Using Images with WordPress
You can find lots of copyright-free images via the Library of Congress’s online collection, which is where I found this cool ship. I realized the other day that I’ve been a contributor and the editor...
View ArticleDebugging Your Image Problems: Help for New Website Admins
Learning about “bugs” and debugging. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Since joining W&M’s IT department in 2008, I have seen a lot of messed up websites. Some of them are beyond help —...
View ArticleThe W&M-China Initiative: Digital Learning in Cross-Cultural Pedagogy
Skyping between W&M and Beijing Normal University students. Skype is an excellent digital tool for promoting cross-cultural learning. This is a guest post by Emily Wilcox, Visiting Assistant...
View ArticleFinding Images for Your Web Content
If you’ve ever created a website or written a blog post, you’ve probably thought about adding images to your site. But where do you find images that are safe to use without having to worry about...
View ArticleOnline Assignments and Student Privacy
A redacted FBI document on “flying saucers.” The more that instructors incorporate online writing assignments into their courses, the more we need to think about the issues surrounding student-produced...
View ArticleFive Selfish Reasons to Blog
Often people discuss blogs in terms of their public expression … sharing information and experiences, creating a community, disseminating your ideas to a potentially large audience, etc. Obviously the...
View ArticleWordPress vs Tumblr: Not All Blogging Software Is Created Equal
I was helping a faculty member set up a WordPress website for his course and we were having a little conceptual trouble converting what he wanted to be able to do into an actual working site. He wanted...
View ArticleHow to Effectively Use Blogging in Your Course
If you have read any or all of my previous posts, you may have picked up on the fact that I tend to stray a bit from the typical Academic Technology Blog contribution tactic that many of my colleagues...
View ArticleThe Digital Migration of Online Communities
Migration image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Online communities are tenuous things. In the text-only olden days of the Internet, they were all in the same neighborhood — a collection of topical...
View ArticleFlipped Classrooms at Blackboard Faculty Day
Another successful Blackboard Faculty Day was held on September 23rd throughout the day. Over thirty faculty members attended workshops on flipped classrooms, the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program,...
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