ITS Coffee Break #70: Mobile Web, Smart Watches, MOOCs, Faculty Technology Grants

ITS Coffee Break returns from a long hiatus to talk about  the mobile web, a college portal, the “Teaching with Technology” grant program,  Twitter Bootstrap, Massively Open Online Courses, and Dick Tracy-style watches that sync with your smartphone. Continue reading

ITS Coffee Break #63: nextWeb, Following Twitter, WordPress, iPad

On this week’s episode of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discuss the Lafayette College web site redesign and give an update on the college’s WordPress migration. In Tech News they suggest some education-related accounts you may want to follow on Twitter, delve into Facebook’s big privacy changes, talk about Northern Arizona University’s plan to use proximity ID readers to check attendance, and take a look at Apple’s new iPad tablet.

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ITS Coffee Break: WordCamp, Mars Rover Blog, Twitter Lists

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. Continue reading