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16 April 2009
- let's see who has shared things with us
- Amico.S
- Belott.A
- Boyer.T
- Doyle.F
- Dyer.A
- Greenway.R
- Harper.J
- Hays.V
- Jochem.G
- Long.L
- Martin.A
- Mayer.P
- Meacham.A
- Meincke.D
- Moix.N
- Molloy.J
- Rao.N
- Ruswick.C
- Schlenger.L
- Skalla.L
- Stubblefield.C
- Teachey.C
- Tompkins.S
- Witchger.S
- Wood.M
- Zhao.M
- 14 April 2009 - Adam Martin introduced us to Hulu and SearchEngineLand
- 09 April 2009 - David Meincke showed us Librivox
- 07 April 2009 - Natalie Moix showed us Project Wonderful
- 02 April 2009 - Forest Doyle showed us Zotero, and added a comment on his blog post
- 31 March 2009 - Carrie Teachey showed us a helpful shopping site
- 26 March 2009 - we focused on our spreadsheets
- 24 March 2009 - Alice Meacham showed us a helpful site, but hasn't posted it yet
- 19 March 2009 - Matt Wood kept us in touch with popular culture and also with a different way folks can use technology to reach out to their audiences
- 17 March 2009 - Lisa Long showed us the visual thesaurus
- 05 March 2009 - Vanessa Hays showed us picnik.com, a simple, convenient image tool It lets you do the basics like resizing, rotating, cropping, and color and contrast adjustment, as well as apply effects. It's free and it's easy to link it to your flickr, facebook, photobucket, and other such accounts.
- 03 March 2009 - we'll forego them today to allow us more time to work on our documents
- 26 February 2009 - Claire Ruswick showed us free software called Green Print which makes it easier for you to control your printing to save paper
- 24 February 2009 - Gordon Jochem showed us two site where we can find new inspiration because the internet is for creativity and fun as much as it's for work and data.
- 19 February 2009 - Allyson Dyer showed us the open-source Songbird media player
- 17 February 2009 - unless someone really wants to show us something today, I won't ask for a volunteer so that you will have more time to work together on your web sites.
- 12 February 2009 - Jill Molloy showed us a New York Times article about how Google is offering to monitor your electricity usage.
- 10 February 2009 - Jill Harper showed us a BBC story about the completion. She also added to that with a blog posting about the scripting wars.
- 05 February 2009 - Ryan Greenway contributed to our growing list of worries with an introduction to Google Latitude. He expanded on it in his blog posting.
- 03 February
2009 - we had two
- Stephanie Witchger showed us CSSZenGarden, a place where one can obtain free CSS stylesheets. The css Zen Garden is about functional, practical CSS and not the latest bleeding-edge tricks viewable by 2% of the browsing public. The only real requirement we have is that your CSS validates.
- Lauren Schlenger showed us a free password manager called KeePass Password Safe. Her blog post offers some other alternatives as well.
- 29 January 2009 - Tracy Boyer showed us how to take advantage of the Google Cache as well as pointing us to the Intenet Archive and its immense store of web pages
- 27 January 2009 - Stacey Tompkins showed us tinyURL, a tool that transforms a long web address into a short one.
- 22 January 2009 - Pam Mayer showed us In Plain English, a series of easy-to-understand short videos (under 4 minutes) that explains Web 2.0 concepts and other topics. See her blog posting for more information.
- 20 January 2009 - Neeri Rao showed us a New York Times article that asked if YouTube could replace Google as a research tool. She added to the topic at her blog posting.
- 15 January 2009 - Carrie Stubblefield spoke to us about the Martin Luther King, Jr. papers. The collection is also accessible via the web. Bridget Lerette, Archives & Special Collections Processing Archivist is a graduate of SILS and was a student in this class in 2000. Dr. Meredith Evans-Raiford, another SILS grad was one of the earlier materials curators, but she has now moved on to GWU.
- 13 January 2009 - Rob Moore (from a previous class) showed the email riddler, one way to simultaneously give people an email link to reach you while hiding that link from spam link harvesters.
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