Podcast: Download (Duration: 22:11 — 20.5MB)
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.
Getting the Podcast
- Download the MP3 directly
- Subscribe to podcast rss feed using an aggregator (you only need to do this once; subsequent shows should download automatically)
- Subscribe to the podcast feed via Lafayette’s iTunes U
Show Notes
ITS News
- Project nextWeb
- The Lafayette Web Site is being redesigned! Check out the progress and submit your feedback at the Project nextWeb site: http://sites.lafayette.edu/nextweb
- WordPress Migration
- The WordPress migration is proceeding full steam ahead. Many sites from WW2 have been moved or will be moved in the next few weeks. Remember — WW2 goes away at the end of June.
- WordPress 3.0: It’s coming, it’s cool.
Tech News
- Follow Friday (Higher Ed Edition)
- Bryan Alexander (@BryanAlexander): Technology savant at NITLE; science fiction aficionado, best beard in Vermont.
- Lafayette College (@LafCol): Yep, Lafayette’s on Twitter now too.
- Project nextWeb (@Project_nextWeb): Follow the progress of the Lafayette Redesign online.
- Facebook Privacy Changes
- You’re opted into EVERYTHING so you can “like” the Internet, and it can “like” you back.
- CNET: How Facebook is putting its users last
- High-Tech attendance system
- Northern Arizona University set to install proximity ID reader systems in classrooms to check attendance.
- AZCentral.com article
- Apple iPad
- Our thoughts on Apple’s new tablet computer/appliance.
- http://www.apple.com/ipad/
Help News
- Upcoming Workshops
- Teaching with Concept Maps, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m., May 5, 2010
- WordPress for academic and administrative Web sites, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., May 26, 2010
- WordPress for personal and organizational Web sites, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., June 3, 2010
- Registration required
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Wow, the dynamic duo is back! It’s been so long since I had a Coffee Break fix. Thanks, guys.
Oh, and now that I’ve heard it — excellent show, guys!
Thanks — it’s good to be back. Now to see if we get out another episode in less than 4 months…
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