ITS Coffee Break for 11/4/08

On this edition of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley talk about Lafayette’s Election Night Broadcast project and ask for ideas about how to improve Moodle, the college’s open source learning management system. In Tech News, they look at how video games are being used to encourage reading, check out a new ebook reader for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, and discuss new research that claims surfing the web is good for your brain. Finally, in Help News they talk about Adobe’s Kuler web app for picking color palettes and give a rundown upcoming brown bag lectures.

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ITS Coffee Break for 7/28/08

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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