Emerging Technologies in STC

Here’s a condensed version of the ways you defined what a successful project would look like. (They're in no particular order.)

• Simply making the site a reality
• Creating a site that stands out from the rest
• Creating an audience-focused site
• Creating a clean, coherent, interesting, engaging product
• Giving back to the community
• Developing a community centered around the site
• Continuing contributions past the end of the semester
• Creating a well-filtered resource
• Integrating truly useful searchability
• Easy navigation
• Creating a useful classification schema
• Balancing quality and quantity of information
• Hitting 100% accuracy, or as close to it as we can get
• Integrating links to primary resources
• Integrating rich media

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What should our blog name be?

Awhile back, I asked you folks what we should name the course blog. Several of you had some interesting ideas about that. Please vote on the one you'd like to see us use. (All responses are anonymous.) Urgent Emergents Connectonomics Aspiration Toward Collaboration Web 2.0.4.6.6.2 The Neo-Techno Shift Socially Climactic Technologies Heck, let's just keep "Emerging Tech in STC" Current Results

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How in the world did we manage not to have a 35W Bridge Collapse category from the get-go? That's fixed now, and I appropriately categorized the relevant entries.

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1. I’ve added our del.icio.us to the sidebar.

2. People besides you are reading this blog. Some of my colleagues (both here at UMN and other places) have stopped by, and have commented on how smart you folks are sounding here. And Jenny blogged about her "talk" with us over on the Intuit Innovation Labs blog, which means some Intuit folks have stopped by as well. (In a perfect world they'd have left lots of comments for you, but instead we'll just consider this proof of all the research on lurking, eh?)

3. With Hillary's permission, I’ve updated one of her blog entries with embedded video of the Dick Hardt presentation she linked to. If you're interested in the future of identity security in online environments, you should carve out 15 minutes to watch it. I teach with this video all the time — just not in this class. (Also, the other thing she talks about there is totally true: I am indeed available for IM appointments, and I generally find that they’re helpful for everybody involved. Don’t be afraid to set up one.)

Posted by Krista at 12:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

FYI fellow techies:

I was dealt the dual blow this week of a) internet breakdown, and b) water dumped into the laptop (I couldn't even look at my cat for a few hours). Internet is now fully functional again, but fate of the laptop is unknown. Currently drying out for "a few days" as the mac person instructed me. I'm borrowing a friend's for the moment...so I'm sorry I've been MIA for the last few days. There are a few notes from some of you which I intend to respond to momentarily! Also can't seen to remember my twitter password without my computer's help...trying to resolve that, hence I'm posting here.

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Hey guys... this week has been pretty intense especially with the workload and responsibilities of twitter, facebook, delicious, flickr, pimping out your firefox browser, and especially our blog posts. I was feeling a little on edge about my topic, which is using flickr and downloading images of 35W bridge collapse under the creative common licenses. First of all I had never used flickr before, and I did not know how to search items under CC licensing. I posted a twitter to Krista and asked when she would be online because my schedule was too busy to see her in person. I chatted with her online and she walked me through step by step on how I could go about collecting images under CC licensing. She was incredibly helpful and it did not take me long to figure out what I was doing... the IM experience was well worth it. Krista's screen name is iamkristak in case you forgot. Don't be afraid to holler at her. She is here to help guys.

By the way.... the identity 2.0 presentation I linked on the group wiki page is below... if you haven't seen it now is your chance
Hilary, signing off!!!

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I've changed the template so as to better accommodate embedded media. Nobody panic.

Posted by Krista at 05:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

I’d love to give our blog a better name than the rather bland "Emerging Technologies in STC," but I’m coming up dry on this one. If you've got idea, leave it in the comments. Best one wins!

Update 1/26/08: I’m moving this up top just in case anyone missed it before. Great responses so far, but more is always better for this kind of thing.

Posted by Krista at 01:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

As I mentioned in the email, you’ll need to change the way your name appears on the blog. Right now, it shows your full first and last names. You should modify this to show your first name and last initial. This will shield the writing you do here from Google searches for your full name.

To change the information, you’ll begin by logging on to Uthink at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/. Click on the "Login to UThink" link at the top of the sidebar.

(You can click on any of these images to see a larger version.)

Once you’ve logged on, you’ll see the main MoveableType menu. Your screen won't have all of the same blogs that mine does, of course.

Click on the welcome link with your x500 ID at the upper right corner.

That’ll take you to the Author Profile screen, which is pretty self-explanatory. (I’m not screencapping it here because I don’t want to release my ID to the world.) Update your info, click “save changes”, and you should be good to go.

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