Web 2.0: creating a classroom without walls.
This article is about my year-long journey implementing Web 2.0 tools into my teaching practice. The goal throughout my journey has always been to increase my students' intrinsic motivation to learn about science. The Web 2.0 tools I used along my journey were weblogs (blogs) and podcasts. ...

The new media and the (same) old media.
THE MEDIA SCENE continues to develop in fascinating ways. The newspapers, especially the broadsheets, are having a great deal of difficulty in adapting to the development of the internet. Those, like the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, who depend for the bulk of their revenue on classified advertising,...

CARING membership survey summary.
In July 2005, CARING conducted an electronic survey of our membership to gather critical feedback on the status, progress, and future direction of our organization. The seventeen question survey was implemented using an internet-based survey tool available to CARING members to complete during the entire month of July 2005....

Cashing in on weblogs: major media companies are investing in blogs. Is this a new boom or just a bubble?
Back before he started single-handedly defending the U.S.-Mexican border, CNN personality Lou Dobbs was obsessed with an altogether different frontier: space. Perhaps more accurately, Dobbs got momentarily wobbly at the sight of workaday schlubs on far lower rungs of the journalistic ladder becoming paper millionaires overnight by...

Skytide Selected as Analytics Provider for Daytime Emmy IP Broadcast.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-13 June 2008-Skytide Selected as Analytics Provider for Daytime Emmy IP Broadcast(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Skytide, a provider of analytics and reporting for online content, announced that its analytical application for online media will be used by TV Worldwide to deliver the viewership metrics for...

Hurray! Schedules 1Q 2008 Financial Results and Conference Call.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-8 May 2008-Hurray! Schedules 1Q 2008 Financial Results and Conference Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Hurray! Holding, a provider for artist development, music production and wireless music distribution, and other wireless value-added service in China, announced that it will release its financial results for the first...

LSI Industries Schedules 3Q Conference Call.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-21 April 2008-LSI Industries Schedules 3Q Conference Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com LSI Industries announced that it will conduct a conference call at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, April 24, to discuss the fiscal 2008 third quarter operating results. Individuals interested in participating in...

Orbitz Worldwide Sets Date to Host Earnings Call.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-3 March 2008-Orbitz Worldwide Sets Date to Host Earnings Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Online travel company Orbitz Worldwide will host a conference call to discuss the company's financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2007, on March 6 at 10...

Gray Schedules 1Q Earnings Release and Conference Call.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-30 April 2008-Gray Schedules 1Q Earnings Release and Conference Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Gray Television announced that it will release its earnings results for the quarter ending March 31, on May 9. Gray will host a conference call to discuss its first quarter...

Hearst-Argyle Television to Webcast 1Q Earnings Conference Call.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-21 April 2008-Hearst-Argyle Television to Webcast 1Q Earnings Conference Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Hearst-Argyle Television is scheduled to issue a news release regarding its first-quarter results before NYSE trading on Thursday morning, May 1. The Company intends to host a conference call to...