http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress Yet Another WordPress Blog Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:59:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A "Candadian Studies" page and a "Tokyo Studies" page have been created as course page to explore the workiongs of the ScholarPress plugin to Worpress. http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=155 Following a suggestion from Geoff Duke, and seconded by Paul Martin, I've both upgraded this installation from 2.5 to 2.7, and installed the ScholarPress.Net "Courseware" plugin.  Wordpress in general makes a nice content management system; perhaps this plugin will make it something that plays nice with Blackboard etc. http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=137 Joi Ito explains Creative Commons to Loic Le Meur in light of "transaction costs" .... [httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bb-S0ByUwA] Originally found on Oliver Thymann's "Oliver's Stuff" blog . http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=131 http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm _______________________________________ ED-MEDIA 2007 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications June 25-29, 2007 * Vancouver, BC Canada CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** Submissions Due: Dec. 19, 2006 ** Organized by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) http://www.aace.org ______________________________________________________________ ** What are your colleagues saying about ED-MEDIA conferences? ** http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/testimonials.htm COLOR POSTER--ED-MEDIA 2007 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Available to Print & ... http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=126 Wolfram Workbench is the state-of-the-art integrated development environment that makes it easier to build and maintain software solutions written with Mathematica technologies. Wolfram Workbench is currently available as a prerelease exclusively at UVM as part of our subscription to Wolfram's Premier Service. All Mathematica users at UVM can download a free ... http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=124 Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, Editor: Sigrid Kelsey, MLIS, Louisiana State University Introduction: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years. Podcasts, Email, the World Wide Web, Blackberries, cell phones, text messaging, wireless connections, and other forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have transformed ... http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=123 Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006 (http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006) CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (second call): 28 July 2006 - The IADIS WWW/Internet 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are ... http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=122 NELINET Call for Proposals for Presentations for the 2006 IT Conference Title: "Social Networking: Plugging New England Libraries into Web 2.0" Date: Friday, October 13, 2006 Location: Bentley College, Waltham, MA Want to share your expertise? NELINET is looking for proposals that are project-based and show how libraries are using new technology tools to ... http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=121 Call for Papers Interaction is a fundamental feature of research in the Arts and Humanities. This conference seeks to explore diverse interactions that shape new ars of investigation and provide a fresh look at interdisciplinary practices. This graduate conference will explore the ways in which an exchange of ideas and methodologies ... http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=119 Larry Press recently posted a message to the DIGLIB List announcing his survey on the accuracy and completeness of Wikipedia articles. On May 19th, he posted a quick summary of the results so far: So far, 50 respondents have evaluated a Wikipedia article in an area of their expertise. Of those, ... http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/wordpress/?p=118