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On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist discuss Lafayette’s WordPress MU project, take a look at Bates College’s new WordPress-powered home page, discuss the Google Wave web application, debate the merits of Amazon’s Kindle vs. Barnes & Nobles’ new Nook ebook reader, and talk about an upcoming copyright webinar. Read the rest of this entry »
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On this edition of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley talk about Lafayette’s Election Night Broadcast project and ask for ideas about how to improve Moodle, the college’s open source learning management system. In Tech News, they look at how video games are being used to encourage reading, check out a new ebook reader for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, and discuss new research that claims surfing the web is good for your brain. Finally, in Help News they talk about Adobe’s Kuler web app for picking color palettes and give a rundown upcoming brown bag lectures.
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Hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley kick off this episode of the ITS Coffee Break with a rundown of their summer projects, including the redesign Library web site, a pilot for a new collaborative web site, and the newly-updated iTunes U. In Tech News they take a look at Google’s just-released Chrome web browser and dig for tweets using Twitter’s new search tool.
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