Today kicked off the 2008 West Virginia Higher Education Technology Conference at Lakeview. I was really looking forward to Mark Greenfield’s opening keynote after lunch and he didn’t disappoint. His presentation, “It’s the End of the Web As We Know it (and I Feel Fine)” was one I caught in Rochester at HighEdWebDev in 2006, [...]
Those of you who now have new 3G iPhones need to check and see if your adapter is one of the ones Apple is recalling. Apparently there is this annoying little problem of the prongs breaking off in outlets (!!). So…you might want to trade your adapter in as soon as the replacements are available [...]
Our student newspaper posted a story on Monday about spam and how OIT deals with it. The article details some impressive stats. Spam is a touchy subject. No one likes to get it and if even a little bit gets through, it seems like we have a problem. The fact that WVU receives 10 MILLION+ [...]
Calling all librarians! Researchers! Educators! Students! If you are interested in looking at a really revolutionary website, take a look at the National Archives Experience Digital Vaults (http://www.digitalvaults.org/). This is probably the closest I’ve seen to a 2-D interface replicating the experience of wandering through browsing library stacks and picking up any piece of information [...]
This may seem to be old news to some people, but it occurred to me that some of you out there may not really be utilizing one of the most efficient trends in information acquisition since the advent of email – RSS.
If you are one of those folks, you may be asking – “Well, what [...]
In catching up on my RSS feed reading, I found a post at .eduGuru about a study of Social Media in Higher Education. I thought this information would be interesting and useful to the WVU community as well. Here it is:
The Use of Social Media in Higher Education for Marketing and Communications: A Guide for [...]
I recently came across a tool that many of you web folks may find to be very helpful. We all know that font needs individual attention during the creation or modification of a web page. Typetester is an effective tool for comparing and finding what font functions the best for your web pages. It does [...]
I’d like to take a moment to respond to the article in today’s Daily Athenaeum. There are some items that need clarification and I want to make sure everyone understands why the installer for Google Chrome wouldn’t work on University-run Internet connections. I’ll include text from the DA article when I reference it specifically.
Some of [...]
A colleague here at OIT (thanks, Justin!) just sent this tidbit to me. Adobe is releasing ColdFusion 8 (a.k.a. CF) free for students and educators. This is a really interesting development because previously you needed to own a license to use and learn about ColdFusion. Since open source programming languages (like php and Ruby on [...]
So much of my communication is done by e-mail that I spend a significant amount of time each day interacting with it. It is a wonderful tool, but when there are too many things coming into the inbox, it can become a burden just keeping the important items separated from the bulk mail. I found [...]
