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Which of our current web applications or apps we are considering support Unicode, diacritics and non-latin based characters sets.
I know Segue supports all of these. I think Moodle does as well. Not sure about MediaWiki, Google Apps, WordPress and Drupal….
What technologies are available for web-based capture. By this I mean tools for recording audio and/or video from a web browser. Ideally, such tools would be widgets that can be embedded in any web page or any content management systems via a plugin or module.
It used to be that Horizon Wimba was only reliable way to do this and even this solution was fraught with bugs. More recently the Adobe Flash Media Server (for which we have a license) and its open source counterpart Red5 have the capability to handle media streams from a browser. Pioneering work with these flash technologies for capture include Michegan State University’s ViewPoint and UOC’s LANGblog plugins for WordPress.
I’ve downloaded LANGblog and have set up on our development server, but need help from ETI folks like Adam or Ian to configure to use our FMS…
What’s that latest on surveys at Middlebury? I know we have been having some problems with KeySurvey, and that Ian set up a testing instance of Lime Survey. Would be great if someone could find this out and report back to the group.
As well, is it worthwhile to consider WordPress plugins for surveys. In particular, the PollDaddy plugin looks interesting. I suspect we’ll want to be cautious about these sort of plugins especially given the problems we’ve had with cForms as an obstacle to updating WordPress
What exactly does FERPA stipulate with regard to student’s rights? What is the implication of FERPA for course assignments.
The Audio player plugin currently installed on Midd WordPress is pretty good. I believe Adam made some modifications to it so that the audio file it uses is included in the post’s RSS enclosure tag so that RSS readers will download the audio files for that post. For example, see James Morrison’s blog for his International Political Economy course
However there are probably better WordPress plugins for podcasting. Would be curious to know what’s out there and reviews. Best place to start for this sort of research is WordPress Plugin Directory
Wouldn’t it be great if Google Docs could be displayed in a blog or other content management system. That way, a bunch of people could collaborate on a text which could be displayed on a blog for others to comment upon. The comments on the blog could help inform the editing of the text.
Is there a WordPress plugin for displaying Google Docs? If so how well does it work? Is it well supported.
Sites devoted to knowledge exchange are common in information technology. One particularly good one is stackoverflow.com. This particular site is exceptional for the following reasons:
We could try to do something similar on this blog. I know I have a bunch of questions I need to find answers too. Some of these questions require a bit of expertise to find answers to, but others probably can be answered with a few google searches.
Submitted by Carrie Macfarlane
Please join us at next week’s workshop called “Looking at Library Research.” It’s part of the CTLR Pedagogy Roundtable Series.
Thursday, June 11
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Looking at Library Research, Library 230
Presenters: Brenda Ellis, Joe Toth, Andrew Wentink
Conveners: Carrie Macfarlane and Terry Simpkins
Has the way you do research changed over the past few years? Have you noticed a change in the research your students are doing? Finding information has become easier than ever, but sifting out the best information remains a challenge even for experienced researchers. In this roundtable we will examine some of the changes in the resources libraries provide and in how they provide them, as well as discuss how these mesh (or don’t!) with student and faculty expectations.
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