Entries from January 2008

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Two Tools to Rule Them All…or not.

In response to the post, for Thursday I’d like to take a closer look at Omeka and possibly mash-up technology.
I’ve been playing around with Omeka a little bit and I have had a problem with a file size and I can’t seem to find file size limits indicated on the site, if anyone knows kindly [...]

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Using Tools

I’ve seen RSS used in lots of ways to pull information from all sorts of areas and aggregating it in multiple ways. I recently worked on a course website for an Econ 488 class that when a student tags their post with a certain category (pre-determined by the prof) that it will get pulled to [...]

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Chronicle is Right…Sort of

In the article McClurken posted there are some points I agree with and disagree with (and not just because I believe the Chronicle doesn’t know anything about technology). Like Kelly said, students are digitally fluent in some ways. I’d say in general that students of my generation see the internet and computers as a source [...]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Almost Forgot To Do An Introduction

Well my name is Shannon and I am sophomore. As you may probably have guessed I am familiar with a fair amount of the tools we will be learning in class, but I’m really not as geeky as that makes it seem. I didn’t know any of this stuff until the fall of ‘06 when [...]

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

RSS Feed Problems

Hey, anyone else having problems with some RSS feeds in the class?
I am currently having trouble with the comments feed on Colin and Kelly’s blogs and I can’t subscribe to any of Lisa’s feeds. Maybe it is just broken for the moment, but I wanted to know if anyone else was having the same problem.
Thanks!

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Because I Am Feeling A Little Dorky

If I was feeling slightly more dorky I would have probably tried to create an OPML file, but I am inherently lazy. So this isn’t the most helpful thing I could possibly do but I thought, hey why not? I compiled a list of everyone’s blog feed along with comment feeds too. I think everyone’s [...]

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Help a Freshman Out

So while perusing UMW blogs I noticed this post. Ann is a freshman and just transferred in from JMU. She is looking for recommendations on what classes she should take and what shouldn’t be missed during her time here at Mary Wash.
I know that some of you have been here longer than I have and [...]

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Virginia is Historical Marker Obsessed

I’ll be working on the Historical Markers Project this semester and I’ve been taking a look around the Historical Markers site that our group will be working off and I counted 62 markers for the Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Stafford area. It seems like quite a bit, but compared to the 2,200 that apparently exist Virginia [...]

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