UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: Communications Technology Archives
April 8, 2008
Important features:
- Because the calendar is now on the extension.unh.edu server, events should begin appearing in the internal search results, and appear higher in Google search results.
- Users can easily subscribe to or import calendars and events into their own calendar application, such as Google Calendar, Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, Sunbird, iCal, etc.
- Events can have specified locations, which will link to a Google map for that address.
- Events can be tagged with keywords. (Once a sufficient number of events have been tagged, we'll institute a feature to show related events, and eventually other related resources from UNHCE.)
We are redirecting any existing links to the old calendar so that they open the new version, where possible to the same calendar. We are also modifying the links on our site to point to the new calendars. However, it's inevitable that we'll miss some links, so they will just go to the new events calendar home page, which lists events form all calendars. If you find a link that behaves like that, and would like to have it point to a specific calendar, please email Faye with the page the link was on and which calendar it should point to.
If you have questions or feedback about the new events calendar, please comment below or email me (stephen.judd@unh.edu).
June 6, 2007
Lifehack.org has a recent post on 5 Uses for a Wiki at Work:
- Operations Guides
- Dashboard
- Water Cooler
- Fact and FAQ Lists
- Making Plans
May 30, 2007
The folks at Common Craft have posted the following video that describes wikis in a straightforward way:
January 3, 2007
On January 10 at 3:30 PM Eastern Time, a new "30 Minute Session" Social Bookmarking as a Collaborative Tool -- how to keep your work team on the same page without burying them in email. Participants will be exposed to several social bookmarking tools with an emphasis on del.icio.us (for all Extension).
eXtension's professional development opportunities are open to all Cooperative Extension faculty, staff and employees.
These sessions will be held via Breeze at http://breeze.extension.iastate.edu/learn and your telephone. Plan to join the session 5 minutes before the starting time.
August 14, 2006
The University of California has a series of videos of their Master Gardener training sessions posted online. Topics include:
- Turf Management
- The Home Orchard
- Diseases of Ornamentals and Other Garden Plants
- Planting and Care of Landscape Trees
- Entomology
- Home Vegetable Gardening
There is, obviously, some regional-specific information, but it's a good illustration of using multimedia and the web to provide research-based information.
June 8, 2006
I've added a new question type to Formbuilder, so that Matrix-type questions can accept multiple responses (checkboxes) instead of just one response (radio button.) For example:
| Please select the day(s) you do the following activities: | |||||||
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8) Laundry | |||||||
| 9) Watch TV | |||||||
| 10) Use computer | |||||||
| 11) Eat | |||||||
July 22, 2005
Driven to distraction by technology (Ina Fried, CNet News.com, 7/21/2005)
The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state.
I'm as guilty of it as anybody, but that doesn't make it right.
July 13, 2005
From FDR to Podcasts - effective use of audio in online teaching and learning
September 29, 2004
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a relatively new way to subscribe to content from a variety of web sources (news outlets, blogs, discussion forums, etc.) If you'd like to learn more about it, C-NET.com has a great introduction to RSS, including a video tutorial.
September 13, 2004
People often ask, "What's the difference between a blog and a discussion forum (or message board)?" This post from CommonCraft gives a good explanation:
What are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs?