One of the smartest administrators I know has a saying that he applies to the work we do in Student Affairs. "Anything good we do will require Collaboration, Cooperation, Coordination, and Communication." The Four C's, as they are known, have become a mantra for professionals in our division. While we don't always succeed in implementing [...]
Our journey to the cloud may be approaching quicker than we think. Recently, TAMU has launched two pilot projects to examine the feasibility of moving all university email to a cloud-based service. The two leading candidates are Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Office 365. None of this should be a surprise to anyone as [...]
When the Mobile Strategy Task Force at the University of Texas issued their recommendations last December, they compared themselves with 30 peer institutions. They placed themselves in the bottom three of existing commitment to mobile support. They rated Texas A&M in the top three and featured A&M’s home page as one of two examples of [...]
I had to chuckle as I read this cartoon from Tony Dunn's blog RedesignLand. View the Whole Cartoon Heheheh.
Over the last year, Technology Services - Student Affairs staff have been testing a variety of tablet devices for ease of use and functionality. Among the devices we have actively tested are the iPad2, iPad mini, HP Envy, HP Elite 900, and Lenovo ThinkPad 2 Tablet. iPad Types The Apple group of products is very [...]
Your friendly IT folks have been feverishly testing Windows 8, the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system. Although we can’t say that it is a desktop operating system. Windows 8 was designed with mobile in mind. […]