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"Her hips looked
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AnnE climbing the wall in
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I'm back from Monterey and had a terrific time.
We've wrapped up week 5 of the semester and
everything is running smoothly. The labs are
full and the students working away. Presidents
day weekend is here, so the podcast is being
published on a Thursday again. On today's show
we have a lot of tech news for Palomar, have a brief
interview with Chris Norcross about his upcoming
FrontPage classes, interview David about the
Blackboard feature of the week, talk about Beta
software, and wrap it up with a gizmo vending
machine.
Campus Tech News
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Dr. Haydn Davis has been appointed the new
Academic Technology Coordinator, to serve out
the term of Dr. Bonnie Dowd. Welcome
Haydn. Next week we hope to have an
interview with him.
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StudyMate has been updated. It now
includes a set of color pallettes.
More...
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The Proquest Safari Tech Book Online database
evaluation is still going on through the
library's web site.
More...
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The Concert Hour next week will feature
Darvak.
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@ONE has announced they are now accepting
applications for @ONE scholars; they also have
announced several new online classes starting
this month.
More...
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CCCConfer is going to be holding a conference on
Feb. 22 in honor of Hearth Health Month
featuring Dr. Steven R. Gundry. the
conference time is 2-3 pm, and there is no cost.
For more information, go to the
CCC Confer web site, or
click here to register.
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We have had to cancel the Blackboard
Communications Tools workshop, scheduled for
March 1. Contact
Glynda Knighten for questions. Glynda is
in the PD office, ext. 2250.
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PCPDF is getting a workout. It is an
Academic Technology service that permits faculty
and students to submit documents to a server,
and receive them back converted to PDF format as
email attachments.
Click here to try it.
Upcoming AT Training
- Friday, 2/24 "The Blackboard
Certificate Program" 9-11am,
LL-111, Dr. Haydn Davis and David Gray.
This was moved from Feb. 10.
- Go to our
training schedule to get the details
Blackboard feature of the week
Listen to this segment [mp3 - Play time
= 1:36]
Tech Talk Topic
Should I install Beta software on my work
computer?
This week I discuss three products from
Microsoft, the Beta 2 preview of IE 7, the Beta 2
release of MS Anti-Spyware, now called MS Defender,
and the anti-virus product from Microsoft called "OneCare
Live."
Here are the links to download these products:
There is Beta software and Beta software...
In the case of IE7, we do not advise that this be
installed on District computers, and only on home
computers if you can afford to lose the
functionality of the machine. The MS forums
list a large number of known issues with the preview
of Beta 2. With MS Defender, we recommend it.
It is a long tried and true product, not really
Beta, though it is called that, as far as we can
tell, to maintain believable deniability. With
OneCare, it's your call whether to try it at home.
We do not recommend it, though suspect that it will
eventually be covered in our campus agreement, in
which case we will in all likelihood begin using it
on campus.
Listen to this segment
[mp3 - Play time
= 5:54]
Gizmo of the week
At MooBella.com you can see what world-class
ice-cream lovers, who are also self-described
world-class engineers, can do when they decide to
create a homemade ice cream on demand vending
machine. It's fascinating...
http://www.moobella.com
There's interesting streamed media to describe what
people are saying about MooBella.
"My wife and I were
happy for twenty years. Then we met." --Rodney
Dangerfield
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