1. Techno Blabber Game Technology phrases Some are fake Guess which!

2. Tomcat Servlet Container A Java web server framework

3. Technology Without An Interesting Name TWAIN, Protocol to talk to image scanners

4. Recursive Click Vector Completely Bogus. Compliments of Camie.

5. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ADSL, broadband over telephone

6. Apache Rewrite Rule A smart proxy that can rewrite URLs in amazing ways

7. Attachment Packet Interface ATAPI, Disk interface type

8. General Protection Fault A Windows Error Message. Commonly Blue Screen of Death

9. Extensible Firmware Interface Next generation of computer BIOS. Used in the new Intel Macs.

10. Extended File Interchange Mode A total fake

11. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension MIME, specification for attachments in email

12. Acyclic Depth First Traversal Not real at all

13. Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PCMCIA, adapter cards for laptops

14. Cross Site Socket Transfer Entirely made up. Fiction.

15. Cyclic Redundancy Check CRC, a checksum to verify data transmissions

16. Stratified Multi Pass Data Filter A hoax, a sham, a flim flam

17. Distributed Component Object Model DCOM, a microsoft object programming model

18. Remember… We really sound like this to people sometimes

19. Blackboard Nuts & Bolts Blackboard  Is UAA’s course management system  Servicing UAA since Fall 2000  Runs on Solaris  Is a suite of programs working together  Reflects the banner SIS

20. Factoids 1,000 of 4,000 courses every semester 700 faculty and 13,000 students using 4,000 unique visitors per day 150 people online at any given time A person logs in every 2 seconds 7 GB per day transferred over the net Data stored  250 GB files  25 GB database

21. Architecture: A Helicopter View

22. Snap Shotting Banner

23. Blackboard Dashboard Stats every 10 minutes  http://bb.uaa.alaska.edu/dashboard http://bb.uaa.alaska.edu/dashboard Reports every week  https://bb6.uaa.alaska.edu/uaa/ https://bb6.uaa.alaska.edu/uaa/

24. Conclusions Callcenter is doing a great job with Blackboard! Emedia evolved training from introductory material to advanced course design Blackboard has been very stable in the last year Have a statistic or reports idea? See Jim Big hardware and software upgrades coming this Summer