Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
When we first launched Moodle at Lafayette, we ran a short series of podcasts called “The Moodle Minute” aimed at introducing folks to basic concepts associated with the new learning management system. Each episode ran about a minute, and while we had a lot of fun brain storming them, we just didn’t have enough time … Read more
I spent the first week of July 2009 hanging out with my family at our friends’ cabin on Butler Island, on Lake Champlain (on the Vermont side of the lake). We had a blast; our friends have twin 3-year-old boys who love hanging out with our son, who’s also three, and our 6-year-old daughter was … Read more
A number of people at Lafayette have been reporting a problem with Dreamweaver 8 no longer retaining their username and password information for their web sites. It turns out that the problem is Internet Explorer 7 (and 8); if you have either of these installed on your computer, it breaks Dreamweaver’s ability to save username … Read more
It’s been quite around here, partly because we’ve been working so hard to get WordPress MU up to speed, and partly because I was on vacation for two weeks. We’ve made a lot of progress on the WordPress front: sites.lafayette.edu, the successor to the pilot MU installation, is now online (and hosting this blog). It’s … Read more
WordPress MU 2.7.1 removed the Admin Toolbar as a standard plugin. It threw Courtney, Jason and I for a bit of a loop, as we’d come to rely on the toolbar to quickly navigate our WordPress MU install. It’s not a critical thing, but it sure is convenient. A quick twitter ping about the fate … Read more
Because the world needs more LEGOs, I present you with … A Lego A Day (For a Year) which offers a photo a day of a minifig (aka LEGO people). I’m coming in on the tail end of this, and I can only hope that the creator re-ups it for another year…
When it comes to editing wikis, I’m fine with using wiki code. It’s simple, easy to use, and it does what I want it to do. That said, I can see how it can frustrate some people (aka my co-workers) so I carved out some time today to work on installing the CKEditor extension into … Read more
Card sorts are an information architecture tool used to help discover how people would organize information on your web site if they ran the zoo. The idea is that you give people a bunch of cards labeled with web page names and then ask them to sort them into piles. They then label the piles, … Read more
Winter is over, spring is in the air and the Easton Farmers Market returns this weekend! Our family makes regular pilgrimages down from College Hill to the Easton Centre Square because of the Farmers Market throughout the late spring, summer and fall, and I’m looking forward to getting back into the habit. An added bonus is that May … Read more