ITS Coffee Break: Teaching & Audio, Hack/Doc Fest, Droid, DARPA

On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist discuss Chris Phillips’ essay “I Hear America Reading: Using Digital Audio to Teach American Poetry”, which appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Teaching American Literature and announce Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V, which will be held at Lafayette College.

In Tech News they talk about Windows 7 testing, the new Droid smartphone, and DARPA’s new $40,000 balloon hunting challenge. Finally in Help News they take a look at the Powerpress plugin for WordPress and announce a new smartboard workshop being held in just-renovated Scott Hall.

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ITS Coffee Break for 3/25/2009

Hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist talk about how Lafayette’s WordPress pilot is going, discuss their upcoming collaboration project that coordinates Moodle usability testing at six colleges, check out Shibboleth at Brown University and install the ink-saving EcoFont. In Help News, they talk about a new plugin for Firefox that makes copying and manipulating HTML tables a snap and announce upcoming hands-on workshops for Office 2007. Continue reading