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ITS Coffee Break - 6/5/2007 - Moodle Update, Summer Reading Lists, Google Street View
Hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley settle into their summer routines with the latest edition of the Coffee Break. In ITS news, they provide an update on the conversion from Blackboard to Moodle. In Tech News, they provide a rundown of their summer reading and projects lists, talk about Google's new 'Street View' addition to its Maps tool, and take a look at the new beta version of CNN's web site. Finally, they announce the first batch Moodle Quickstart workshops for the summer.
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Show Notes
ITS News
- Moodle Update:
- We're in the process of getting all of the course data for Fall 2007 out of Banner and into Moodle. We were able to import all of these courses, plus all of the active faculty for the fall, into our test version of Moodle. What we're working on now is connecting the faculty with their courses automatically.
- It's a complex process, but we're hoping to have the courses setup, and assigned to their respective faculty, sometime in the next week.
Tech News
- Ken's Summer Reading List
- The Last Colony by John Scalzi: The concluding book of a trilogy in which Earth's retirees can join the military at age 75, get brand new (if green-tinted) bodies and go off an fight in alien wars.
- Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge: Vinge returns to the concept of Singularity, that the rapidly approaching instersection of humanity, computers and bioengineering will radiically transform the human race into something so different we can't even imagine it.
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman: Norse gods do battle against the new gods of the wired world.
- * Court’s summer list
- Moodle, e-learning course development
- Red River by Lalita Tademy
- Clyde Edgerton, Floatplane Notebooks: six different first-person narrators, Edgerton recounts the family exploits between 1956 and 1971 and provides significant glimpses of family history as far back as the Civil War.
- blog several times a week
- Google's Street View
- http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004503.html
- Google has added 360 degree panoramas to their Google Maps of many large cities, including New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and others.
- The Google 'ick' factor
- CNN's New Beta
Help News
- Upcoming Workshops: Moodle
- Moodle Quickstart, 9-10:30 a.m., Tues., Jun 19
- Moodle Quickstart, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Thu., Jun 21
- Moodle Quickstart, 10-11:30 a.m., Tue., Jun 26
- Moodle Quickstart, 2-3:30 p.m., Thur., Jun 28
- Moodle Quickstart, 1-=11:30 p.m., Tues, July 10
- Moodle Quickstart, 2-3:30 p.m., Wed., July 11
Contacting the Podcast
- Questions, comments and suggestions can be sent to itsblog@lafayette.edu.
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Excellent Coffee Break as usual, and even more interesting. But I like the look of CNN's beta site. It seems, well, cleaner and there still are plenty of headlines. It's easier on the eyes.
Glad you liked it! We should have another one out this week at some point.
If they let you drag and drop channels on the page, I'd probably like it more -- as is they've ditched the political and science channels that are the primary reason I visit CNN in the first place.
For the soapbox readers here is a link to some great finds on Street View
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