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Tech news dominates the podcast as Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist talk about Blackboard’s elearning patent victory over Desire2Learn, a Tennessee bill that wants to force colleges to prevent online file sharing, Google’s new forms tool, the death of HD DVD at the hands of Sony’s Blu-Ray format, and a controversial new college gossip web site. In Help News, they look at how to generate a public RSS feed using tags in Google Reader, and preview upcoming technology workshops and brown bags sponsored by ITS.
Getting the Podcast
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Show Notes
ITS News
- Waypoint Assessment Pilot in Moodle
- DrupalCon Boston
- Ken Newquist and Jason Alleyare going to DrupalCon. Expect blogging on Soapbox.
http://boston2008.drupalcon.or
- Ken Newquist and Jason Alleyare going to DrupalCon. Expect blogging on Soapbox.
Tech News
- Blackboard wins patent lawsuit
- Tennessee Eyes Bill to Make Colleges Stop Online File Sharing
- Google Forms
- Google will let you create a form that will then enter data into a spreadsheet. Excllent!
- http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html
- HD Wars: Blu-Ray Beats HD-DVD
- JuicyCampus
- A gossip web site is causing contraversey at Cornell, Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University.
- http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2736/web-site-promising-juicy-campus-gossip-faces-backlash
Help News
- Google Reader Tip
- You may already know that you can click the “share” icon in Google Reader and have it appear in a public feed. But you can also tag items in your feed with a keyword, and then make the keyword’s feed available.
- http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/09919947475341026676/label/coffeebreak
- Workshops
- Many, many workshops are coming up.
- Mapping on the web, Outlook, Photoshop, Illustrator, Moodle for Departments and Organizations, Recording Audio and Creating Podcasts
- Upcoming brownbags topics
- Clickers in the Classroom
- 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 12, 2008
- Gendebien Room, Skillman Library
- Chris Ruebeck, Assistant Professor of Economics, will share his experience this semester using the audience response system, CPS from eInstruction, with his 100-student Economics 101 class. See first-hand what makes “clickers” a reasonable yet powerful teaching and learning tool. Lunch will be provided by ITS.
- Coming up: Second Life, Podcasting.
Complete schedule available soon
- Clickers in the Classroom
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