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The Importance of Proper Troubleshooting

October 21, 2010 – 3:42 pm

Many years ago I was not a geeky ITD GA who went around trying to fix technology problems here at GSLIS… I was simply a geeky High School student who loved to play with computers. I remember begging my mom and dad to get us a new family computer. The new Powermac G4 towers were read more »

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Team Awesome Feature Edition – Leighton Christianson

October 15, 2010 – 9:45 am

As I mentioned in my last post, we will be doing some sort of Team Awesome post every other Friday. Today’s post is the Team Awesome Feature Edition, where we feature a member of our amazing ITD/Help Desk team! So… who is today’s Team Awesome feature? This guy: Leighton sent me a mini-biography in the read more »

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LEEP On-Campus

October 14, 2010 – 4:27 pm

I knew something was different in GSLIS when I walked in the east door of the building this morning. Instead of being greeted by the quiet hum of classes in rooms 126 and 131, I found myself face-to-face with a bake sale. And not just any bake sale, but a bake sale featuring huge slices read more »

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Team Awesome!

October 1, 2010 – 9:33 am

Ever wonder who is moderating your LEEP class? Or who sets up your conference calls? Or maybe you’re just wondering who all these awesome (and extremely good looking) people are on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the GSLIS building. Well you’re in luck – it’s the Team Awesome blog edition! So who is Team read more »

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Zotero Debugging

September 16, 2010 – 1:49 pm

Zotero is an amazing research tool well known to librarians. It, however, is not perfect. The University of Illinois Main Library knows from testing that the Zotero Firefox plug-ins automatic proxying feature sometimes erroneously decides to attempt to proxy the library home page (or any www.library.illinois.edu page) in basically an endless loop when trying to use it from read more »

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Upcoming Workshops

June 24, 2010 – 10:02 am

Near the end of LEEP On Campus, Adam and Dan kicked off our Web 2.0 workshop series with their intro to Blogs and RSS Feeds workshop. They might be offering it again later this summer, if folks are interested! Next week Laks and I will be doing a workshop on Social Tagging, Bookmarking and Cataloging. read more »

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Programming languages, pt. 1: Why Markup Languages aren’t Programming Languages and Let’s Learn PHP

May 26, 2010 – 1:31 pm

What are your plans now that summer has started? Why not pick up a programming language? Even if you don’t plan on using it in the future, some of the introductory tutorials can be fun to work through and might give you a new perspective on what it means to program. Programming Languages vs. Markup read more »

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Preparing Presentation Materials for Elluminate

May 24, 2010 – 2:58 pm

I’m working on a “Preparing your presentation materials for Elluminate” guide that’s designed to be a PDF/handout that can be uploaded to course moodles and or linked to on the public web. Instructors and students will then have a way of knowing some of the lesser known secrets of what types of files and various read more »

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File Extensions

May 3, 2010 – 10:32 am

If you have saved a file before with a word processor or office program then chances are you know a little bit about file extensions. File names created in Open Office Writer have a .odf at the end of them. Files created with Microsoft Word have a .doc (or docx) at the end. The way read more »