Profile of Ellis Booker
Technology Journalist
News & Commentary Posts: 111
Ellis Booker has held senior editorial posts at a number of A-list IT publications, including UBM's InternetWeek, Mecklermedia's Web Week, and IDG's Computerworld. At Computerworld, he led Internet and electronic commerce coverage in the early days of the web and was responsible for creating its weekly Internet Page. Most recently, he was editor-in-chief of Crain Communication Inc.’s BtoB, the only magazine devoted to covering the intersection of business strategy and business marketing. He ran BtoB, as well as its sister title Media Business, for a decade. He is based in Evanston, Ill.
Articles by Ellis Booker
posted in May 2013
5/31/2013
More than 50% of parents believe schools should make added use of mobile devices in education, new survey finds.
5/29/2013
Why haven't cash-strapped American schools embraced open-source operating systems on the desktop?
5/23/2013
Edubuntu update includes several new packages, including a touch-typing tutor and a mindmapping tool.
5/22/2013
Many of its students are disadvantaged and living in temporary housing, but this New York City school’s computer lab is making strides.
5/8/2013
Coursera teams with publishers to offer some free textbook content to students enrolled in online classes.
5/6/2013
Nine in 10 elementary, middle and high school students believe mobile devices will change the way kids learn, Pearson survey finds.
5/6/2013
Travel giant CWT uses big data science to examine the productivity costs of stressful business travel.
5/1/2013
Coursera and more than a dozen education partners will offer classes for K-12 teachers starting this summer.