ITS Coffee Break for 9/10/2008

Hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley kick off this episode of the ITS Coffee Break with a rundown of their summer projects, including the redesign Library web site, a pilot for a new collaborative web site, and the newly-updated iTunes U. In Tech News they take a look at Google’s just-released Chrome web browser and dig for tweets using Twitter’s new search tool.

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ITS Coffee Break for 5/15/08

On the edition of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley explain ITS’s summer plans for Moodle, look at how Twitter is keeping people up to date with happenings in the Senate and House of Representatives, take a sneak peak at Open Office 3.0 and check out Google Reader’s ability to share notes. They also announce the early summer workshops for Moodle, Opinio, podcasting, Photoshop and more.

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ITS Coffee Break for 3/31/2008

On this edition of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist talk about the newly-released Moodle 1.9 and its improved Gradebook module and Ken reports on his recent visit to DrupalCon Boston. In Tech News, they discuss the fate of college rumor site Juicy Campus, the merits of campus text alerts, and find out how some faculty are using Twitter. Continue reading