University of Utah Web Resources -- Best Practices for the Web
(CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE)
Are campuses unwittingly punishing faculty for using technology in their teaching?
http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=10067
CONVENIENCE, CONNECTION, AND CONTROL (EDUCAUSE)
Among the findings of this ECAR study is that students
prefer to take classes that use a moderate amount of
technology and they highly rate those technologies which
enable them to communicate with faculty. Students said the
greatest asset of technology was the convenience it afforded
them; only 12% said its most valuable benefit was improved
learning. Course management systems continue to be used
extensively, although the study found that the features that
students consider most beneficial to learning are least used
by faculty.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ers0405/Ekf0405.pdf
The University of Saskatchewan has a list of journals that offer RSS feeds.
Podcasting Podcasting (page includes lots of useful references) is "push[ing] audio content from websites down to consumers of that content, who typically listen to it on their iPod (hence the "pod"), or another audio player that supports the MP3 format, at their convenience."
"Podcasting uses an XML-based technology called RSS, or Really Simple Syndication. Content publishers describe new content in an XML RSS file which includes dates, titles, descriptions, and links to MP3 files. This auto-generated file is called an RSS feed."
Edupodder.com covers the use of podcasting in education.
Seattle University Campus Calendar
This is pretty cool -- I think it's a homegrown application. Nice features:
- day, week, and month views
- user-submittable events, with logins
- ASP-/ASPX-based
- subcalendar feature
Subject: Re: Web Calendars
From: "Justin Vamenta"
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:53:55 -0400
X-Message-Number: 43
Here at Seattle University, we tackled this issue within the last two
years. In the end, we decided not to combine our facilities scheduling
system with promoting events on the public web site in order to give us
maximum flexibility with distributing calendar information across SU's
family of web sites. Below is some information on our Campus Calendar
system:
Any SU user can submit an event to the Campus Calendar; Within two days, submissions is screened and published here:
http://www.seattleu.edu/go/calendar/
Our Public Relations team screens these events and hand picks those ideal for placement on the SU home page:
http://www.seattleu.edu/
All events must be categorized by subject and audience in order to
sprinkle contextual news and events on the interior pages (right-side) of
the public web site:
http://www.seattleu.edu/home/prospective_students/
Last year's Phase II project included a "subcalendar" feature for approved SU groups. These subcalendars allow certain users (or groups of users) to manage their own calendars:
http://www.seattleu.edu/events/sc_showAll.asp
Subcalendars can easily be published to other SU web sites:
http://alumniweb.seattleu.edu/netcommunity/Page.aspx?&pid=221
We now offer our Academic Calendar (previously PDF-only based) in
subcalendar format. http://www.seattleu.edu/events/list_ac.asp?D=11/29/2004&V=3&SC=30
All events appearing on the Campus Calendar can be shared/published on other subcalendars. For example, this event appears on both the
Registrar's and Student Activities' Calendars but was submitted once:
http://www.seattleu.edu/events/detail.asp?SID=2454&SC=25
We also provide a basic RSVP email feature:
http://www.seattleu.edu/events/rsvp_email.asp?SID=2980&SC=25
We do have other ideas, but decided to put them on hold since there are so many other cool projects to be working on. I doubt you're interested but you can find more information regarding the Campus Calendar project and others on Blueprint, our project web site.
I hope this was helpful! -Justin