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.

On this edition of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley review what's new in Moodle, talk about the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest held at Kenyon College, announce the creation of Lafayette's Second Life Island and take a look at the college's new "Corn on the Quad" blog. In Tech News, they stop by NASA's new "NASA Images" photo archive, try out the "Molecules" application for the iPhone and iPod touch, and review Google's decision to kill it's LibrarianCentral blog.

The last podcast of the 2007-2008 academic year sees hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discussing summer plans for upgrading Moodle as well as the role out for the new Network Access Control (NAC) service at Lafayette. In Tech News they discuss the Wordle tool for generating beautiful tag clouds, the release of Firefox 3.0, Lewis & Clark College's use of del.icio.us for organizing environmental studies research resources, the new WorldCat app for Facebook, and this year's Podcamp Philly. Finally, Courtney announces upcoming workshops for July 2008.

Summer is upon us, and to celebrate, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley run down their summer reading lists. In additon, they have news about a new faculty blogger on Soapbox and the upcoming NITLE Moodle Users Group Meeting, discuss an interesting example of classroom journalism using blogging and Google Maps, and cheer the return of venerable web development web site WebMonkey.

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.

On this week's edition of the Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley talk about Lafayette's electronics recycling event for Green Week, announce when the Fall and Summer 2008 courses will be created in Moodle, and ask for feedback on how faculty use multimedia online. In Tech News, they talk about PayPal's decision to block visitors using old Web browsers, speculate on addition of New York Times news stories to Google Earth, and check out some new web applications for Facebook. Finally, Help News has tips on evaluating the effectiveness of your web site, as well as announcements about upcoming brownbag lunchs and workshops.

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.

Tech news dominates the podcast as Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist talk about Blackboard's elearning patent victory over Desire2Learn, a Tennessee bill that wants to force colleges to prevent online file sharing, Google's new forms tool, the death of HD DVD at the hands of Sony's Blu-Ray format, and a controversial new college gossip web site. In Help News, they look at how to generate a public RSS feed using tags in Google Reader, and preview upcoming technology workshops and brown bags sponsored by ITS.

• Wednesday, March 12, 2008
• Time: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
• Location: Gendebien Room, Skillman Library

Chris Ruebeck, Assistant Professor of Economics, will share his experience this semester using the audience response system, CPS from eInstruction, with his 100-student Economics 101 class. See first-hand what makes "clickers" a reasonable yet powerful teaching and learning tool. Lunch will be provided by ITS.