Category: Technology

  • WordPress theme updated, new Lightbox plugin

    Decided it was time to update the theme. Now moved over to Brunelleschi 1.5.3 by Kit MacAllister. I’m all about letting the content speak for itself. I don’t like bright colors. I don’t like light fonts on dark backgrounds. The layout should be exactly the same, so hopefully no one will get lost. As I…

  • CRIMJ 450W: Racial Percentages, Version 2

    The instructor requested some changes, so we revamped the look/feel as well as the functionality of this short self-assessment exercise. Original can be found at CRIMJ 450w Racial Percentages, Version 1. There’s been a change in Instructional Designer for the course, so now it’s Kristin Bittner. Feature added: Sliders instead of dropdown menus. Instead of…

  • Threaded Comments in blogs.psu.edu

    This is OLD – from 2008, but, blogs.psu.edu can support threaded comments.  Just takes a bit of work – modify the template… just a little copy/paste. http://www.personal.psu.edu/bak147/blogs/brad/2008/10/test-of-threaded-comments.html

  • Wharton Web Symposium 2010

    The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA July 21-22, 2010 Overall impressions and takeaways This was an extremely good conference. It was also much more relevant than other technology focused (instead of higher ed focused) conference. I initially went into it thinking it was going to be much like the Penn State Web Conference, but it…

  • Learning Design Summer Camp 2010

    Education Technology Services Teaching and Learning with Technology Penn State 7/14-15, 2010 http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wiki/LDSC10MainPage http://www.ustream.tv/user/psutltstream Overall Impressions and Takeaways For the price (free), it’s hard to complain about a conference like this. It is well organized and well put together, however, sometimes it does feel like a “local” informal gathering. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with…

  • Web Conference 2010 Notes

    Penn State Web Conference 2010 Penn Stater Conference Center June 7-8, 2010 http://webconference.psu.edu/ Overall Impressions and Takeaways I have been to the web conference since 2005 and I don’t ever regret going to it. Most of the sessions seem to fall under two categories (1. what’s going on at Penn State or 2. technology how…

  • How to reset a password in Mac without a boot CD

    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080414140636495

  • Sun VirtualBox.org

    Sun VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) – Just found this one today!! It’s an open source alternative to Parallels and VMWare Fusion.  x86 virtualization.  It’s not just for Macs. Just installed and updating windows xP on my Mac Pro right now… seems a bit choppier than Parallels, but good for the price…

  • Unison, shared keys, crontab

    Learn something new every day… Summary: I’m using Unison from the University of Pennsylvania to do a two-way synchronization of some of my work files. I’m basically backing up my files from my work laptop and desktop. Shared Keys: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/SSH#Passwordless_Login (To set up shared keys… no password for ssh) Crontab: http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm (Set up crontab to…

  • Documentation: Microsoft Equations 3.0 and XYStudio’s EasyCapture

    Download link for XYStudio EasyCapture:http://www.xydownload.com/easycapture/ The challenge was getting the Microsoft Equation 3.0 in Microsoft Word (1997-2003 .doc) files into HTML (Dreamweaver).  In the Mac Platform, there is a right-click, save as image option.  However, in the PC World, there wasn’t such an option available.  After talking to a few instructional designers, it seemed that…