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The last podcast of the 2007-2008 academic year sees hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discussing summer plans for upgrading Moodle as well as the role out for the new Network Access Control (NAC) service at Lafayette. In Tech News they discuss the Wordle tool for generating beautiful tag clouds, the release of Firefox 3.0, Lewis & Clark College’s use of del.icio.us for organizing environmental studies research resources, the new WorldCat app for Facebook, and this year’s Podcamp Philly. Finally, Courtney announces upcoming workshops for July 2008.
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Show Notes
ITS News
- Moodle 1.9 Upgrade: July 9, 2008
- Tacoma trip to Moodle Users Community meeting
- Hack/Doc fest at Kenyon College July 15-17
- NAC implementation begins Wednesday
Tech News
- Wordle – generate beautiful tag clouds
- quick and dirty tag text generator to mine flickr tags:
- http://www.fluffykittens.com/wordle/
- Firefox 3.0 Released
- http://www.getfirefox.com
- Lafayette Toolbar for Firefox 3 coming soon.
- Lewis & Clark: Organizing research resources with del.icio.us
- Browse WorldCat through Facebook
- PodcampPhilly
- September 6th and 7th, 2008
- http://podcampphilly.pbwiki.com/
Help News
- Workshops
- Opinio & Opinio Reporting – Tues, July 8
- Google Earth and Web Mapping – Tues & Thurs, July 15 and 17
- Moodle:What’s New for Fall 08 – Mon, July 21
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