ASU web applications
UPDATE: Students Encouraged to Help Shape New “My ASU” Page
The popularity of online personalization is beginning to show as the university prepares to release a new version of the myASU page that will merge three popular sites: ASU Interactive, ASU Current Students, and myASU. This will create a one-stop-shop for students to manage their academic life. According to the project website the new site will go live on July 20. Based on student feedback that was collected last May, the University has set out to simplify the online experience for current and potential students…
UPDATE: Blackboard Hearts Facebook
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!For the first time in a really long time, I felt a twinge of excitement that was associated with Blackboard. I was browsing the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog and just read a post that said Blackboard has [...]
ASU Geared Up for Offline Use With Google Docs
I logged into my ASU Google Docs account yesterday morning to a great little surprise. It looks like ASU students now have access to the new offline features of Google Docs.
Google Docs is only the second web application from Google to take advantage of their Gears API (the first was Google Reader back in May). [...]
Fruits, Vegetables, and WiFi - Oh My!
Nutrition majors at the Polytechnic campus, rejoice! While it’s true that Spring Break has come to a screeching halt, there was a wonderful surprise waiting for us today in the classrooms and hallways of the Nutrition building…wireless Internet access.
When I started my nutrition classes last semester, I was peeved to discover that this was one [...]
