June 01, 2006
New and improved "Recent Posts"
I've updated the "Recent Posts" listing on our blogs homepage.
In the past, when you selected an article it took you to the main page of that article's blog. The new version now takes you directly to each article. Also, until recently we could only include articles from blogs.usask.ca in this list, but I'm now using an RSS aggregator to include other campus blogs as well.
We show up to 12 articles in Recent Posts. Use the "More..." link to see more articles. You can choose to see the full articles or just the titles by using the "overview/details" link on that page.
The Recent Posts list is updated every 20 minutes.
Posted by elf123 at 01:14 PM
April 02, 2006
HigherEd Blogcon Starts April 3 and Week 1 Focuses on Teaching in Higher Education
HigherEd BlogCon runs from April 3-28 and will the topic of "transforming academic communities with new tools of the social web" and the sessions (except a couple of workshops from CASE) are freely available to anyone who can participate by listening to podcasts, reading, commenting and discussing the presentations.
Some of the teaching related topics include:
- An empirical test of blogging in the classroom
- Blogs as personal learning environments
- How the integrated use of blogs and Blackboard can improve a university public relations class: A case study
Each week has a theme.
Week 1 April 3-7 - Teaching
Week 2 April 10-14 - Library and Information Resources
Week 3 April 17-21 - Admissions, Alumni Relations, and Communications & Marketing
Week 4 April 24-28 - Websites & Web Development
Posted by dmf527 at 03:39 AM
March 21, 2006
Blog Upgrade on March 21 - complete
We have upgraded our blog server to Movable Type 3.2.
You can find a full description of what's changed in version 3.2 of Movable Type by reading the ChangeLog section of the Movable Type manual:
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/3.2/h_changelog/#entry-5869Briefly, though, here are a few notable changes:
- Improved handling of comment and trackback spam via the SpamLookupplugin.
- An easy way to backup your templates using the TemplateRefresh plugin.
- An easy way to change the appearance of blogs via the StyleCatcher plugin. This provides a point-and-click interface that lets you select styles from a template library.
Posted by kvl014 at 10:25 AM
January 24, 2006
Blog Service mentioned in On Campus News
The December 2, 2005 edition of On Campus news has an article entitled "U of S now open for blogging. The article discusses the new blog service, the choice of Movable Type as the blogging platform, and other information about the service.Posted by kvl014 at 09:25 AM
September 20, 2005
Northern Voice 2006
Northern Voice - call for speakers, event information, etc. Location: Vancouver, BC. In 2005, this conference was co-organized by UBC and attracted alot of attention.