http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net tales of swimming upstream Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:31:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="Human DNA by Grabthar on Flickr (CC-By-NC-SA)"][/caption] I have several posts that I plan on writing about my past weekend at Educon. Before I proceed, let me just get one thing out of the way: this was one of the best conferences I have ever been to. ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2010/02/02/on-teaching-learners/ Aside from last year's Faculty Academy, it's been almost a year and a half since I've attended a conference. This was a personal decision on my part. I chose to come back to UMW part-time after my maternity leave and staying home with my family has been my number-one priority. ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2010/01/25/preparing-to-be-educated-at-educon/ In our offices at DTLT we are all frequently victims of listening to each others' diatribes against any number of forces threatening higher education, online community, and the world, in general. One of Jim Groom's favorite topics to rail about is "Twitter is killing Blogging." (I could go look for a ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2010/01/10/jim-groom-right/ Last semester, when we launched our new DTLT Web site, I was hoping to really use it as a tool for getting the word out to our faculty about news, upcoming events, professional dev. opportunities, and showcase projects. Ideally, I wanted to use it as a hub from which all ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2010/01/07/newsletter/ Okay, now that that's done, let me tell you why I really don't suck after all. (As if there was really any doubt.) As of about a week and a half ago, I am the owner of this Web site and domain. Up until then, the University of Mary Washington (where ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2009/12/18/own-domain/ Several reasons why the above is true: 1. My personal WP blog is so out-of-date in terms of version, I'm embarrassed to tell you what version I'm using. 2. I've been so bad about staying on top of my blog, I just found two nice comments buried in my spam from months ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2009/12/18/horrible-worthless-unworthy/ I've blogged in the past about my endless DTLT Web Site Redesign project. And I've committed myself to regularly blogging about what I'm doing as part of that project. And then, of course, I've promptly broken that commitment. Oops. I guess it's time for an update, and, to start, I want ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2009/09/16/what-lies-within-of-calendars-hidden-data-and-hacked-templates/ I've been thinking a lot lately about my first stint at Mary Washington, now close to 10 years ago. (wow!) I'm not sure why, except that a few things have reminded me about how different the job I have now is compared to the one I had then. In early 2000, ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2009/08/11/a-shameful-confession/ Last week, my family spent a few days visiting family and friends in New York. It was a lovely trip, and, at some point, I plan on blogging about the few days we spent in Chautauqua, NY (where a dear friend of mine and her husband play every summer in ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2009/07/09/purple-boxes-on-the-highway/ A long, long time ago, Rev. Jim blogged about a new theme for Wordpress know as Prologue, which created a Twitter-like front-end on a Wordpress blog. The basic idea is that the authors of the blog can quickly write a short post (a la Twitter) right from the blog's front ... http://wrapping.marthaburtis.net/2009/06/16/a-new-kind-of-blog-enabled-conversation/