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See BLOG, page 3 Featured Stories • Day Tripper - San Juan Capistrano • Hostels provide travelers with lodging Technological • Titan Spotlight: Cami Croteau tools for teaching • The Ethics of Public Relations • Celebration of Ramadan Website study Professors incorporate ebooks into New crime mapping aid for students their classroom curriculum • Music fans gather at FYF MICHELLE WIEBACH News Editor • Wrestling gets a second chance technology and law Quizlets provides a new MICHELLE WIEBACH way to study Cal State Fullerton was one of five Cal State cam- News Editor puses chosen to participate in a pilot program that MARYANNE C. SHULTS aims to license digital content for college courses. Staff Writer The initiative, called Digital Marketplace, was Daily Titan Poll The Placentia Police Department recently joined a launched last month through the Chancellor’s Of- comprehensive crime mapping website to assist with fice. The Digital Marketplace is an agreement made What do you think of parking at tracking dangerous trends occurring in cities and neigh- Whether memorizing the hor- between the CSU system and five major college pub- borhoods. mone systems of the human body lishers to provide students with personal-use sub- CSUF this semester? Placentia subscribed to CrimeReports.com, the crime for an anatomy midterm or prepar- scriptions for digital content through their campus mapping website, earlier this summer. ing to take the General Readiness bookstore. Students will also have access to publisher It is better this semester “I think one of the benefits of CrimeReports is that Exam to apply for graduation, most content throughout the course. it’s free,” said Sgt. Michael Busse of the Placentia Police students have to spend time drilling The initiative has three goals in mind, which are It still sucks Department. “People can see the location of the crime, and studying. “improve learning outcomes through accelerating no matter where they are in the world.” Today’s students no longer have teaching innovations, improve the accessibility of It is the same CrimeReports is an online interactive website that to spend hours writing out flashcards learning materials to students and significantly re- works with law enforcement to report and post crimes on three-by-five inch index cards. duce the cost of learning materials (textbooks) to I gave up on parking and now I online. Residents can form online communities and re- Instructors do not have to start from students.” port any crimes that happen in their neighborhood. scratch creating study guides for There are currently six classes participating in rather walk/cycle/skateboard/ About 1,800 law enforcement agencies worldwide exams. They can now turn to free, the pilot program: Math 125, Business Administra- have teamed up with the website service web-based applications that generate tion 201 and 501, Radio-TV-Film 100, Educational scooter to keep track of crimes and provide up- interactive study tools with a few key- Technology for Secondary Teachers 320 and Finance to-date information for residents. strokes. One of these is Quizlet.com. 370. CrimeReports resembles and func- Preparing for an exam is no lon- The pilot program will collect and analyze tions similarly to Google maps. ger confined to sitting at the library student and faculty user data from the five “We wanted to use tools that are or favorite coffee shop, flipping index participating universities during the fall readily accessible to the commu- cards over and over, but never being semester to help identify usage and nity,” said Scott Kinzie, truly confident in the level of reten- preferences for future digital materi- senior vice president of mar- tion. als. The Chancellor’s Office will keting and product strategy for Quizlet.com offers several differ- be conducting surveys with stu- CrimeReports. ent formats of study tools including dents enrolled in the various Residents can keep track of flashcards, quizzes and competitive courses. neighborhood crimes on a daily study games. Search for subject-spe- See DIGITAL, page 2 basis and not have to wait until cific terminology and use tools oth- it is seen on the news. The web- ers have already created. Users may site is also updated daily with the also customize terms and questions most frequent and current crimes. to suit their own needs. See CRIME MAPS, page 2 See QUIZLET, page 2 dailytitan.com September 14, 2010 2 NEWS IN OTHER NEWS CRIME MAPS: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH INTERNATIONAL ... Continued from page 1 centia is the nearest city to Ful- curred in Placentia where about occurred instead of the specific lerton that uses the service. eight reports of theft, seven re- address. At least 21 survivors in Venezuelan plane crash “It’s pretty much a win-win “It is a subscription based ser- ports of vehicle burglary, about While CrimeReports is used situation,” Sgt. Busee said. “It’s vice and there is a monthly fee six reports of assault and about and viewed by many around the VENEZUELA – At least 21 people survived when an aircraft carrying 47 accessible 365 days.” based on the population of the five reports of vehicle theft. world, Ruelas speculates that the passengers and a crew of four crashed Monday in southern Venezuela, authori- Sgt. Busse also said that peo- city,” Busee said. “(We) data CrimeReports is also accessible website’s services and informa- ties said. The plane, operated by the state airlineC onviasa, had taken off from ple will use CrimeReports more dump to them (Crime Reports) to the public. To access the crime tion will wear off as time goes tourist favorite Margarita Island and was headed to the city of Puerto Ordaz, frequently because there are ap- and they do “ information and by. in the state of Bolivar. plications for iPhones and other not intrude It’s pretty much a win- receive current in- “Maybe at the beginning peo- Earlier, Venezuelan Infrastructure Minister Francisco Garces had said the services on the Internet such as into our (Pla- formation from a ple will use it, but then I think aircraft had been traveling from Puerto Ordaz to Margarita. 23 people were Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. centia Police “win situation... specific location, they won’t care” Ruelas said. rescued from the wreckage alive, but doctors said two died later in the hospital. The applications are useful for Department) users need to be- Sgt. Busse said that the web- The TRA -42 model aircraft crashed shortly before landing into the scrapyard those who wish to access crime system.” - Sgt. Michael Busse, come a member site is growing and there are of a nearby plant operated by the steel company Sidor. information about their neigh- The web- Placentia Police Department by registering on about 700 to 800 police depart- Bolivar Governor Francisco Rangel said emergency teams acted quickly to borhood on their iPhones. site contains the website.