Author Archives: Miranda

Is it worth it?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Miranda

Now that I’ve gone through the capstone process, I wonder if its worth going on with it. That is, the installation itself is working fine (although there are some updates I need to do) but the way I see it … Continue reading →

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Ticking along

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Miranda

The slowdown in the dashboard appeared to be from the Whipple Hill plugin. The install is functioning as it should now and I just updated the server OS without any issues (although I did make a clone of the server … Continue reading →

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The technical piece

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Miranda

The technical piece takes so much time that I wonder sometimes if I will ever make any progress with marketing blogging to students. We have been having horrible slow-downs in the dashboard of some blogs and I am not sure … Continue reading →

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A continual battle

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Miranda

It seems to be a continual battle on the technical front. The Whipple Hill plugin does work for the SSO and there are three new privacy options: I would like only logged in users to see my blog. I would … Continue reading →

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Technical matters

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Miranda

In order to install the Whipple Hill Podium plugin, we had to recompile PHP with mcrypt. I hired this out through vWorker. However, Medic, my favorite programmer from Beklgrade couldn’t do anything without having the server OS upgraded so I … Continue reading →

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a conversation

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Miranda

I had a conversation with the photography student this afternoon and she’s not very enthusiastic about an online portfolio. So it goes. I have another candidate in mind, at least he’s very good and has done some fabulous work.

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a Marketing and HCI lesson

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Miranda

The squib in the Daily Bulletin about the Digital Photography site drew a lot of interest from parents and they were stakeholders that I had completely forgotten would be reading the Daily Bulletin. Kathleen gave me a very good precís … Continue reading →

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Sigh.. marketing snafu

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Miranda

I had been waiting for the students to get back from Thanksgiving in order to begin steering them to KUAPress and the Digital Photography site so this morning I went down to see the woman responsible for sending out the … Continue reading →

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the digital photography site

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Miranda

One of the problems I had with the digital photography site, aside from the fact that it is hard to get any photos out of the class, has been what might seem like a minor detail – how to attribute … Continue reading →

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Why do People Write?

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Miranda

I wrote earlier in Case Three about the blog set up by Ms. Gray to try to spark discussion on why authors write. She asked me to come down and chat with her about it so I stopped into her … Continue reading →

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