This week, Jude and Colin discuss ways to understand the lives of undergrads, with an eye towards improving their educational experiences.

This week, Jude and Colin discuss the iPad

Jude and Colin discuss the 2010 CLA-OIT Academic Technologies Showcase, and also briefly discuss the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters conference.

This week Jude and Colin discuss the ways that better machine translation and machine transcription could enable new types of distance learning and cultural interaction. For the article we discuss, visit:

http://magic.economist.com/node/15582327

Apologies for the odd whine in the video.

This week, Jude and Colin discuss the recent spate of articles about professors banning laptops from the classroom. For the Washington Post article that began the recent flurry of activity on this topic, visit:http://z.umn.edu/ea

This week Jude and Colin discuss UCLA's resumption of their streaming program, and the "Unintended Consequences" report on the DMCA. For more information about the UCLA decision, visit:

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/UCLA-Will-Resume-Streaming/21594/

and for the Unintended Consequences report visit:

https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca

This week, Jude and Colin discuss a recent project that Jude was involved with to use Twitter for backchannel discussion/observation in a classroom setting.

This week, Jude and Colin discuss the new Buzz product from Google.

This week, Jude and Colin discuss the recent DOJ ruling on the use of the Kindle in higher education, and the dispute between the Association for Information and Media Equipment and UCLA.

Jude and Colin discuss the brand new Apple iPad.