Courtney Bentley reports on her recent trip to Educause, the education technology conference, 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.
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Show Notes
ITS News
- Things Courtney heard about at Educause:
- Duke Digital initiative
- Let the technology drive the project and innovation
- Add mic adapter to iPods to do student projects, interviews, record service learning, foreign language exercises
- About moving special projects to phased support
- Strategic moves
- Collaborative learning spaces
- Digital video
- Podcasting
- Video conferencing
- Mobile computing – tablets
- Clickers
- Univ of North Carolina at Greensboro – econ 201 an online game for college credit
- 8 week, Flash-based game that is for Principles of Microeconomics credit
- Development guided by Dr Jeff Sarbaum, prof of econ
- The game has eight levels, each focusing on a fundamental economic concept– there are three main “quests” in each level. Students will be required to ‘pass” a series of skill assessments before being allowed to move to the next level.
- http://econ201.uncg.edu/dcl/econ201/
Tech news
- Google buys YouTube, Google Launches Docs and Spreadsheets
- CNET: Google Buys YouTube
- Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- Google's "web office" applications lose their beta status.
- http://docs.google.com/
Help News
- Administrative Training Workshops
- Google & Lafayette Workshop
- Workshops Calendar: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/pages/calendar/