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ITS Coffee Break for 11/20/2006
Learning management systems take center stage as Courtney Bentley, Ken Newquist, and special guest Carrie Havranek (Visiting Part-time Instructor in English) talk about augmenting classes with online material in Blackboard, Moodle, and Soapbox. They also discuss recent developments in the popular online world "Second Life" and review the new site search documentation recently added to the ITS site. Visit Soapbox to listen to the episode and view the show notes.
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ITS Coffee Break for 10/30/06
Sophomore Justin Sayde, RA of the Dry Surfers Organization, guest hosts the 10/30 edition of the ITS Coffee Break with Ken Newquist. The podcast begins with a discussion of possible blogging alternatives to Soapbox and an update on the planned network redesign. Tech News features a conversation about the new Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 browsers, news about a Shakespearean massively multiplayer game, and thoughts on the pending release of the PlayStation 3 and Wii game systems. Visit Soapbox to download the episode.
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ITS Coffee Break for Wed, Oct. 18, 2006
Courtney Bentley reports on her recent trip to Educause, including news about Duke's Digital Initiative, work on collaborative learning spaces, podcasting, and a Flash-based economics course. In tech news, Google's acquisition of YouTube and its release of its "web office" product Google Docs and Spreadsheets take center stage. In Help News there's a slew of workshop announcements, including details about the upcoming administrative computer training workshops. Visit Soapbox to listen to the episode and read the show notes.
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ITS Coffee Break for Mon., Oct. 2, 2006
The Libraries' information literacy brown bag leads off this week's ITS Coffee Break. A look at tech news beyond Lafayette finds author Cory Doctorow trying out some alternative methods for publishing fiction; lessons for those afraid of Cascading Style Sheets; news about Sony's new Reader product (for viewing digital books); and a list of higher education podcast feeds. Finally, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley look at ITS' upcoming workshop schedule as well as training sessions for staff and administrators about to receive computer upgrades.
ITS Coffee Break for Monday, Oct. 9, 2006
This edition of the Coffee Break announces the ITS Game Server Survey, which looks at ways to improve network speed for gamers and non-gamers, and discusses the proposed Center for Teaching and Learning at Lafayette. In Tech News, Ken and Courtney look at Kansas State University's new podcasting initiative to make 6,000 class podcasts available to students. In Help News, Ken and Courtney discuss the upcoming "Design and Administer Effective Web Surveys" workshop being given via web conference by Stephen Porter, Director, Institutional Research, Wesleyan University. Visit Soapbox to download the podcast and to view the show notes.
Game Server Survey
Do you game? In order to improve network speed for gamers and non-gamers, ITS is considering a dedicated game server for campus. We want to know if you'd use the server, and if so, what games you'd want to see hosted on it. Take the survey.
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ITS Coffee Break for Sep. 20, 2006
The latest edition of Bytes & Books and the launch of the College Archives Photograph Collection lead off campus news in this edition of the Coffee Break. In Tech News, Ken and Courtney look at applications designed to be loaded onto portable drives, discuss science fiction author David Brin's essay "Why Johnny can't code," and then chat about Microsoft's own Soapbox. In Help News, they announce upcoming workshops on podcasting and support for administrative computing. Visit Soapbox to listen to the show and read the show notes.
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ITS Coffee Break for Tues., Sep. 13, 2006
September's scheduled network outage and news about updates to the Skillman Mac Lab top ITS News in this edition of the ITS Coffee Break. In Tech News, Ken and Courtney discuss Facebook's pending transition from closed to open community, talk about a Wired reporter's recent experiment in community reporting and editing via a wiki, and delve into the war of ratings at Digg.com. Announcements about upcoming Word Basics and Podcasting 101 workshops round out the podcast. Visit Soapbox to get the podcast and read the show notes.
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ITS Coffee Break for Tues., Sep. 5, 2006
Spam is on the menu as Ken and Courtney talk about the new tougher setting available for the Proofpoint anti-spam device and then look at the growing phenomenon of "spam blogs." More details about the Apple and Dell battery recalls, a discussion of Google's new Image Labeler game, news about the Windows Media Player 11 Beta's ability to stream audio and video to Xbox 360s, and information about the early fall ITS workshop schedule fill out the program. Visit Soapbox to get the episode and read the show notes.
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ITS Coffee Break for Mon., Aug. 28, 2006
There's actual coffee with this Coffee Break as Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley talk about their caffeine fix from the newly-relocated Cosmic Cup. In ITS news, there's an announcement about the WW2 Web Server Rebuild Project, and in Tech News they discuss Apple's laptop battery recall and Penn State's new podcast project. Finally, in Help News, they talk about why students may still want an All-LAN cable when wireless is available. Visit Soapbox to listen to the episode and view the show notes.
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