http://author.cit.cornell.edu/news/News for students from Cornell Information TechnologiesThu, 26 Nov 2009 13:47:20 +0000CommonSpot Content ServerThe inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, announced a new nonprofit group last week to promote the study of "Web science," arguing that his creation deserves its own specific research focus.http://www.cit.cornell.edu/news/index.cfmWed, 25 Nov 2009 17:16:47 +0000The University of Texas system has agreed to join a growing number of institutions in the InCommon Federation, an organization that makes academic services easily accessible with one username and password per user.http://www.cit.cornell.edu/news/index.cfmWed, 25 Nov 2009 17:27:24 +0000EDUCAUSE announces a new study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009. This year's study includes a special focus on student ownership and use of Internet-capable handheld devices. The full study and more is publicly available to all.http://www.cit.cornell.edu/news/index.cfmWed, 25 Nov 2009 17:59:03 +0000If professors record their lectures and put them online, will students still come to class? Or, does students’ likelihood of skipping class have no correlation with whether a professor decides to capture her lecture and post it the Web.http://www.cit.cornell.edu/news/index.cfmWed, 11 Nov 2009 20:34:47 +0000Academic advisers at the Pennsylvania State University’s online campus are now required to be available for meetings with students in the virtual world every week.http://www.cit.cornell.edu/news/index.cfmWed, 11 Nov 2009 20:28:00 +0000What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an existential discussion on the definition of libraries at the 2009 Educause Conference.http://www.cit.cornell.edu/news/index.cfmWed, 11 Nov 2009 20:31:10 +0000Microblogging in the classroom discussed at EDUCAUSE.http://www.cit.cornell.edu/news/index.cfmFri, 06 Nov 2009 17:51:26 +0000On Sunday, November 1, New York became the 14th state to enforce a ban on texting while driving. A driver text messaging is 23 times more likely to get in a crash than a non-distracted driver.http://www.cit.cornell.edu/news/index.cfmMon, 02 Nov 2009 20:34:57 +0000