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Last Chance — LIS Open Workshops Wind Down for the Summer

Cynthia Slater — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:57:25 +0000

It’s not too late to join us for a workshop (in English!) before Language Schools begin. Visit go/lisworkshops to view the last of our advertised open sessions. You’ll find a Drupal introduction that covers basic web site maintenance skills, as well as another opportunity to learn how to access and use — Middlebury’s fabulous online learning resource that uses short videos to help you acquire new business and technology skills, including photography finesse.

Lynda’s recently added courses include such varied topics as “Managing Teams,” “Designing a Book,” and “Up and Running with Windows 8.” Watch a single video or work through an entire course, but be warned — it’s addictive.

Please note that we do continue to offer “by request” group training during the summer months, staff and classroom space permitting; kindly send your request with details to helpdesk@middlebury.edu.

LIS Workshops for March-April

Cynthia Slater — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:23:17 +0000

Our current workshop offerings are listed below. Don’t forget that you can always view course descriptions and latest additions by visiting go/lisworkshops.

Want to get signed up? Click here.

Date	Workshop	Time	Location
Wed, 3/27	Online Learning w/lynda.com	11:00 am – Noon	Davis Lib 105
Fri, 4/5	Introduction to Drupal	2:30 – 4:00 pm	Davis Lib 105
Thu, 4/11	Drupal Work Session	2:30 – 4:00 pm	Davis Lib 105
Thu, 4/11	Online Learning w/lynda.com	4:15 – 5:00 pm	Davis Lib 105
Tue, 4/30	Drupal Work Session	3:00 – 4: 30 pm	Davis Lib 105

LIS Workshops for February-March: Drupal and Video-based Learning

Cynthia Slater — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:34:30 +0000

Our current workshop schedule is now available. Visit go/lisworkshops to view offerings for February and March and sign up for topics of interest. You’ll find Drupal introductions that cover basic web site maintenance skills, as well as work sessions where you can get help with specific questions about how to improve your departmental web site. We are also offering several opportunities to learn how to access and use — Middlebury’s fabulous online learning resource that uses short videos to help you acquire new business and technology skills.

Lynda’s recently added courses include such varied topics as “JavaScript and AJAX,” “Writing Fundamentals: The Craft of Story,” and “Office 2013 New Features.” Watch a single video or work through an entire course, but be warned — it’s addictive.

January-February LIS Workshops & New lynda.com Courses

Cynthia Slater — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:10:42 +0000

Our current workshop schedule is now available. Visit go/lisworkshops to view offerings for January and February and sign up for topics of interest. You’ll find a chance to attend a Drupal introduction covering basic web site maintenance skills, as well as a several work sessions where you can get help with specific questions about how to revise and improve your departmental web site.

Do you prefer to learn on your own? Check out — a fabulous online learning resource that uses short videos to help you acquire new business and technology skills. Recently added new courses include “Mac OS X Mountain Lion Essential Training,” “Conflict Resolution Fundamentals” and “Creating Photo Books with iPhoto.” Watch a single video or work through an entire course, but be warned — it’s addictive.

LIS Workshops & Professional Development Offerings

Cynthia Slater — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:52:13 +0000

There is still time to acquire new skills before the year is out! Visit go/lisworkshops to view our workshop schedule and get signed up for topics of interest. You’ll find a few more Drupal work sessions where you can get help with specific questions about how to revise and improve your departmental web site, as well as one more chance to attend an introduction covering basic web site maintenance skills.

We’re also offering another opportunity to get acquainted with — a fabulous online learning resource that uses short videos to help you acquire new business and technology skills. Recent course additions include “InDesign Secrets,” “Managing Your Career” and “Word 2010 Power Shortcuts.” Watch a single video or work through an entire course — either way it’s professional development that doesn’t cost you or your department a dime.

LIS October Workshop Schedule Includes Drupal & lynda.com

Cynthia Slater — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:14:49 +0000

Pinch yourself. If you feel something it means you survived the start of the academic year! Since you’ve done so well it’s time to treat yourself and learn some new skills that will make your life easier. Check out go/lisworkshops to view our hot-off-the-press workshop schedule and get signed up for topics of interest.

We’re excited to offer several opportunities to get acquainted with — a fabulous online learning resource that uses short videos to help you acquire new skills. You can work through an entire course (something nice to mention at performance evaluation time!) or watch a single movie for just-in-time learning. With over 1,400 courses, there is something for everyone. Recent additions include “Effective Public Speaking” and “Mac OS X Mountain Lion New Features.”

You’ll also find Drupal workshops on our schedule covering the basics of maintaining a departmental web site and work sessions where you can get help with your specific questions.

LIS Workshops – August

Cynthia Slater — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:22:18 +0000

Don’t miss out! There is still time to fit in some learning before fall semester leaps out from behind the nearest patch of sunflowers… Visit go/lisworkshops to view our schedule and get signed up for topics of interest. You’ll find Drupal sessions to help you get your departmental web site up to snuff before the next batch of students arrives on campus. You’ll also find another opportunity to find out about and how you can start using it to improve your skills.

Showing Lab Availability in Drupal

Ian McBride — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:00:47 +0000

You can now let people know how many machines are available in Middlebury computer labs in your department, building, or campus-wide. Add the following short codes to any content in our Drupal site.

[labserver]	Shows the total number of available lab machines on campus.
[labserver 65]	Shows the total number of available lab machines in lab 65, which is LIB 105.
[labserver 65,43,58,15,13,14]	Shows the total number of available lab machines in multiple labs. In this case I’ve listed all of the labs in the Davis Family Library.

To get the number for a lab, you can go to the main LabStats page and click on one of the labs. The URL will content some text like “id=65″ and that is the number to use in the short code. The LabStats site also has a lot of other information about our computing labs.

Thanks to Petar Mitrevski for helping out with some configuration on the LabStats site to support this new feature.

Sit back and watch our homepage

Ian McBride — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:00:58 +0000

For the last two and a half years, College Communications has picked a set of one to a dozen stories that are “featured” at any one time on our homepage. When you visit http://www.middlebury.edu, one of these stories will randomly open. Now, another featured story will open after eight seconds, until all of the featured stories have been shown at least once, at which point they’ll start over again.

If you would like to pause this and explore the stories on your own schedule, just click to open one of the story bars. This will stop it from advancing to another story, giving you time to read the title and caption.

Easy Navigation Links For On-Campus Browsing

Ian McBride — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:51:29 +0000

If you are browsing our website on-campus through an ethernet connection or connected to the midd-secure or midd-standard wireless networks, you should now see three links in the top-left corner of any page on www.middlebury.edu. If you are browsing from off-campus, you can log in to the site to have the links show up. These links will let you quickly get to WebMail, BannerWeb and the Portal.

If you’re on-campus you can also get to these resources by typing mail, go/mail, go/email, go/webmail to get to WebMail; go/bw or go/bannerweb to get to BannerWeb; and portal, m, students, facstaff, staff, faculty, go/portal, go/m, go/facstaff, go/students, or go/faculty to get to the Portal. Searching for any of these terms will also bring you directly to these sites and the links to them remain in the site footer. You can also customize how and whether they appear for you in the Portal.

Thanks also to Adam Franco for setting up Edge Side Includes so that we can show custom content to on-campus people while still delivering a cached copy of the page to make your browsing experience faster.