Now showing in the Showcase is Dolen Perkins-Valdez of the Puget Sound Department of English on how she is using a video chat program called Skype in her classrooms to do live interviews with the authors of texts her students are reading and studying.
Find out how having the author and students talk directly to one another in class by using video chat over the internet is enriching the reading experience in a cost effective manner.
This Friday February 20th, ASUPS and Technology Services will again be hosting a Friday Tech Talk.
Jesse Keating, who works for Red Hat as the Release Engineer for Fedora Core, will be speaking about developing in Open Source, in a talk entitled:
“Working in Open Source and Instant Gratification”
Technology Services will be providing free pizza.
More:
We have 10 Dell Inspiron Mini laptops available for checkout by anyone, with faculty given priority, at the Media Checkout Desk in the Tech Center of the Library.
Each Mini Dell runs Windows XP Home Edition and various UPS standard software installed including the Microsoft Office 2003 Suite, IE and Firefox browsers, and VPN connection software.
For more information on the Minis, see the Dell Mini page in our equipment inventory.