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I've been "hunting" this
whale for some time now |
I finished my taxes last weekend. I'm still
numb and dazed. Those of
you who don't read the instructions for form 1040
from cover to cover miss things like our lead quote
this week. It's one of the reasons I decided
to be a whale hunter--that and having read Moby Dick
at least 7 times...
This week summer course shells were created in
Blackboard. One-thousand and twenty-one of
them. We made the decision to turn off the
course copy feature in Blackboard because it is
still not working correctly. Dave addresses
the problem in our "Blackboard feature of the week"
segment. On the show today we also have lots
of campus technology news, highlighting the spate of
recent @ONE announcements. Our tech-talk-topic
today is plagiarism, and specifically what,
technologically, can be done to address this highly
charged topic. Finally, our gizmo of the week
is a set of mp3 sneakers. (Yes!).
Campus Tech News
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Next week, March 27-31 we enter the home stretch
to the end of the spring semester. Our
computer labs return to their normal hours of
service, M-Th 7:30am-9pm, Fri 7:30am-4pm, Sat
9am-1pm. Call Myrna Valencia with any questions
at ext. 2657.
Click here for AT computer lab information.
- We had scheduled an upgrade to the new
database server of Blackboard on Thursday, March
23, but it did not happen because Dell failed to
deliver parts on a timely basis. We will
schedule a new day for this to happen soon.
- Upcoming next week we will be having a demo
of the Blackboard community portal and content
management systems on March 29. I will
report on it in next week's podcast.
- As many know, the Exchange server was
updated beginning this semester, but what you
may not know is that there is now a limit of
15MB per message.
- Software upgrades this week:
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SyncToy ver. 1.1 is now available.
SyncToy is for Windows and is used to
synchronize data between computers.
- Other news of software can be found in
my AT blog. Here is the subscription
address:
http://atpalomar.blogspot.com/atom.xml.
Yes, it is an Atom feed, but will work just the
same in your news reader.
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Outlook 2003 Add-in: Video E-mail.
Not an upgrade, but a free add-in that
allows you to quickly and easily use a USB
webcam to send email.
- Presentations given at Blackboard World '06
are now available online at
http://connections.blackboard.com.
Click here for instructions.
- The @ONE summer institutes have been
announced. There will be one in San Diego
June 13-15. The cost is only $50,
including meals(!). workshops include:
- Powerful PowerPoint: Multimedia and Ways to
Enhance Your Presentations
- Intermediate Digital Photography
- Podcasting: Creating and Publishing Audio
Content Online
- Creating Web-Based Teaching Materials Using
Dreamweaver
- Managing Cisco Security in College Campus
Networks
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@ONE is also sponsoring an Online Teaching
Institute at San Diego City College on June 16,
the day after the institute ends.
Click here for more details.
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In more @ONE news, there is a list of desktop
seminars beginning in March and April
here.
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The Concert Hour
for MARCH 30 MAD HOT CABARET
PREVIEW. Music 197 students perform selctions
from the upcoming production of Mad Hot Cabaret,
to be held March 31 and April 1 in the D-10
performance lab. Contact the
performing arts department for more
information.
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The Shakespeare Lecture Series,
an educational video program hosted by
Professor Christine Barkley and produced at
Palomar College will begin broadcasting
on Thursdays from 9-10am on Cox cable channel 16
(north) and Adelphia cable channel 67. The
videos have been digitized and streamed online,
but only for those registered in Chris'
Shakespeare class, English 250.
Upcoming AT Training Workshops
- On Tuesday, March 28, Chris
Norcross will be conducting a Photoshop 1
workshop.
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@ONE and
FCCC have free online eLearning.
Microsoft and
Adobe both have excellent free training
materials online.
- Go to our
training schedule to get the details
Blackboard Feature of the Week
This week David discusses export/import in
Blackboard. We have had to turn off the course
copy feature in instructor control panels because
the feature is not working correctly.
Blackboard is working on fixing the problems, but it
is not fixed yet. The work around is to use
export/import. David explains how.
We have created
written instructions
and a
Flash-based
screen video
on how export/import works in Blackboard.
Contact Blackboard Support for more
information.
Listen to this segment [mp3 - Play time
= 8:41]
Tech-Talk-Topic
Plagiarism, and what to do about it
Soon we will be starting a 60-day trial of
the TurnItIn suite of software products.
Their primary tool is anti-plagiarism software.
We will be integrating the product through
Blackboard, so any professor can assign their
student a TurnItIn project and have the paper
reviewed by the TurnItIn service. The
student and professor can read the TurnItIn
report directly from Blackboard.
The TurnItIn databases index over 4.5 billion
pages, and grow at the rate of 40 million pages
per day. Papers are compared to live
Internet pages, previous (archived) versions of
Internet pages, all prior student submissions
using TurnItIn (over 70,000,000 students
actively use it), and also certain Proquest
databases. (Proquest electronically
indexes masters and PhD theses).
What is plagiarism? Here is the
definition from the
WPA statement on best practices:
"In an instructional setting, plagiarism
occurs when a writer deliberately uses
someone else’s language, ideas, or other
original (not common-knowledge) material
without acknowledging its source."
Using technology to reveal the amount of
unaccredited borrowing, then, can be extremely
useful. In fact, it is a technology that
can be transformative to the way a subject is
taught if given proper consideration by the
instructor. Both students and professors
can profit from the proper use of a paper's
originality report.
Links
Articles
Advice
Listen to this segment
[mp3 - Play time
= 7:28]
Gizmo of the week
mp3
sneakers. "Music-playing electronics have
made their way into clothing of all types, from
belts to jackets, and from underwear to hats. Now
the phenomenon is about to make its debut in shoes.
Dada footwear plans to unveil next month its "Code
M" sneakers, which both play music and store data.
Users listen to music via a wireless headset that
transmits from the shoe. The "Code M" system is
built into the shoe's heel and tongue.
The company says the device will store 100 songs
with a six-hour battery life. A USB port on the
lateral side of the shoe allows downloading of music
and re-charging of the battery. The wireless headset
works via Bluetooth, and picks up music from the
shoes as far away as 30 feet. Code M shoes will
become available April 6 and cost $199.99 a pair,
according to the company. "
Source:
http://www.personaltechpipeline.com/news/181502520
Music
The
music for today's show was provided by
Magnatune.com, and is used through their
Creative Commons license for podcasts. Today's
album was
Big Bad Sun by
Chris Juergensen, self described "Crystalline
Jazz Guitar/Rip Roaring Blues" artist .
We used rip roaring tracks
5:
Tell Me a Story; track 7: Revelation; track 3: Come
Out Baby; track 9: Bug Lips; track 1: Sweet Melissa; track
4: House on the Hill. Visit
magnatune and reward them for their generosity.
Magnatune is not evil!
"History
teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
once they have exhausted all other
alternatives." "
--Abba Eban
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