This Friday @digitalVU:
Engaging Students with New Technologies in the Classroom

Join us in the Kennedy Center on Friday for our monthly digitalVU meeting. Derek Bruff, senior lecturer and assistant director of the Center for Teaching, will be giving a presentation on technology in the classroom—useful not only for those who interact with students, but also for anyone wanting to learn more about interactive and digital friendly presentations.

Presenting ideas and responding to student questions are two fundamental classroom activities.  Teachers at Vanderbilt and elsewhere are experimenting with a variety of technologies to enhance these two activities. Derek will introduce you to a few of these tools. Web services Flickr and Prezi can be used to improve the visual components of presentations, and classroom response systems—using clickers, smart phones, and Twitter—can create more interactive and responsive classroom dynamics.

See you Friday @ 10 a.m. in
Kennedy Center MRL 241.

Ideas for digitalVU month?

It's that time of year again ... October is digitalVU month. Do you have a presentation you'd like to give? Do you want to learn about a new technology or equipment?

Email us your ideas »

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10 Things I Learned In Web School

(1) You can influence your audience on the web, but you can't control them (3) Whoever can frame the problem best, is the most likely to solve it (8) Organization, interaction, and presentation are the top-level considerations for any website or application design » Read them all.

How do you display complex data? Check out these amazing infographics

Information Graphics allow us to visualize data — using a variety of colors, objects such as maps, signs, and typographic elements — for a much easier understanding of complex information. » GO

Code Snippets

For reference ... code snippets for htaccess, php, wordpress, jQuery, CSS, etc. If you use Coda or textmate - you can add it to your coda clips with the click of a button! » GO

More snippets available @ snippler... and... here are some jQuery snippets.

digitalVU email list

Know someone who needs to get on the digitalVU email list? Subscribe to the digitalVU email list by sending an email to listserv@list.vanderbilt.edu with subscribe digitalvu in the body of the email.

next digitalVU meeting:

Friday, August 27      
10 – 11 a.m.
Kennedy Center MRL 241

the latest from web comm

We've started a blog in University Web Communications - including site launches, how to articles, announcements about upcoming events and web environment changes.

- it's the easiest way to always know what's going on in web development at Vanderbilt.

Check it out!

iPhone app

Have you checked out Vanderbilt's new mobile app? Campus news, map, events, video, photos, twitter, etc - all wrapped into one!

You can also download the standalone apps for iPhone and Android phones: dining, maps and events.

GO MOBILE »

got ning?

The Vanderbilt web community is on NING. Join the discussion: network with other developers, create interest groups, post videos, links, ask/answer questions on the forum, etc. GO »

Vshare

Vshare is a web-enabled temporary file distribution site. The service is designed to be used as temporary storage for files too large for email attachments.