Emergency

It May be Time to Brush Up On Your Campus Emergency Plan

A shooting on campus is every higher education employee’s worst nightmare.
There was an interesting post in yesteday’s Wired Campus about the University of Alabama at Huntsville’s emergency alert system.
Last week, there was a shooting on their campus and sadly, three faculty members were killed, two other faculty members and one staff assistant was injured in [...]

Emergency

5 reasons to move your hosting off-campus

For many of you out there, this past weekend was your commencement ceremony (or ceremonies, depending on your school’s size). Ours was sadly inside due to inclement weather, and it was the last for our current president, who is not exactly retiring but moving on to be closer to family. He’s has done great things [...]

Emergency, Hosting

Jott – the next killer higher ed web app?

Ok, I’m late on the Jott bandwagon, I know, but I tried out the service today and it’s got me thinking about how we can use Jott in higher ed.
What’s Jott? Jott is, at its core, a speech to text transcription service. You call into Jott and leave yourself, or anyone you set up as [...]

Emergency, Jott