Randy Walker

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This is my new phone (and a delicious cocktail!):

phone Hosted on Zooomr

See if you can figure out whether each logo belongs to a digital audio product or a hair care product:

Logo Quiz

If you get all 14 right, you'll see a fun fact about some geek.

I bought a new printer.

SVSU has created a new portal page for students, staff, and faculty. This new portal is powered by Novell's Express Portal. This is all fine and dandy, except that the university already has a license for Blackboard.

Granted, our Blackboard license doesn't include portal features but we can upgrade our license to include portal software.

Advantages of using Blackboard over Express Portal:

• the SVSU population is already familiar with the Blackboard interface
• Blackboard and WebAdvisor/Colleague from Datatel integrate nicely.

The only benefit that Express Portal has, that I see, is that it integrates with our Mail and Network storage systems (both powered by Novell technology). It has one huge drawback: currently, mySVSU does not provide support for working with Blackboard!

It seems to me that upgrading Blackboard would be a better way to go.