May 21 2007
ITS Coffee Break – 5/16/07 – Moodle, Podcasting & Teaching, Windows Vista
A discussion of Lafayette’s upcoming conversion from Blackboard to Moodle leads off this week’s edition of the ITS Coffee Break. In Tech News, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley review “Confessions of a Podcast Junkie”, an EDUCAUSE article by Carie Windham that the discusses the advantages of combining podcasting with teaching and talk about Case Western Reserve University’s virtual campus in Second Life. In Help News, they announce ITS’s new “Windows Vista” resource page and offer a preview of upcoming summer workshops.
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