to...

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7 Things You Should Know About Data Visualization II

Data visualization is the use of tools to represent data in the form of charts, maps, tag clouds, animations, or any graphical means that make content easier to understand. Graphic representations of...

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Sustainable Communities for Software: Variations on a Theme

To drive the development of an incubator and custodian for academic community-sourced software, commitment and motivation need to be established among colleges and universities to support software...

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In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is eliminating a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects and merging it into another program.read more

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Library in Your Pocket: Strategies and Techniques for Developing Successful...

Students are arriving on college campuses with the ability to connect to the web with a diverse array of mobile devices. However, some online services aren’t a good fit for the small screen, and new...

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The Collaborative Partnership and the Profile System: Encouraging...

The Profiles System is a Facebook/Wikipedia-type open-source tool developed by UT Arlington (www.uta.edu/expertise) to capture expertise and resources of the research enterprise. UTA has shared THE...

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Hot Topic Discussion: Application Security and Software Development Life Cycle

One of the weakest links in the information security chain is the application. With the explosion of the web interface within applications, cybercriminals have found more fertile ground. Implementing...

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Creating Interactive Web Applications Using Google Mashups

Universities are constantly looking to add value to their websites by creating interactive applications to provide greater insight into their institutions. The most common example is using Google Maps...

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The Right Tool for the Job: A Tale of Two CMS Implementations

The college or university website is critical to the success of any institution. But with so many content management systems (CMSs) available, how do you determine which is the best fit for your...

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7 Things You Should Know About Agile Development

The “agile” model for software development and IT project management is more about principles and practice than policy and process. In contrast to more traditional approaches, agile is predicated on an...

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Creating Interactive Online and Mobile Resources with HTML5

HTML5, together with CSS3 and JavaScript, can be used to create engaging, interactive learning activities deliverable to both computers and mobile devices, including Android OS phones, iPads, iPhones,...

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Application Security for Management, Project Managers, and Architects

Although Web application security is gradually improving, many project leaders, vendors, and programmers are still unaware of vulnerabilities that can expose confidential institutional data, allow loss...

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Mobile Apps, Mobile Mind?

Last night a young friend’s four-year-old sat on my lap playing on my iPad 2. His mother told me that they had discovered strange charges on their credit card. Yes, little Lyndon had downloaded some...

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