ITS Coffee Break

ITS Coffee Break for Mon, July 31, 2006

The ITS Coffee Break crew takes a look at the new Parallels virtualization software that allows you to easily run Windows, Linux and other operating system under Mac OS X. Courtney and Ken then launch into a discussion of video blogs, explaining what they are, offering a few technology/web culture/geek centric examples, and speculate on possible roles for vlogs in academia.

ITS Coffee Break for Tue., July 25, 2006

The podcast begins with a recap of last week's email server problems, and then announces the creation of the new ITS Network Redsign blog on Soapbox. Tech news focuses on the trend of corporations attempting to make their own social networking web sites to cash in on the success of MySpace ... with less than stellar results. Finally, Help Topics looks at upcoming workshops, including one that focuses on "MySpace and Facebook" and another that looks at what learning objects are available for use by faculty.

ITS Coffee Break for Mon., July 17, 2006

The July 17 Coffee Break begins with reminders about the upcoming network outage and changing your network password, and then delves into conversations about how wikis can be used in collaborative projects and trends in podcast listenership. News of upcoming workshops rounds out the podcast.

ITS Coffee Break for Wed., July 11, 2006

The July network outage tops Lafayette news in the July 10 edition of the ITS Coffee Break, while Tech News looks at "Understanding Virtual Worlds" and "Social Software and Learning. Finally, the Help segment offers tips for working with lengthy Microsoft Word documents, notes new versions of Adobe, Macromedia and Apple software, and discusses the use of commenting on ITS help pages.

ITS Coffee Break for Wed., July 5, 2006

This week the ITS Coffee Break looks at the upcoming LVAIC Technology in the Classroom Symposium and discusses Trinity University's course web site entitled "Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games".

ITS Coffee Break for Wed., June 28, 2006

Learn about the upcoming upgrade to Safari Tech Books on line, get the podcast through a quick-subscribe link in iTunes, test drive the Microsoft Office 2007 Beta, and learn a few new parent hacks in this edition of the ITS Coffee Break.

ITS Coffee Break for Mon., June 19, 2006

Learn about email password changes, discover how to take Web page screenshots from within Firefox, and get an overview of technology in the Lafayette Libraries in the June 19 edition of Soapbox. You can also find out about new Microsoft Word documentation available on the ITS web site.

ITS Coffee Break for Tue., June 6

Updates to the password change utility, the ability to use your network id to login to e-mail, and a new Web-based tech book library service and upcoming workshops top the ITS News segement of this week's Coffee Break podcast. After discussing what's new with ITS, Courtney and Ken take a look at Microsoft and Adobe's fight over PDF creation and talk about the new security flaws found in Mozilla's Firefox Web browser. Finally, the "Help" section reviews the new documentation available on the ITS web site.

ITS Coffee Break for Tue., May 30

Learn about the early summer ITS workshops, listen to Ken and Courtney discuss their tech/scifi summer reading lists, and learn about new wireless and Webmail documentation in the latest edition of the ITS Coffee Break.

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