ITS Coffee Break for 10/18: EDUCAUSE, Google News, Second Life Reuters Bureau

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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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  • 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/

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