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Cloud Computing

Programming and Web Development

If It’s in the Cloud, Get It on Paper: Cloud Computing Contract Issues by Thomas J. Trappler in Educause Quarterly. The article’s focus is on how to mitigate the risks of Cloud Computing through the contract terms with the cloud services provider.If you’re lo...

cloud computing
contracts

Accessibility Demonstration Videos

Programming and Web Development

These videos by the National Foundation for the Blind are helpful in understanding where web apps can fall short of being accessible:http://www.nfb.org/nfb/googleaccessibilityvideos.asp

accessibility

e-book conversion

Useful Links

http://www.2epub.com/ – If you want to convert a file to another format like Kindle’s mobi to the more universal epub or pdf, this online site does it on the fly. http://calibre-ebook.com/ – or download and install Calibre, open-source e-book management and c...

ePub
MOBI
PDF

Manipulating data on Linux

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Linux and Unix

This is an introduction to those using Linux for data analysis for the first time.It came from a post by UCI colleague Harry Mangalam to UC-CSC Mailing List“As an aid to helping students accomplish the basics on one of our clusters, I’ve written up a doc that ...

data
Linux

iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch remote desktop apps

Mobile Devices

A colleague who wishes to remain anonymous asked me to post this. free Mocha rdp – old, relase date 8/20/2008, good resolution 1280×1014, multiple hosts configurations allowed, NO right-click. Only the paid version $5.99 allows right-click. free Wyse Pocketclo...

iPad
Windows

Notes on restoring deleted Moodle Forum

CCLE and Moodle

Someone deleted a Moodle Discussion Forum with 137 posts, and it was urgent to recover it because in that course, these were part of the grade.This is not a guaranteed solution, just a record of what we did. We only attempted it because of the urgency of the s...

Moodle 1.9
sysadmin

How do I delete a page from the KB?

About This Knowledge Base

If you are logged in, you should be able to delete any pages you have written. For other pages, please do not change the title or the content, but add TO BE DELETED as a tag and to the top of the page, with an explanation if necessary. That way it’s easy to se...

Knowledge Base

Evernote Tips

Applications/Software

After using Evernote for 14 months, I finally asked some colleagues if it was possible to search for the checkmark boxes in a note. It turns out that, and some amazing things are very easy. Here’s the tip of the iceberg, and some links to more tips and the pro...

Convert Word Documents to HTML

Useful Links

If the html Microsoft Word gives you is too much, try this conversion site. Based on my one use today, it gave me nice, clean HTML right away.http://word2cleanhtml.com/The only problem I had was that it doesn’t want me to paste in html, just the web version.

conversion
HTML
Microsoft Word

Timeline Generators

Applications/Software

Please add comments if you are familiar with any of these timeline creation tools. Tiki-Toki: Online Timeline Creation Tool Timeline Creation Tool by Casey Miles | Posted March 31st, 2014 and http://www.tiki-toki.com/ The Thinking Behind WNYC’s Vertical Timel...

collaboration
history
open source
timeline

What is Eduroam, how does it work, how prevalent is it on campus and does it use the usual UCLA authentication?

Internet and Web Browsers UCLA Campus Networks

Question posted by Cathy McCannMy understanding is that Eduroam (http://www.eduroam.org/)allows UCLA wireless authentication via either UCLA login, or visitors from other participating schools can log in with their school’s login. 02/2017, https://www.it.ucla....

eduroam
Wi-Fi
WLAN
wireless

EduBlog Awards Blog

Useful Links

According to their site http://edublogawards.com/ “The purpose of the Edublog awards is to promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media. The best aspects include that it creates a fabulous resource for educators to use for ideas on how...

instructional tech
social media
teaching

Translating Higher Ed-Speak from US to UK

Useful Links

It seems some of the terms are quite different.http://www.insidenewcity.com/blog/view/translating-higher-ed-speak-from-us-to-uk/

UK
US
education

Alternatives to Google Analytics

Programming and Web Development

7 Alternatives to Google Analytics – Jan. 16, 2012 Search Engine Journal http://piwik.org/ – open source alternative to Google Analytics http://blog.ineedhits.com/tips-advice/10-best-alternatives-to-google-analytics-245110820.html http://smashinghub.com/10-pr...

Google
log analysis
website admin

grep tricks

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Linux and Unix

I’ve been using grep (Global Regular Expression Print) to search files on Unix for years and never knew you could have it appear in color. And here are some other interesting articles about grep. http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2009/03/highlight-match-with-col...

Unix
Linux
OS X

publisher’s policies on self-archiving

Useful Links

RoMEO “is a searchable database of publisher’s policies regarding the self- archiving of journal articles on the web and in Open Access repositories. You can use RoMEO to check whether you have the right to publish your papers on your own site.” – http://myres...

archives
copyright
papers

iPad Screencasting

Mobile Devices

Here is an article describing some iPad screencasting apps, and mentioning some others.http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ipad-screencasting-educreations-and-explain-everything/38662 http://www.educreations.com/ http://www.explaineverything.com/ http://itun...

apps
iPad

Has anyone tried Mukurtu?

Useful Links

Has anyone tried Mukurtu CMS. It’s a free and open source platform for managing and sharing digital heritage, built for indigenous communities, archives, libraries and museums." It’s based on Drupal 7, built by UC Berkeley, and a colleague at U. of Arizona to...

CMS
anthropology
archaeology
content management
indigenous