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Learning management systems take center stage as Courtney Bentley, Ken Newquist and special guest Carrie Havranek (Visiting Part-time Instructor in English) talk about augmenting classes with online material in Blackboard, Moodle and Soapbox. They also discuss recent developments in the popular online world Second Life and review the new web site search documentation recently added to the ITS web site.

John O'Keefe and Michael Costello present the progress of the Lafayette Network Redesign.

Hi all!

This is an extension of my already established blog, "Live from Ecuador", on another blog hosting service. I will try to post as regularly as I can.

Basically, the premise for my blog is to follow my journey to South America pre-pro-and post departure. I am currently updating my blog and talking about the process of actually getting to Ecuador and how taxing it is!

I have attached a podcast I posted on my blog on October 11th. I have video, pictures, audio, and facts about Ecuador as well as details about my progress.

I will be happy to answer any questions related to the abroad process. My program to Quito, Ecuador is hosted by Boston University.

Quito, Ecuador: January 6-May 19, 2007

Stay tuned!

Sophomore Justin Sayde, RA of the Dry Surfers Organization, guest hosts the 10/30 edition of the ITS Coffee Break with Ken Newquist. The podcast begins with a discussion of possible blogging alternatives to Soapbox and an update on the network redesign. Tech News features a conversation about the just released Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 web browsers, news about a massively multiplayer game set in the Shakespearean timeframe, and thoughts on the upcoming release of Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii game systems.

Courtney Bentley reports on her recent trip to Educause, the education technology conference, including news about Duke's Digital Initiative, work on collaborative learning spaces, podcasting, and a Flash-based economics course. In tech news, Google's acquisition of YouTube and its release of its "web office" product Google Docs and Spreadsheets take center stage. In Help News there's a slew of workshop announcements, including details about the upcoming administrative computer training workshops.

This week's edition of the Coffee Break announces the ITS Gamer Server Survey, which looks at ways to improve network speed for gamers and non-gamers by deploying a game server on campus and then discusses the proposed Center for Teaching and Learning at Lafayette. In Tech News, Ken and Courtney look at Kansas State University's new podcasting initiative that plans to make 6,000 class podcasts available to students. In Help News, they discuss the upcoming "Design and Administer Effective Web Surveys" workshop being given via web conference by Stephen Porter, Director, Institutional Research, Wesleyan University.

The information literacy brown bag to be hosted by Skillman Library on October 6 leads off this week's ITS Coffee Break. A look at tech news beyond Lafayette's campus finds science fiction author Cory Doctorw trying out some alternative methods of publishing fiction, lessons for those afraid of cascading style sheets, news about Sony's new Reader product for viewing digital books, and a list of higher education podcast feeds. Finally, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley look at ITS' upcoming workshop schedule, which includes "Acrobat I: Creating PDF Documents" and a host of training sessions for staff and administrators receiving new Lafayette computers.

This is what we did on my floor this weekend.

The latest edition of the Lafayette Libraries & ITS newsletter Bytes & Books and the launch of the College Archives Photograph Collection lead off campus news in the 9/20 edition of the Coffee Break. In Tech News, Ken and Courtney look at applications designed to be loaded onto portable computer drives such as USB Flash keychains or iPods, discuss science fiction author David Brin's essay "Why Johnny can't code" and then chat about Microsoft's own Soapbox. In Help News, they announce upcoming workshops on podcasting and adminsitrative computer training.

September's scheduled network outage and news about updates to the Skillman Mac Lab top ITS News in this edition of the ITS Coffee Break. In Tech News, Ken and Courtney discuss Facebook's pending transition from closed to open community, talk about a Wired reporter's recent experiment in community reporting and editing via a wiki, and delve into the war of ratings at Digg.com. Announcements about upcoming Word Basics and Podcasting 101 workshops round out the podcast.