Tag Archives: Purdue
Can Purdue Have a Better Course Management System?
Purdue University has hosted and supported the current central course management system (CMS, sometimes known as a learning management system or LMS), Blackboard (formerly WebCT) Vista since 2004. Fall 2011 begins a welcome change to the new version of Blackboard’s CMS, Blackboard Learn (version 9.1). Although Blackboard Learn 9 was released in April 2010, Purdue [...]
Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series for Faculty
Blackboard offers online webinars for Best Practices and pedagogy in online courses.
ITaP’s Course Email List Tool: new features make it easier to use
Fall 2010 saw some new features added to ITaP’s popular Course Email List tool. Purdue’s Course Email List tool allows an instructor to request course email lists for any course they teach each semester. Email sent by the instructor to the list will go automatically to the @purdue.edu email addresses of all currently enrolled students [...]
Drowning in Data? SharePoint Calendar to the Rescue!
Data Nightmares I don’t know about you, but sometimes I have trouble keeping up data. I have plenty of it, but my past experience has been to keep it in a multitude of places, including on post-it notes, in emails, on a page in one of my tablets, etc. The trouble is, when I’m asked for [...]
Morning Musings: iTunesU hits 300 million downloads
Launched in 2007, iTunesU has quickly become a leading tool for participating institutions to upload, manage, and share custom course content online. Over 800 Universities around the world have joined Apple to create one of the world’s most popular, and prolific online educational catalogs. In just three years, iTunesU has surpassed the 300 million download mark from [...]
Morning Musings: New Facebook Scam To Watch For – Dislike Button
Another day, another Facebook scam to watch out, for especially for those looking for a dislike button. This scam will prove attractive to many Facebook users out there as support for a “dislike” feature has been great and one of the more requested implementations since the day the Like button rolled out. However those thinking [...]
Instructional Technology Grants Showcase: INSITE
INSITE stands for the International Network of Students Investigating Technology for Education. This project is the brain-child of Dr. Timothy J. Newby, an instructor in the college of Education here at Purdue University. As a selected project for one of the TLT Instructional Grants, Dr. Newby worked with our student developers Mike Chaten and Bryan [...]
Morning Musings: NASA targets the iPhone
Even though funding for traveling to the moon has been cut, NASA still has their eye on getting the public interested in exploration of that big sphere of space cheese that orbits our planet. NASA has released their first game to the iPhone in the form of a Lunar Electric Rove Simulator. If you’ve ever [...]
Additional Email Storage on Exchange now Available at Purdue
ITaP has announced that it has increased each user’s inbox quote on Purdue‘s central Exchange server to 1 GB. Even more additional space is available to users at their request for a small annual fee. More
Call For Proposals – TLT Conference
the 13th annual Teaching and Learning with Technology conference to be held on April 7 and 8, 2010 at Purdue University