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Has anyone heard of or used Diigo? http://www.diigo.com/ It claims to be a “Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network.” And they have special Educator AccountsI ran across it in this Educause Quarterly artic...

Is anyone using this?http://www.google.com/educators/index.htmlPlease add comments or known use cases.. . .Presents itself as a mesh of Google offerings:Sites — http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=155427Apps — http://www.google.com/a/...

I’m writing this so I can find it next time I want to do this, and so my student programmers can more easily compare config settings across test sites.Problem: Find a particular line quickly in a file in 7 different directories. In this case, it’s a Moodle co...

Resources for developing mobile web applications.Introduction to the Mobile Web by MIThttps://spaces.internet2.edu/download/attachments/10520416/MIT_Mobile_Web_2_0_Overview.pdf?version=1This should be your first starting point. Excellent resources on mobile w...

1 – Alienvault – Open Source Security Information Management system – good review in the latest (March 2010) Linux journalFrom the web site: The OSSIM platform consists of a Management Server, and Sensor or “Probe”. A professional version that includes SEM fun...

From this articleEmail messages often contain a number of questions that the sender wants the recipient to answer. I find that many responses to such messages are much more difficult to understand than they should be. Not because of grammar or spelling errors,...

http://ucla.in is a service, similar to tinyurl.com, that allows users to shorten a long link, share it, and then track the resulting usage, while keeping the ucla name as part of the link. While other link-shortening services exist such as http://bit.ly, only...

Problem: You open an attachment from Outlook, (word, excel etc), you make changes to it, you just hit “save”. Where did it go? In theory, if you exit out, and say “yes” to the two “do you wish to save messages”, the file/attachment should now be updated in th...

The UCLA Library subscribes to hundreds of databases for fees of varying amounts, in order to license them for free use by UCLA students (fully enrolled), staff and faculty.Answers to three questions can be helpful in selecting databases to search: Which topic...

The UCLA Library subscribes to hundreds of databases for fees of varying amounts, in order to license them for free use by UCLA students (fully enrolled), staff and faculty. The Library also pays fees to subscribe to thousands of periodicals (journals, magazin...

UCLA librarians create research guides for classes and other purposes. I created a guide for TAs to help them learn to incorporate information literacy instruction into their curricula and assignments, and I used it as a supplement and replacement for attendin...

Getting the most out of Twitter – N.Y. Times By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER March 3, 2010 – “The truth is, you don’t have to post a message to get the most out of Twitter.” A CUSTOM NEWS FEED CHECK YOUR LISTS ATTEND A CONFERENCE, VIRTUALLY WHAT’S AROUND YOU RIGH...

As part of our preservation work at the Social Science Data Archive we sometimes have to pull data off of obsolete media, such as floppy and zip disks. To facilitate this we’ve been scavenging and collecting obsolete media equipment. I’m sure we aren’t the onl...

I am using Google Alerts to find information on topics I’m interested in. It keeps you informed about what’s going on around you without having to spend a lot of time looking for information.-Joel BellonGoogle alerts are great for monitoring Internet trends, ...

On computers that have been upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7, iTunes always launches with an error iTunes.exe has been set to run in compatibility mode for an older version of Windows. For best results, turn off compatibility mode for iTunes before you...

There are probably many other collections of innovating teaching ideas and examples. Please add them to this page as you come across them. MERLOT ELIXR is a collection of digital case stories about innovation in teaching. http://elixr.merlot.org/case-stories...

Many staff members have taken courses through SkillSets IT Online:http://www.skillsetsitonline.com/index.shtmlCourse vouchers can be purchased and are typically issued to allow access to a single Skill Set for a 2 week period. Vouchers can be purchased in bul...

This post is meant to offer some quick and easy ways to use Powershell and WMI for System Administrators. Many tools are available to find out attributes of machines on your network, but sometimes you need something quick, simple and direct. Below are some one...