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Presentation: Technology in the Classroom
Aug. 27, 2010—Derek Bruff, senior lecturer and assistant director of the Center for Teaching, gave a presentation in the August 27 digitalVU meeting on technology in the classroom—useful not only for those who interact with students, but also for those wanting to learn more about interactive and digital friendly presentations. I think everyone got a little something...
Software Store launched in time for Move In weekend!
Aug. 23, 2010—ITS contacted our office for some assistance in trying to simplify their software store options. There are now two stores — and depending upon who you are and how you will pay for the products — you need to go to different stores. There are products that you can buy at both stores; some manufacturers only...
Department of Political Science launches website
Aug. 20, 2010—Our work with the Department of Political Science has truly been a pleasure. They’ve been extremely organized and were very invested in building out an informative and useful website for their department. We worked primarily with associate professors Cindy Kam, Josh Clinton and Elizabeth Zechmeister. One thing I appreciated most about working with PSCI: they...
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions website launches
Aug. 20, 2010—We worked with CSDI co-director and assistant professor Josh Clinton on migrating the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions website. Previously – this was a site maintained manually with no centralized content management system. Within a two weeks period, we moved the content into Omni, redesigned it with a new color scheme, banner, slider...
Research on Individuals, Politics & Society website launch
Aug. 20, 2010—We worked with faculty members Cindy Kam and Elizabeth Zechmeister on migrating the Research on Individuals, Politics & Society website. Previously – this was a site maintained manually with no centralized content management system. Within a two weeks period, we moved the content into Omni, redesigned it with a new color scheme, banner, slider images,...
Center for Teaching launches new website
Aug. 8, 2010—Loved working on this site! CFT wanted to combine three separate sites they were maintaining into one with the new CFT website — their existing website, the CFT Podcast and the CFT blog. They had been maintaining the existing site entirely in Dreamweaver and were very happy to start using a content management system. We migrated...
Undergraduate Admissions moves into Omni
Aug. 8, 2010—We had a quick turnaround request from Undergraduate Admissions – their webmaster was going on leave and they needed to be in a system that would allow several users to update the site in his absence. With the workflow they needed – several editors, one publisher – we knew Omni was the perfect solution for...
myVU gets brand bar, php templates and more!
Jul. 22, 2010—This was another fairly quick template swap. The old myVU templates were xsl, we moved them over to php, updated some stylesheets, added the VU brandbar, added a new video player that displays videos from the VUCast playlist and launched. We’ll be cleaning up the site over the coming weeks – but our goal was...
Submit KeyMatches for the google search appliance
Jun. 30, 2010—A KeyMatch associates a specific term with a particular result, enabling you to direct users to a result that is especially relevant but that might not appear at the top of the results page. For example, if someone were to search for “event”, we can make sure that the top result for that search will...
New Vanderbilt News site launched; new video player available campus-wide
Jun. 21, 2010—Keeping up with the latest news from Vanderbilt is now easier than ever. The redesigned Vanderbilt News website launched June 14, featuring a dramatic new look, a robust new back end and features that are available for all Vanderbilt departments. New features and technology available Video is a focal point of the new site, showcasing...
Chancellor website migrated
Jun. 17, 2010—The Chancellor’s site was pretty quickly migrated into the new Vanderbilt look, as it runs on WordPress. We simply swapped out the theme – did a quick check to be sure everything was working correctly, and it was live and updated. You gotta love content management systems and swapping out themes :)
YouTube Channel Branding Begins
Jun. 16, 2010—In an effort to try to brand the various YouTube channels that are in existence across the Vanderbilt community – today we updated the look of the main Vanderbilt YouTube channel and the Athletics channel. The Medical Center is finalizing their banner and will be updating their channel soon. With these three, we have the...