Blackboard — both the creation of courses for the fall, and a new patent lawsuit that the company field against a competitor — dominates the ITS Coffee Break's August 14 edition. The show also has ITS news about the next scheduled network outage and September's big LVIAC Copyright Workshop featuring Kenneth D. Crews. In tech news Ken and Courtney discuss the implications of the Blackboard lawsuit, the social video web site YouTube, the recall of 4.1 million laptop batteries by Dell, and the release of the Firefox 2.0 Beta.
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Show Notes
ITS News
- Blackboard: Request Fall Course Creation Now.
- Scheduled outage
- Wednesday, August 15, from 5AM to 7AM.
- Banner, Novell, and all Network ID-related services (email, soapbox, etc.)
- Copyright Issues of Importance to Educators, Librarians and Other Members of the Academic Community at LVAIC
- Presented by Kenneth D. Crews, J.D., Ph.D., The Samuel R. Rosen II Professor Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, IU School of Library and Information and Director, Copyright Management Center
- Date: September 1, 2006
- Time: 8:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (Registration 8:30-9:00 A.M.)
- Location: Lafayette College, Skillman Library
- Deadline: Aug 28
- http://www.lvaic.org/events.html
Tech News
- Blackboard Patent Suit Against Canadian company Desire2Learn.
- Blackboard was granted 44 patents by the U.S government, and immediately launched a lawsuit against Desire2Learn for infringement.
- BBC: Patent battle over teaching tools
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4790485.stm
- Blackboard: Patents
- http://www.blackboard.com/patent/
- No Education Patents!
- http://noedupatents.org/
- English Translation of Blackboard Patent Claims
- Dell Laptop Battery Recall
- Dell is recalling 4.1 million laptop batteries after one was caught on tape catching fire.
- http://news.com.com/Dell+to+recall+4+million+batteries/2100-1044_3-6105486.html?tag=cnetfd.newssd.right
- Dell Battery Web Site: https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/
- Firefox 2.0 Beta
Help News
- Upcoming workshops include: Learning Objects, Interactive PDF Documents, Creating a course web site in Blackboard, PC Maintenance, Introduction to Microsoft Outlook
- Full calendar: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/pages/calendar/
- Register: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/help/workshop/registration