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On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discuss upcoming virtual Moodle brown bags being hosted by CLAMP and take a look at WordCamp NYU.
They then delve into Tech News with headlines about the Unofficial Mars Rover Diary, Twitter’s introduction of a list tool, the social-network measuring tool Klout, Shazam‘s decision to charge for its music-identifying iPhone app, and a unique problem with the Droid smartphone’s autofocus feature.
In Help News, they take a look at the NextGEN photo gallery plugin for WordPress, and announce the ITS workshop schedule for December.
Getting the Podcast
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ITS News
- Upcoming CLAMP Moodle Brownbags
- Code Development Overview, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 2
- Introduction to Redmine, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 16
- Introduction to Version Control, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 23
- Register for the Brownbags.
- WordCamp NYC
- Instructional technologist Jason Alley attended WordCamp NYC, Nov. 14-15, 2009 at CUNY Baruch in Manhattan.
- Web: http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/wordcampnyc
Tech News
- Mars and Me: The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver
- Blog: http://marsandme.blogspot.com
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/marsroverdriver
- Twitter introduces Lists
- Klout
- http://klout.com
- A tool for assessing your social network on Twitter.
- Shazam music-identification app no longer free on iPhone
- Droid’s autofocus problem is due to a rounding error
Help News
- WordPress at a Glance: NextGEN Gallery
- A popular plugin for publishing photo galleries in WordPress.
- Supports slideshow and thumbnail displays, both of which can be inserted into web pages.
- Allows for bulk uploading through ZIP files.
- Instructions on how to use NextGEN Gallery are available on Sites.
- Two potential gotchas:
- Disable the Flash file uploader; it doesn’t work with our secure admin setup.
- Make sure you specify the location of the Image Rotator help app if you want to use the slide show option.
- Two potential gotchas:
- Workshops
- Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: WordPress for academic and administrative Web sites
- Monday, December 14, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. WordPress for personal and organizational Web sites
- Register for the workshops.
Contacting the Show
- We’re always looking for feedback. You can send a comment to itsblog@lafayette.edu or post a comment below.
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