Techno Blabber Game

Technology phrasesSome are fakeGuess which!

Tomcat Servlet Container

A Java web server framework

Technology Without An Interesting Name

TWAIN, Protocol to talk to image scanners

Recursive Click Vector

Completely Bogus. Compliments of Camie.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADSL, broadband over telephone

Apache Rewrite Rule

A smart proxy that can rewrite URLs in amazing ways

Attachment Packet Interface

ATAPI, Disk interface type

General Protection Fault

A Windows Error Message. Commonly Blue Screen of Death

Extensible Firmware Interface

Next generation of computer BIOS. Used in the new Intel Macs.

Extended File Interchange Mode

A total fake

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

MIME, specification for attachments in email

Acyclic Depth First Traversal

Not real at all

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCMCIA, adapter cards for laptops

Cross Site Socket Transfer

Entirely made up. Fiction.

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRC, a checksum to verify data transmissions

Stratified Multi Pass Data Filter

A hoax, a sham, a flim flam

Distributed Component Object Model

DCOM, a microsoft object programming model

Remember…

We really sound like this to people sometimes

Blackboard Nuts & Bolts

Blackboard Is UAA’s course management systemServicing UAA since Fall 2000Runs on Solaris Is a suite of programs working togetherReflects the banner SIS

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

Architecture: A Helicopter View

SnapShotting Banner

Blackboard Dashboard

Stats every 10 minuteshttp://bb.uaa.alaska.edu/dashboard

Reports every weekhttps://bb6.uaa.alaska.edu/uaa/

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