Courtney did a great job of editing together a quick movie from the intertextuality assignment footage.
Archive for September, 2009
Rainbow over Charleston
2009
09.27
09.27
Wednesday, September 23rd’s Research Methods in Expressive Culture class caught this rainbow during their intertextuality assignment. Special thanks to Matt.
Office 2007 Available in the Student Computing Lab at Addlestone Library
2009
09.23
09.23
Student Computing Support recently installed Office 2007 on the lab computers in the Addlestone Library. Being a Mac user, the transition has been a little difficult for me. In an effort to help patrons, I went looking for some helpful quick reference guides and found a wonderful selection of printable quick reference sheets at CustomGuide via Tech Republic.
CustomGuide makes the reference sheets for a variety of programs and platforms (Mac/PC). They have quick reference guides for the new Office Suite, Adobe Products (CS3), operating systems and Internet browsers. I highly recommend them.
Here’s the Quick Reference Guides they developed for Office 2007:
- CustomGuide’s Office 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)
- CustomGuide’s Word 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)
- CustomGuide’s PowerPoint 2007 Quick Reference Guide (pdf)
- CustomGuide’s Outlook 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)
15 Minutes A Day: I Need More Time! What is RSS and How Can I Use It?
2009
09.22
09.22
The web team at the College of Charleston added a new feature to blogs.cofc.edu that allows you (and others) to post to multiple blogs by category or tag. This process is one of the features of using RSS ( or “NOT SO” Really Simple Syndication). Robin Good provides a wonderful article on RSS from top to bottom for the non-technical user at: http://www.masternewmedia.org/content_delivery_and_distribution/rss-really-simple-syndication/RSS-what-it-is-best-uses-applications-guide-20071120.htm
Why Would I Want To?
- I have 3 blogs and I am tired of posting the same content to each of them
- I want to post ALL my content in one place and select which post goes where
- I want other people to contribute to my blog via their own blog/posts
How Do I Do it (on my Blogs.cofc.edu Blog)?
You can enable the plugin in the Dashboard of your blog by selecting Plugins and Activating Feed WordPress. After you have activated the Feed WordPress plugin, you will need to add the website/blog/feed URL for syndication, adding it to your syndicated sources. For more information on the Feed WordPress Plugin visit: http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/
Other Useful Uses for Syndication
- Integrate social networking apps - for example, what you post on Facebook automatically appears in Twitter
- Gather content from all over the web in one place without having to visit each site individually
- Collect a “Reading List” from the web to feed on your blog as a widget
- Gather multimedia from all over the web on one topic
Once you get the hang of using RSS to gather and read information, you may want start creating your own customized feeds to suit your needs. Yahoo Pipes is a free tool that allows you to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
Addlestone Library Browsing Book Collection Blog Launches!
2009
09.22
09.22
The Browsing Book Committee (Andrea Galbo, Martha McTear, Will Breard, and Jannette Finch) at Addlestone Library started a browsing collection blog at http://blogs.cofc.edu/browsingbookscollection. The blog features book reviews, new browsing books, a Twitter feed, and interactive widgets to LibraryThing and Shelfari.
The browsing collection is located near the Circulation Desk (Calhoun St. side) @Addlestone.
SITE ENVY=LIFE ENVY
2009
09.17
09.17
I went on Facebook today to look up an old friend and found her website at www.mandithompson.com. I was really impressed with her work and her site. I also think I have site envy and truthfully, maybe even life envy. Her site is so clean, direct and to the point. Sigh for me and Hooray for her!
I am currently in the process of of trying to figure out how to collapse the multiple blogs I keep, 1 for teaching, 1 for work, another for art…not to mention all the social networking accounts I keep up with for myself and for work: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, BrightKyte…the list continues to grow everyday. I need to start feeding posts from one main blog to my “sub-blogs” by tag. I need to integrate my social networking apps with my blog. I want to watch local hashtags in twitter and feed them to my blog. I want to use tumbler just because I DO. I need to find a flickr api that will work well for my portfolio. I need to start using Wordpress MU so that I can add my stand-alone art projects as needed. I have to figure out a better way to read feeds. OR, DO I?
I am beginning to think that simplicity is the key and this pondering led me to a couple of interesting options. GoogleSites and Weebly (Mandi’s website is built on this). Maybe less really is more?
