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Traffic on UMW Blogs and a few notes

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Reverend

Yesterday was the last day of the Fall semester so I took a quick screenshot of traffic on UMW Blogs in Google Analytics over the last four months, which looks like this: Which made me think, how does this compare … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs trusts and loves you!

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Reverend

Sarah Cunnane, writer for the Times Higher Education blog, recently featured UMW Blogs as one of the rare scholarly publishing platforms for a university community that actually cultivates, encourages, and allows for open publishing by anyone in the UMW community. … Continue reading →

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Back to school at UMW (Blogs)

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Reverend

We just finished our first week at UMW—-it was an uncharacteristically late start for us. We are usually in week two or three by now, but I am not complaining because the extra spell before game time was nice. That … Continue reading →

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Cookies for Comments: another Spam Solution for UMW Blogs

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Reverend

Given I still haven’t got the error for TypePad AntiSpam fixed on UMW Blogs, but after a recommendation from the WordPress forum legend @andre_r I installed the spam fighting plugin Cookies for Comments, and so far I am blown away … Continue reading →

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DTLT Today: The UMW Blogs Upgrade Show

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Reverend

I can’t begin to tell you how much fun it has been having Tim Owens at DTLT rocking the joint. He’s been experimenting madly with Andy Rush‘s Wirecast/Live Boradcast setup, a.k.a “the kit,” and it’s evermore apparent we’ve only scratched … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Upgraded to WordPress 3.2.1

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Reverend

Image credit: darek.zon’s “Blue Sky” Yesterday UMW Blogs was upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (3.2.1), and it was surprisingly seamless. Why surprising? Well, we hadn’t updated since December 2010 and we had more that 69 plugins and themes … Continue reading →

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TypePad AntiSpam on UMW Blogs

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Reverend

Image credit: Dok1’s “Spam” After about 3 years with Akismet on UMW Blogs we switched over to TypePad Antispam so that UMW would no longer be breaking the new licensing for Akismet—under which we would be paying $750 a month … Continue reading →

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Study Abroad Blogs on DTLT Today

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Reverend

The Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (a.k.a. DTLT) has a new 15 minute daily show called DTLT Today. DTLT Today is the brainchild of our latest and greatest addition to DTLT: the Tim “Timmmmyboy” Owens. It’s been awesome having … Continue reading →

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The Vertical and the Horizontal

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Reverend

I will be presenting a quick 15-20 minute session at the Council of Independent Colleges conference focusing on History and Information Fluency. I was pretty inspired by James Grossman’s talk tonight about how information can be understood in terms of … Continue reading →

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Creative teaching

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Reverend

Gardner may be the most creative teacher I have yet to come across, and his work with social media in the classroom still stands as a model I aspire to. So having the opportunity to talk with him about creative … Continue reading →

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