Broadcasting Dept. Laptop Initiative at Western Illinois University

The Department of Broadcasting at Western Illinois University has completed its first full year of a laptop initiative. This video was produced by broadcasting student Joe Wagener for a senior project in one of his broadcasting courses.
You can learn more about WIU’s Department of Broadcasting at http://www.wiu.edu/broadcasting/

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iPad 3G and the vacancy of the connected textbook

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by Marie Bjerede | comments: 23

Last Friday was iPad 3G day and, at my house, the FedEx truck barely made it out of the driveway before the iconic Apple-designed packaging was discarded on the floor and my iPad was busily synching it’s pre-purchased apps.

For the past couple of years I’ve been pulling out my iPhone and my Kindle in meetings, laying them on top of each other and saying, “There — something like that” when asked what the digital textbook would be like. It was an attempt to convey a fuzzy, absent space in my thinking where a tool should be that could serve as a window to the Internet, to an engaging world of content that invites exploration, and to communities of peers and others that enrich learning. Friday, I finally got to hold a beautifully designed piece of hardware with equally beautifully crafted digital books and learn a little more about the shape and structure of that fuzzy space.

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