Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
CLAC 2015 is getting close. The Consortium of Liberal Arts College’s annual conference is being held at Lafayette College from June 16 to June 18, 2015. This is my first CLAC conference — it’s something I’ve heard people in ITS talk about for years, but it always fell at inopportune times. This year isn’t much … Read more
It’s time to get Moodling again. CLAMP’s Moodle Hack/Doc Fest for Summer 2015 is being held at the College of Holy Cross in June 2015. This is our 16th Hack/Doc, and our first time back in Massachusetts since Summer 2011’s event at Hampshire College. Last summer’s Hack/Doc at Macalester College saw me spending three days … Read more
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice plays with the concepts of gender and identity with the framework of a conventional space opera. The main character is an “ancillary” — essentially a human being who’s consciousness has been overridden an artificial intelligence. That intelligence once controlled an entire starship and dozens of such ancillaries, and over the course … Read more
A test post inserting a video from media.lafayette.edu into a WordPress blog post. This works through the wonders of oEmbed.
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At MUG 2014 we gave away CLAMP clamps — translucent orange magnetic clamps with the word “CLAMP” printed on them. We promptly began to find ways to use these CLAMPs. Got an action shot of your CLAMP clamp? Add a comment below with a link to the picture and I’ll include it in this gallery.
Two weeks ago I came back from HighEdWeb 2014 intent on changing my schedule. Inspired by David Cameron’s (Ithaca College) “Human at Work or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Get Better at My Job” presentation, I decided to re-organize my schedule to more aggressively defend my project time. I’ve been allocating project time in … Read more
