Miscellaneous

Revised: 2006-06-15 devin

Table Of Contents
  • Creating a Learning Management System with Moodle & Flash
    • This presentation will detail how the Marriott Library Multimedia Center has built a LMS for staff training using moodle & Flash MX Pro. There will be a brief overview of what a LMS is, what is needed to create one, followed by a demonstration of the system, including an interactive exam designed in Flash MX Pro. Also, there will be an overview of Moodle, which is a open source course management system (CMS).

  • DIY iSync Phone Plugin
    • Goes over my experiences in creating a custom iSync phone plugin. Gives basic overview of iSync plugins and mobile phone sync technologies.

  • Grant Application Workaround
    • Workaround for users who are running Mac OS 10.4 on PPC Macs have not been able to run the IBM Workplace Forms Viewer (PureEdge) provided by the grants.gov website since installing the April security update for 10.4.

  • Info Kiosk System
    • This presentation covered the College of Law's subscription based informational kiosks, named Display & Alert Network or DAN. That allows campus colleges, departments, groups easily manage & customize information using a web browser and have it displayed on one or multiple kiosks with the same info on all kiosks or customized info for each location or a subset.

  • iPod Checkout, Managment & Customization
    • The Marriott Library is proud to announce iPods for checkout to students, staff & faculity through a federal grant made possible by The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

  • IT Journal
    • The campus's new mail system with an Exchange backend. Craig will discuss concerns for Mac users like support, features, and accessing mail through Entourage 2004 or web interface.

  • iTunes Shared Music - Finding Machine
    • This is documentation covers tracking down the IP address of a remote machine using sharing music with iTunes.

  • Magnolia Content Management System
    • Magnolia is the leading open-source content-management-system (CMS). The main goal of the Magnolia Suite is the ease of use for all parties involved. Magnolia Content Management features a very flexible structure, platform-independence through the use of Java and XML, a simple to use API, templating through the use of JSP, JSTL and a custom tag library, automatic administrative UI generation, transparent and uniform data access to multiple data repositories, configuration through XML, application integration and deployment with professional staging on any J2EE Server. This presentation will provide an overview of the basic concepts and relationships inside Magnolia. You should walk away understanding the essentials and be able to deploy your own Magnolia CMS in just a few minutes.

  • New Campus Mail System (UMail) & Mac Clients
    • The campus's new mail system with an Exchange backend. Craig will discuss concerns for Mac users like support, features, and accessing mail through Entourage 2004 or web interface.

  • Online Self-Service Scheduling System
    • This presentation will detail how the Marriott Library Multimedia Center has built an Online Self-Scheduling system for student, staff and faculty to use. The system is based on open source software thats allows for future development and expansion. There will be an explanation of how we are using a public directory to authenticate users and assign privileges. Also, demonstration of system and how to use the administration tools to manage resources and permissions. To date the system has over 4700+ reservations and 100+ users. Overview of the programming and installation processes.

  • PowerPC Applications Crash on Launch on Intel Mac's
    • As of Mac OS X 10.4.7, there is a bug with Rosetta running on Intel Mac's, where sometimes PowerPC applications , such as Word or Photoshop would crash on launch. There are a couple of workarounds the issue, one restarting the Intel Mac or killing the process called translated.

  • Remote GUI Login
    • here are times in educational or other environments, you might want to quickly login a group of Mac's like in a classroom in situations where attendee's might not be affiliated with the university and be using temporary guest accounts. You can use Apple Remote Desktop's, Send Unix command to accomplish this task.

  • Second Life
    • "Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 8,706,410 Residents from around the globe." - secondlife.com "Campuses and businesses have established locations in these [virtual] worlds, much as they were creating websites a dozen years ago... Virtual worlds offer an opportunity for people to interact in a way that conveys a sense of presence lacking in other media... The use of virtual worlds in education has grown considerably over the past year. Courses now meet in Second Life and other locations." - 2007 Horizon Report

  • Software Licensing-Office 2008 & Mac Updates
    • The campus Software Licensing discussed Office 2008 & Entourage 2008 availability & licensing. Also, discussed new Mac software download availability and answer questions from the group.

  • Virtual Classroom Schedule
    • This will be an overview of the "virtual schedule" that will replace the paper schedules on the doorways of the classrooms and labs. It is a Mac Mini mounted to the wall with power and network, it has a flat panel display securely mounted on top of the mini and is locked. Behind the scenes is a screen saver called IdleWeb which will display a web site on a screen saver. The web site loaded is a set of custom pages that rotate between the Room Number, The Schedule for the Room, and a .php page that will check the Library's schedule database to see if there is a class in session.