Curricular Technology Workshops in December
The Curricular Technology team has scheduled workshops and work sessions for faculty on various platforms that are available for teaching and learning. Workshops typically provide overviews of a given...
View ArticleCourse Hub Case Studies
The Course Hub is being actively used by a variety of courses this fall. To give a sense of the different ways faculty are using this new platform, we’ve made a short screencast that shows a number of...
View ArticleAesthetics of the Moving Image
Louisa Stein is an assistant professor of Film and Media Culture. In the spring of 2010, I interviewed Prof. Stein about her use of technology in a number of her courses. Below is a screencast from...
View ArticleCurricular Technology J-term Workshops for Faculty
LIS Technologists and Liaisons will be offering more workshop in J-term on Moodle and WordPress, as well as general technology work sessions where faculty can get assistance on using any platform...
View Articlesites.middlebury.edu now on WordPress 3.3.1
We made the upgrade yesterday to WordPress 3.3 (and 3.3.1). The video below gives an introduction to the changes and new features in version 3.3. We tested as many features as we could think of before...
View ArticleNew Social Media Tools in sites.middlebury.edu
I’ve added two new plugins today that you can use to connect your blog on sites.middlebury.edu with people through social media. In this post, I’ll describe what they do as well as cover a couple of...
View ArticleNew Themes Available for sites.middlebury.edu
I’ve added 132 new themes to our instance of WordPress that can be used for your department, course, and personal blogs. The eight themes that we previously had have been renamed #1-8 so that they show...
View ArticleReduced comment spam in blogs
During the past few months we have been seeing an increased amount of comment spam coming into WordPress (sites.middlebury.edu) that follows a distinctive pattern: the comment text is useless, but...
View ArticleNew Plugin for WordPress: Show Thumbnails in the Posts List
If you use Featured Images for posts in your WordPress site, you can now enable a plugin for your site that will show these images to you on the All Posts page in the administration interface for your...
View ArticleWordPress Upgraded to version 3.4
The Middlebury and MIIS blogging communities are now running on WordPress 3.4. This introduces three new features. A theme customizer that lets you change your site’s settings and styles in one...
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