For those of you attending the NAGAP session on Tools, Tips, and Tricks in Personal and Workgroup Productivity, welcome! Here is a link to the wiki where the session materials are based.
Tools, Tips, and Tricks in Personal and Workgroup Productivity
Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk about Second Life in Higher Education at the CASE conference in Baltimore. Here are the links to resources I mentioned, plus many additional links I promised I would post. This is new territory for many - only one person in a room of 100+ acknowledged being a SL resident.
A big thanks to the many people who’ve written inspiring pieces and posted videos about what’s happening in with education in Second Life. Just a few of them are listed below.
Reference
Wikipedia - Wikipedia SL page
Institutions in Second Life
List of Institutions in SL - SimTeach.com
Education and SL - Beth Ritter-Guth’s wiki page on Second Life in Higher Education
University of Alaska Fairbanks - Slideshow on using Second Life for Education
Ohio University - SL promo video
Harvard Berkman Center/Law - Article 1, Article 2
CyberOne - Law in the Court of Public Opinion (See the video promoting the live and SL-based course)
Rockcliffe University SL Campus - Campus Tour
Marketing Viewpoints
Don Philabaum – SL and advancement
Michael Stoner – Better things to do?
DMW Media - Develop a long term marketing presence
Brandweek - Are marketers dying in Second Life?
Om Malik – why Marketing doesn’t work in SL
GM/Pontiac - Pontiac wants to create a car culture in SL
Things to explore about Second Life
Read the news - http://www.metaversemessenger.com/
List of things to do in SL - Twelve things to do in SL
Interviews, in-lifes, commercials, how-to’s, and more- Second Life Videos
Colgate’s Tim O’Keefe is blogging. He’s looking for feedback about CMS’s.
Tim, I think we’re about to see an uptick in Drupal installations on college websites. Why? It’s simple, lightweight, produces incredibly clean HTML (underscore that), has tons of community-oriented features we all love (forums, blogs, RSS aggregate and publish, etc.), and is easy to maintain without a staff of IT programmers. Oh, and new modules are being added every day by the thousands of developers in the Drupal community.
At Drupalsites.net there’s a running list of sites that use Drupal.
Are there any of you out there using Drupal as part of a college website?
We’ve been seeing lots of submissions of podcast and RSS index pages, blogs, and and other cool pages that aren’t RSS feeds. So I’ve added a new node in the College and University Feed Directory for non-RSS links. As soon as it starts to grow, we’ll put some structure around it.
Bring on your links!
I have my wife to thank for teaching me this one. If you have mutliple Google/Gmail accounts, and you use Google Analytics under one of those, you’ve probably experienced the inconvenience of having to log out of one Google account in order to log into the other to see your Google Analytics stats. Well there’s an easy way around this, and it’s a big time-saver.
1- Go into your Analytics Settings screen within Google Analytics.
2- Click the Edit link for the profile you want to share with another account.
3- Near the bottom of the screen there is the option to Add a new user
4- Type in the Gmail address of the person to whom you’d like to grant access
5- If you’re granting the same person access to multiple website profiles, they’re considered an existing user after the first time
This also works well if you want to share your Google Analytics information (in read-only more, if you choose) with someone else who has a Gmail account. There are three or four of us at the office, and this trick allows us to share a single Google Analytics account for the sites we’re managing, all while being logged into our own Gmail accounts.
In order to access your Google Analytics account from your Gmail screen, click “more” from the top menu. The first choice then is Analytics.
That’s the big question, isn’t it?
Paul Baker and I will be appearing in a browser near you tomorrow at 1 pm EDT to share as much as we can share on the topic in 90 minutes.
It looks like registrations are still open. Check the Academic Impressions page for more info.
Many thanks to Paul for the invitation to co-pilot on this one, and to Academic Impressions for hosting.
