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ITS Coffee Break for 10/6/2008

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Hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist kick off the early October edition of the ITS Coffee Break with a discussion of fall projects, including a slew of student video projects and “Spaces”, a new intercollegiate workspace for faculty that’s powered by Moodle and Shibboleth. In Tech News they look at new political and utility apps for the iPhone, check up on a chess match being played between Earth and the International Space Station, and consider Nintendo’s answer to Apple’s iPod touch: the DSi.

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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 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 →