Testing from Flock
March 31st, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsPosted in Internet Technologies | Comments Off
Upgrades are in the air…
March 31st, 2008 by Audrey Williams
Spring over the Information Center
If you are reading this on the Technology Update blog (or in your RSS feed reader), then we have been successful with our upgrade: Wordpress (the blogging platform we use for this blog) is now at version 2.5
Wheee….nothing like a warmish spring day and some fresh new code!
Now, if only we can get Firefox 3 and the Scribefire add-on, which is a great way to write blog posts to be happy with each other and the blogs.
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KD Lawson Photograph Studio Dedication – March 26, 2008
March 27th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsThere were lots of people in attendance as the KD Lawson Photography Studio was dedicated in the Bagwell Center for Media & Art.
Here is a slideshow from the event and there is also a short video of National Geographic Photographer, Jay Dickman, recalling KD.
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Ask YODA recap for March – Barracuda Spam plugin for Outlook and Reading blogs in Outlook
March 26th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsWe had a great session this month with questions about Banner, the Luminis Content Management System (LCMS) that will be running our college website eventually, Outlook and more! Here are two demonstrations of interest to share with those who could not be there:
First – Installing the Barracuda Plug-in for Outlook
There is a plug-in you can install into Outlook on your computer that will give you two new buttons along the top right of Outlook. These buttons help you train the Barracuda Spam filter so it can identify spam even better. Here’s a quick rundown of how to do it:Go to the Barracuda login page
Click on the Get Mail Client Plugins link (see below)
A new window will open. Click the “Download Now” button.
Open that downloaded file and install the plugin.Restart Outlook and you will see two new buttons at the top right. The red one is to identify spam and the green one is clear messages as not spam.
Here is complete documentation on installing the plugin.
Second – Adding RSS feeds to Outlook 2007
If you have upgraded to Office 2007, your Outlook client now includes the ability to read RSS feeds. RSS feeds (read more about them on the Technology Tuesday archive blog) are basically broadcasts from sites about when they are updated and what the new content contains so you can decide to read it or not. Most news sites, like CNN, have them as do all blogs and many other regularly updated sites. Here is how to add an RSS feed to your Outlook client.
In a nutshell,
- locate the RSS feed on a page (look for the orange RSS logo or a link that says RSS feed)
- Right click and copy the RSS feed URL (it will end with rss.xml or rss=2 or something else like that)
- Go to Outlook and right click on the RSS folder down on the left below your email folders. Choose Add New RSS feed.
- Paste in the URL you just copied and click okay.
- Feed is verified and shows up just like email.
- Cool!
Screencast of the process (opens new window)
What we thought of the internet back in 1995
March 24th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsThis is courtesy of the great work by the folks at Waxy.org as they digitize VHS tapes about the internet.
Wow..it is going to change the way we learn, work and play!!! Can’t wait to see how!
They cite 35-40 million people on the internet. I just checked and according to the Internet World Stats page the number now is closer to 1.3 billion.
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We are joining the Technorati!!
March 20th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsTechnorati is a search engine for blogs. This post will provide a little bit of code so it can add our blog to its listing. Exciting, isn’t it??
Technorati Profile
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Ask Your Online Digital Assistants (AskYODA)
March 18th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsOur next AskYODA session is scheduled for April 26. Join the panel to ask questions about Desire2Learn, Outlook, Banner or any other techno-puzzles you might have. Bring your lunch, if you like!
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Check out the Distance Learning Classroom
March 12th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsIf you have not yet made it to the Distance Learning Classroom, here is a great overview of the changes we made over the past year.
FLASH VERSION
MPEG 4 VERSION
Mp4 version TWAV Classroom Video
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Server is online
March 11th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsServer is online
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New Media Player Plugin for Wordpress
March 10th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsIn our experiments to find easier ways to add multimedia, here is our latest victim, er, volunteer – Anarchy Media Player (AMP) from An-Archos
With it added as a plugin to this blog, a simple HREF link (basic web link) to a media file like an MP3, Flash video, Windows Media video, Quicktime and MP4 videos – all just work. You can either upload the media files to the blog (if you have server space) or link to them on another server. (What I am doing)
Here are some tests.
MP3:
Download Theme Music
Flash:
Download Flash Video
Windows Media:
Download WebCT Users Group Vid
YouTube Embed:
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