CCE New Media Group http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ccemedia/nmg/ en Copyright 2009 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:34:53 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss What is Connect? Facebook Connect is the next evolution of Facebook Platform - enabling you to integrate the power of Facebook Platform into your own site. Enable your users to...
* Seamlessly "connect" their Facebook account and information with your site
* Connect and find their friends who also use your site
* Share information and actions on your site with their friends on Facebook

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Communicate your ideas powerfully using Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro web conferencing software. Securely share presentations and multimedia right from your desktop, and get feedback from hundreds of participants — all using a web browser and the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, already installed on 98% of Internet-connected personal computers.

A.K.A umConnect. This used to be known as Macromedia Breeze Meeting.

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Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other.
* Enrich your site
Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.
* Attract more visitors
Your users can easily invite friends from social networks and contact lists to visit and join your site.
* No programming whatsoever
Just copy and paste a few snippets of code into your site, and Friend Connect does the rest.

Here's an article about facebook connect vs google friend connect. http://mashable.com/2008/12/05/facebook-connect-vs-google-friend-connect/

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]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ccemedia/nmg/2008/05/a_cool_clock_widget_1.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ccemedia/nmg/2008/05/a_cool_clock_widget_1.html Fri, 16 May 2008 14:10:44 -0600 Print CSS All pages that are created using the new UMContent (Stellent) content management system use source ordered semantic markup that is accessible and flexible. We also include a specific print style sheet for each page (see example from Compleat Scholar and use Print Preview in your browser) which removes unneeded images, adds a print header image, and (in Firefox) prints out URLs from all links.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ccemedia/nmg/2008/04/print_css.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ccemedia/nmg/2008/04/print_css.html Examples Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:22:41 -0600 Podcasts using UThinks Blogs into iTunes

Several CCE programs publish audio recordings of their scheduled events. These MP3 recordings are linked on the website as well as being collected into an XML feed that is read by iTunes.
Examples of these feeds are those for Great Conversations and for Headliners. Another program which rebroadcasts audio and video recording is the Strategic Leadership Insights series. Eventually these recordings will become part of the University of Minnesota's iTunesU collection (once that is formally launched).

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Adobe Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze) is software used to create information and general presentations, online training materials, web conferencing, learning modules, and user desktop sharing. The product is entirely Adobe Flash based. All meeting workspaces are organized into 'pods'; with each pod performing a specific role (i.e. chat, whiteboard, note, etc.).

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Created to showcase work by several dozen visual artists who teach for the CCE Split Rock Arts Program, the SRAP Gallery 2008 uses "shadowbox", an open source JavaScript media player, as the backend. The player, widely cross-browser and cross-platform compatible, can be used with many types of images, movies, and other media types. This version uses the Yahoo API but it is compatible with several other flavors. The player is standards-compliant, is skinnable, and comes with good documentation and developer support.

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New pages in CCE use layouts built with only CSS positioning. We created this CSS Positioning Guide in order to explain the basic structure of this semantic ordering of pages.

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This version uses javascript for the animation and swfObject to create a player on the fly. All of the video urls are hardcoded into arrays in the javascript. Ideally a production version of this player would load a playlist from a video hosting service at runtime.

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This video player is populated using an RSS feed from CLA's MediaMill. The playlist, thumbnails, video content, and metadata is loaded at runtime and displayed using the Flash player. The MP4 format is used to enable compatability with iTunes. NOTE: currently MP4 playback is broken in IE7.

Media Mill is a project launched by the CLA Office of Information Technology (CLA-OIT) to archive and distribute video and audio content.

The prototype multiplayer was developed by the CCE New Media Group

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Click to play/pause.
Mouse wheel to move forward/back.
View Large Version

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]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ccemedia/nmg/2008/01/video_entries.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ccemedia/nmg/2008/01/video_entries.html Video Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:05:21 -0600 Web 2.0: Not a Web of Pages -- A Web of Data BBC - Radio Labs - Show your workings and Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and its URL both demonstrate a crucial data design issue. I think this relates well to where we need to go with our upcoming CCE web re-design. That is, we need to move toward the notion of one item per URL -- one concept per entry -- rather than packing more and more items into "pages".


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