Soapbox 2.0 - podcast

ITS Coffee Break for 10/6/2008

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:03:29 -0400

Hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist kick off the early October edition of the ITS Coffee Break with a discussion of fall projects, including a slew of student video projects and "Spaces", a new intercollegiate workspace for faculty that's powered by Moodle and Shibboleth. In Tech News they look at new political and utility apps for the iPhone, check up on a chess match being played between Earth and the International Space Station, and consider Nintendo's answer to Apple's iPod touch: the DSi.

ITS Coffee Break for 9/10/2008

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:42:13 -0400

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.

ITS Coffee Break for 7/28/08

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:42:52 -0400

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.

ITS Coffee Break for 6/30/2008

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:59:06 -0400

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.

ITS Coffee Break for 5/30/2008

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:36:27 -0400

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.

ITS Coffee Break for 5/15/08

Mon, 19 May 2008 11:53:34 -0400

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.

ITS Coffee Break for 4/24/2008

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:32:24 -0400

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.

ITS Coffee Break for 3/31/2008

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:43:03 -0500

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.

ITS Coffee Break for 2/27/08

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:11:44 -0500

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.

ITS Coffee Break for 2/19/2008

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:08:55 -0500

In this edition of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley take a sneak peak at Moodle 1.9, talk about the survey tool migration from Vovici to Opinio, and discuss the new portable audio kits available in Skillman. In Tech News they review the Harvard Arts & Sciences Faculty's arguments in favor of providing open access to their scholarly articles, and look at Research Blogging, a web site that chronicles academic blog posts and online peer-reviewed research articles. In Help News, they announce upcoming training workshops and offer tips on how to update a file resource within Moodle.

ITS Coffee Break for 1/28/2008

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:30:25 -0500

On the first ITS Coffee Break of the new year, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley recap Lafayette's Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, talk about changes to Moodle for Spring 2008, and take a look at the new web-based survey tool Opinio. In Tech News they talk about the MPAA admitting that college students aren't responsible for nearly as much lost revenues as they previously claimed, and experiment with GoodReads, a social networking site for folks who love books. Finally in Help News they explain how to change your name or e-mail address in Moodle, geek out about a Color Palette Generator that choses colors based on pictures users submit to it, and revisit the technology video podcast commandN.

ITS Coffee Break for 12/7/2007

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:11:26 -0500

In this edition of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley announce that faculty can now access their Spring 2007 courses in Moodle and ask for feedback on the potential use of the online world Second Life at Lafayette. In Tech News, they have an update on the controversy over Facebook's Beacon advertising program, remember the Commodore 64 and visit the virtual Shakespearan world of Arden. Help news has some tips on how to better use RSS and a warning for Mac OS X Leopard users who run MySQL on their computers.

ITS Coffee Break for 11/30/2007

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:34:25 -0500

On this edition of the Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discuss the upcoming Moodle Hack/Doc Fest being held at Lafayette, let faculty know when they can expect spring courses to appear in Moodle and announce ITS's recommendation regarding installing the new "Leopard" version of Mac OS X. Misadventures with the 10.4.11 version of Apple's operating system lead off Tech News, followed by news of the new Firefox 3 Beta and commentary on Facebook's new 'social ads' system. In Help News, they discuss problems with sending messages to Yahoo! mail accounts, talk about new Moodle documentation and workshops.

ITS Coffee Break for 11/02/2007

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:50:48 -0500

The new Mac OS X Leopard gets a try out and Lafayette's network upgrade continues during the 11/2 edition of the ITS Coffee Break podcast. In ITS News, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley review what they like and don't like about Mac OS 10.5 and remind folks that there will be planned outages around campus through Nov. 14 as the network upgrade continues. In Tech News, they review the Twitter microblogging platform and check out some innovative ways its being used to spread emergency news and announcements, take a look at the Drupal-powered National Novel Writing Month, and look at a web application that correlates Wikipedia edits to a map of the world. Help News sees a review of text editors for Macs and Windows computers, as well as a rundown of upcoming workshops.

Podcast done in MUSIC TECH 104

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:28:50 -0500

This is an example of the kind of podcast that can be done using GarageBand.

This was an assignment done for the class of MUSIC TECH 104.

To see pics and links....download the file and open with Quicktime

Enjoy.

*info taken from baltimoreravens.com