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Re-imagining the Science Poster
Thu, 2008/11/20 - 08:40 — jimgroomI have been moonlighting around campus this semester as a Dog, CogDog, introducing students and faculty to Alan’s 50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story. Well, there have been a number of good projects that I promise I will add to his wiki and tag in delicious accordingly.
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Blogging WordPress as a CMS
Tue, 2008/11/18 - 09:21 — jimgroomMartha Burtis is back in action at UMW, and she returns to us with a project that I am following with great anticipation: blogging WordPress as a CMS. As she notes in her introductory post on the topic:
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A Song for our Times
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 07:53 — jimgroom
Image Credit: “Sometimes pictures just compose themselves” by phxpma.
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Punk ‘n’ Pie
Mon, 2008/11/10 - 09:30 — jimgroomHats off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinematèk once again for their upcoming Punk ‘n’ Pie film series, which looks to be an amazing retrospective focusing predominantly on the UK Punk/New Wave sce
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UMW Blogs Support Vidoes Now Embeddable
Thu, 2008/11/06 - 07:58 — jimgroomA couple of months ago I promised I would take the flash videos (published as .swf files) and upload them to Blip.tv so that others could use them freely and embed them elsewhere at will. I finally got around to doing this, and if you need some quick videos
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UMW Blogs loves Akismet
Wed, 2008/11/05 - 10:50 — jimgroom
After reading this post by D’Arcy about how easy and free it is to get Akismet up and running for WordPress Multi-User, I final
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BlackBoard is such an open stud
Mon, 2008/11/03 - 10:25 — jimgroomThis is classic, and it’s so bad it’s almost good, which is what scares me about it. But the misinformation campaign being run here about openness is dangerous, and the portrayal of Bb NG as “a hip stud” who gets all the hot girls because he is so Web 2.0 just tells you how much Bb mocks you, abuses you, and insults your intelligence.
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Reflections on EDUCAUSE
Fri, 2008/10/31 - 00:41 — jimgroomI actually parachuted in and out of EDUCAUSE, and I was my usual strange self at conferences. I really can’t seem to bring it together when I go to these things, my head space gets a bit confused and I withdraw a bit. I’m going to have to work on this.
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Happy Halloween
Thu, 2008/10/30 - 21:31 — jimgroom“And the haunting distribution of a million light particles from an edupunkin shall lead the way.”
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