I've created a super short survey about banner images. Remember this website used to have a banner image? I removed it about two weeks ago so you could have the experience (pre/post) of seeing a website with banner image and without. Now let me know which is the better version for you! In turn this will help me tremendously as I design course websites for next semester. The survey needs to be completed before you leave class tonight.
Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Banner Image Removed
I'm trying an experiment. For some of you it may be easier to navigate the website if the banner image or header image is removed. I'd like to hear feedback about whether you prefer the banner image, or prefer the website as it is now (without banner image). After our next class I'll change back to a banner image showing if that's the preference of the class.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Home Page Updates
There have been two recent updates to the Home page. So, if you automatically come to this News page first, then let me tell you why you may want to check out the Home page:
PBS Movie
I've added a 7 minute movie made by Frontlines at PBS titled, "How Google Saved a School." Important for learning statistics? No. Perhaps useful to see how one NYC school is starting to incorporate technology? Yes. And their choice of software is Google Docs, the same suite of software I use for creating surveys and collecting data in this class.
Disqus Personalized
Some of you have still not personalized your Disqus account with an intuitive display name and an avatar. Instead of a movie I've posted a pop-up image gallery that shows you how to do these changes in 5 easy steps. Check it out!
PBS Movie
I've added a 7 minute movie made by Frontlines at PBS titled, "How Google Saved a School." Important for learning statistics? No. Perhaps useful to see how one NYC school is starting to incorporate technology? Yes. And their choice of software is Google Docs, the same suite of software I use for creating surveys and collecting data in this class.
Disqus Personalized
Some of you have still not personalized your Disqus account with an intuitive display name and an avatar. Instead of a movie I've posted a pop-up image gallery that shows you how to do these changes in 5 easy steps. Check it out!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
New Commenting System
After investigating the very recent changes to the service I was using for hosting this website's comments, I found their new service to be . . . terrible. Seven days ago the company I was using completely changed their commenting features. Typically this involves refining or expanding features (which would have been fine), but this particular company decided to get rid of almost all of their good features and replace them with marketing hype. So after several hours of thought and work, I've redone this website to work with a new commenting service named Disqus (pronounced discuss).
As of today the Disqus page replaces the old "Discuss" page. Most of you have not added any comments yet, but for those of you that have, you'll need to resubmit. If you made a longish comment then just email me and I can send you the full content of your previous comments.
By far the best way to submit a comment is to first create a Disqus profile. This is very easy as you'll only have two options when adding a comment for the first time: comment as a guest or comment via a Disqus profile. To create a profile click on the DProfile link (see screenshot below).
When you click on the DProfile link up will pop a registration window! You don't even need to go to another website. Here's what it looks like:
The advantage of using a Disqus profile is that it will subsequently be easy to track the various comments of any given person in the class.
I'll briefly discuss the positive features of Disqus at our first class, but amongst those key features is the ability to sort comments, subscribe by email to the complete commenting thread (a big feature), to submit new comments via email, the ability to edit and remove comments, and more. Check it all out at:
As of today the Disqus page replaces the old "Discuss" page. Most of you have not added any comments yet, but for those of you that have, you'll need to resubmit. If you made a longish comment then just email me and I can send you the full content of your previous comments.
By far the best way to submit a comment is to first create a Disqus profile. This is very easy as you'll only have two options when adding a comment for the first time: comment as a guest or comment via a Disqus profile. To create a profile click on the DProfile link (see screenshot below).
When you click on the DProfile link up will pop a registration window! You don't even need to go to another website. Here's what it looks like:
The advantage of using a Disqus profile is that it will subsequently be easy to track the various comments of any given person in the class.
I'll briefly discuss the positive features of Disqus at our first class, but amongst those key features is the ability to sort comments, subscribe by email to the complete commenting thread (a big feature), to submit new comments via email, the ability to edit and remove comments, and more. Check it all out at:
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