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On this edition of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley review what’s new in Moodle, talk about the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest held at Kenyon College, announce the creation of Lafayette’s Second Life Island and take a look at the college’s new “Corn on the Quad” blog. In Tech News, they stop by NASA’s new “NASA Images” photo archive, try out the “Molecules” application for the iPhone and iPod touch, and review Google’s decision to kill it’s LibrarianCentral blog.
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Show Notes
ITS News
- NAC Rolls On
- Moodle 1.9 Update. Enrollments this week.
- Hack/Doc Fest at Kenyon College
- Second Life Island for Lafayette
- Legions of iPod touches arriving this fall?
- Corn on the Quad blog
Tech News
- NASA Images
- New repository of NASA images, but it’s a challenge to navigate … and no PicLens!
- http://www.nasaimages.org
- Molecules
- An application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows you to view three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulate them using your fingers. Free and open source.
- http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/molecules
- Google Kills LibrarianCentral blog, replaces it with newsletter
Help News
- Upcoming Workshops:
- Monday, August 11, 2008
- Moodle Quickstart
- Moodle: What’s new for Fall 08
- Tuesday, August 12, 2008
- Intro to Second Life
- Intro to Outlook for Faculty
- Wednesday, August 13, 2008
- Moodle: Navigating the new Gradebook
- Moodle: Developing your Course
- Thursday, August 14, 2008
- PowerPoint I
- Smart Classrooms
- Monday, August 11, 2008
- Register for a workshop
- ITS Event Calendar