New Media Center

at the University of Mary Washington

Notes

June - 12 - 2009 - Friday

Introduction – Who I am, Where we’re going

Third NMC

Keynote presentation . . .

Overview of UMW New Media Center site

Tour, Searching, Tips, RSS and feeds.

TOOLKIT

“community of practice”

“It’s not about the appliances, it’s about cooking a meal”

Synthesis – “the dialectic combination of thesis and antithesis into a higher stage of truth” – I mean holy shit, who wouldn’t want to involved with THAT!

Not shooting for perfection because in perfection there is no learning – mistakes and problems are where the learning occurs. Real World / Real School

Plugins

Feed WordPress – syndication – example import site: http://toolkit.umwblogs.org/category/iphone/feed/

WPTouch iPhone theme/plugin – pages optimized for iPhone or iPod Touch

Dagon Sitemap generator

FAQ-tastic

cets_EmbedRSS

Theme Test Drive – Admins see the test theme also you can use “?theme=xxx” to see any alternate themes, or for non-admins to see. Grab another theme to compare it to -

Simple Tags – Tag Cloud, Related posts

Activate New Theme

Arras Theme – “magazine” style

Widgets

RSS – Delicious feed

Flickr Photo Album

YouTube Favorites

Simple Tags – tag cloud

Sites

andheblogs, digitalmediacookbook – iphone

podcasts@umw – audio on iPhone – RSS Player

RSS

Tips page – Feeds, Tag feeds, category feeds

Tools

Compfight – find Flickr Creative Commons photos

Jing and Screencast.com

Camtasia (for the Mac????)

Video Download Helper plugin for FireFox

None.

About us

Welcome to the University of Mary Washington New Media Center. The UMWNMC is a sub-division of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (DTLT), and as part of its mission, provides research, oversees development, and offers production assistance and consultation for new media approaches to supporting technology-enhanced and online learning at UMW.

The University of Mary Washington is a member of the New Media Consortium, which we joined in 2007. The NMC provides programs and services that foster the exploration of new media and new technologies. The NMC provides an annual Horizon Project that reports on the emerging technologies in education.

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