FAST FIVE for the week of November 4, 2012

Crowd-sourcing ideas for the next CANHEIT conference: This year CANHEIT organizers are asking the community to contribute to the conference content by submitting your ideas and suggestions. The conference will take place June 9-12, 2013 and the deadline for participating in the crowd-sourcing event is November 16, 2012. For more information check this link: Crowd-sourcing CANHEIT

Student innovation drives UTSC mobile app: What2Eat@UTSC is the inaugural winner of the University of Toronto Scarborough College's AppStar competition. The competition awards cash prizes for the best student mobile app software development. There were 13 finalists in the competition, and the list of useful apps reflects the imagination and creativity of the students. More information about the competition is here: Appstar competition and the list of finalist apps is here: Appstar finalists
   
UOIT delivers a mobile service: The University of Ontario Institute of Technology has released a new mobile app for iPhones and Android devices. The app provides campus news, events, course information, and location data. BlackBerry access is not yet implemented. UOIT mobility

The space race is on: University of Waterloo students are leading all other Canadian schools in a competition by Dropbox to earn free storage space for their school: Dropbox Canada Leaderboard

StFX's partnership with Apple: St. Francis Xavier is collaborating with Apple Computer to deploy Apple computers in faculty offices, classrooms, and student labs. Users are offered the choice of running Mac or Windows operating systems on the computers. Teaching and learning projects have benefited from the partnership and support costs are minimized because critical repair requests are below 4% on a five year life cycle. Apples at StFX

Bonus fun news: University of Toronto Mississauga had some special help this Halloween. Building blocks to a better help desk