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Archive for June, 2008

General Assembly 2008

June 22, 2008 at 10:46 pm · Filed under Religious and tagged: , ,

Logo for PCUSA General Assembly

One of my most memorable experiences was as a commissioner to General Assembly in 1992. Ever since that experience, I have followed the proceedings as best as I could. I will continue to do that this year as well. I will use the new PC-Biz to help. If you are interested, you can check out this site and you may find some very interesting information!

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Father’s Day 2008

June 15, 2008 at 7:24 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Happy Father’s Day to everyone who has ever had a Father and to everyone who actually is a Father!

Today is a day to celebrate the memory of your Father on this earh or not. Here is a great Link of sources:

Father’s day 2008

I have many thoughts about today… Maybe later…

 

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Internet Down/Virus Attack and Weather Issues

June 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Sorry I have not posted this week! I have a lot to catch up with!

My home internet has been down and still is! It comes and goes. I have a designated DSL line at the home, but it has always acted up during bad weather. It also goes down when the telephone lineman steals my pair/pare! (sp) DSL lines do not give out a tone, so they they often think that the line is free to take for someone’s phone. (It has gone down 4xs as I write this!)

Additionally on my work laptop, I have been dealing with a Trojan Worm/ Vongo that inserts a different URL in between each click to another URL. It came to me already infected and I was successful at taking off 12 of the viruses. Finally, I just had my tech person wipe the whole thing clean. Let’s see if it worked!

Anyway, I have a lot more to share about the workshop and some pictures to post from GSU’s graduation Saturday.

I hope everyone is safe and recovering from the tornado’s and storms!

More soon!

Maribeth

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Day 2 at GSU FSI-Maribeth’s Notes

June 3, 2008 at 9:02 am · Filed under Higher Education, technology and tagged: ,

Today’s first speaker is Dr. Jason Rhode from NIU who addressed Media Mashups. He shared the following ways to view his information:

www.niu.edu/~jrhode

feeds.feedburner.com/rhodetalks

del.icio.us/jrhode

citeulike.org/user/jrhode

More wonderful links for me to learn about and share!!!!

Jason’s views on Social Bookmarking:
web-based sharing of Internet bookmarks

Remixing RSS:
creating customized RSS feeds and information content from multiple source feeds

  • Yahoo! Pipes
    powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
  • Feed Informer
    create customized RSS digests combining multiple RSS feeds
  • Feed2JS
    free service for building javascript command for embedding the contents of an RSS feed in a website
  • Google News
    search and browse news sources; create custom news RSS feeds
  • Yahoo! News
    aggregated news feeds from Yahoo!
  • WebRSS
    free service for generating code to publish RSS feeds to your site

Jason’s Presentations+Audio:
presentations shared online with synchronized audio

Next today was A New Look At the Library of Congress by Luci Sweder and Sandi Estep

Then Shirley Comer on Podcasting

And Thinkfinity and Edsitement by Luci Sweder

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GSU Faculty Summer Technology Institute

June 2, 2008 at 10:19 am · Filed under Education & Learning, Higher Education, technology and tagged: , ,

Today I am participating at the GSU Faculty Summer Technology Institute. The first presenter’s were great! Jeff Hunt and David Jakes.

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