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Posts for the ITS Coffee Break podcast.

ITS Coffee Break for 7/28/08

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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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ITS Coffee Break for 6/30/2008

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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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ITS Coffee Break for 5/30/2008

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Summer is upon us, and to celebrate, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley run down their summer reading lists. In additon, they have news about a new faculty blogger on Soapbox and the upcoming NITLE Moodle Users Group Meeting, discuss an interesting example of classroom journalism using blogging and Google Maps, and cheer the return of venerable web development web site WebMonkey. Continue reading →