planning 2009-08-30T11:40:03Z http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/feed/atom/ WordPress cellatreis <![CDATA[A New Project Tag]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=97 2009-08-22T17:01:47Z 2009-08-22T16:57:44Z After giving the matter some thought, I think we should switch our project tag from “whitman20” to “ww20” on the proposition that shorter is better for services such as twitter.  So, please update your previously tagged items on social bookmarking services such as twitter and social photo services such as flickr, and please use “ww20” from this point forward.

Whitman’s oeuvre may argue against the thought that shorter is better, but I think that we do have to make some allowances for modern technology!

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cellatreis <![CDATA[Website Redesign Coming Soon!]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=92 2009-08-22T16:59:43Z 2009-08-16T08:04:19Z Please stay tuned for an overhaul of this website, which we will unveil before the start of the Fall 2009 semester.  The new design will bring a new look to the site and will tie together many different aspects of its navigation.

The development team behind the project has already finished the heavy coding work required to create the sitewide gray navigation bar at the top of this page.  Wherever you are on the site, you should be able to see this bar.  Using it will allow you to travel to most other sections of the site.

I’m very pleased to welcome Claire Fontaine to the project, as well.  Claire will be acting as the Director of Project Support; she will be coordinating the technical support team at every campus and will be working to ensure that we provide helpful and timely assistance to students just getting started on WordPress, our site platform.

Thanks for your patience and stay tuned for the redesign!

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Matthew Gold http://lookingforwhitman.org/members/mkgold/ <![CDATA[Adding Flickr Images to Posts]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=75 2009-08-30T11:40:03Z 2009-06-22T18:39:16Z Tyler had a question about adding a flickr image to a post — when he tried to post a link to a photo on flickr, the image uploader responded with a big red X.  Here’s what was happening and how to fix it:

“Share This” links on Flickr:

flickr-photo-link1

flickr-photo-link2

When you get that “Share This” link from flickr, what you get is a link to a page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39579711@N02/3641816508/), not to a photo.  Remember that photos usually have a .jpg extension at the end of the file name.

There are three ways around this that I know of.  Maybe Jim has others.

METHOD 1: GRAB THE LINK OF THE IMAGE
On the flickr photo page, right click on the image.  If you’re using Firefox, click “View Image” in the submenu that comes up.  Copy that URL.  Notice that the URL leads to a file that ends in jpg
— If you use Internet Explorer, right click on the image, click “properties,” copy the URL you see there

METHOD 2:  SAVE PHOTO TO YOUR COMPUTER, THEN UPLOAD TO BLOG
Step 1: Download image:  On the flickr photo page, click “All sizes” about the photo.  Click on the link to the size you want.  Click “Download the (S/MED/LG) Size.  Save file to a folder on your computer.
Step 2: Upload image to blog.  On blog post, click “Add image” above post editing box.  On Add media files from your computer, browse to folder with saved image.  Upload image.

METHOD 3:  COPY EMBED CODE FROM FLICKR, PASTE INTO POST EDITING BOX
Step 1:  Click “Share This” on flickr photo page
Step 2:  Click “Grab the HTML” on pop-up menu.  Click inside box, when code highlighted/selected, click Control-C to copy
Step 3:  Go to post editing page.  Above the post editing box, click “HTML” so that it, not “Visual, is selected
Step 4:  Paste (Control-V) code into post box.
Step 5: Publish post

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Matthew Gold http://lookingforwhitman.org/members/mkgold/ <![CDATA[Photos from the Camden Planning Meetings, Day 2]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=73 2009-06-19T17:19:10Z 2009-06-19T17:19:10Z Hi Everyone,

Photos from the second day of our Camden Planning meetings are now up on flickr. Here is the complete set of our Camden Planning Session photos, and here is a link to our entire photostream.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Walt Whitman House, Camden

Walt Whitman House, Camden

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Matthew Gold http://lookingforwhitman.org/members/mkgold/ <![CDATA[Summer Priorities]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=67 2009-06-18T16:44:55Z 2009-06-18T16:44:55Z Areas of Concern

getting courses talking to each other – creating interaction between class

  • requiring commenting across blogs
  • shared projects
  • Need clearer sense of how things are being sent to various blogs, tagging systems, where we’ll cluster documentation for field trips — physical structure of interaction
  • Field trip cluster — do we want to have students document and share — do we want to give class time to watching what students filmed and said about Whitman House, for example — watch, discuss. Or require as homework — watch what Camden students put up (fieldtrips.lookingforwhitman.org)
  • cluster on site for field trips — post schedules as they emerge — documentation of field trips
  • — Need training Manual so that on first class students can be walked through blogging
    — Knowing structure/procedure for interschool connections — protocol for that
    — Groups/BuddyPress stuff/Twitter

    add events calendar
    schedule a weekly conference call
    — during conference call — discuss highlights of week, make a quick list, send out to everyone involved in project
    blog post after class — take five minutes at the end of class and brainstorm — most important thing we did today

    — worried that things are too distributed — how many things do I have to keep up with and how diluted to conversations become if they’re happening in six different spaces instead of one space or two spaces

    create introductory video/screencast that can be shown in all classes on the first day

    – need

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    Matthew Gold http://lookingforwhitman.org/members/mkgold/ <![CDATA[Faculty Assignments for June]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=61 2009-06-22T18:41:15Z 2009-06-18T13:40:02Z PROJECT TAG: whitman20

    1. One blog post per week that includes at least one photo and one video.

    2. Add feeds to your blog

    3. Create accounts on del.icio.us, flickr, and YouTube

    4. Identify areas for additional tech training

    5. Begin to finalize syllabi

    6. Confirm research trips/tours

    7. Add tags as we wish but Jim and Matt will figure out feeds to main site.

    8. Post questions on Tech support group forum for #4.

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    Matthew Gold http://lookingforwhitman.org/members/mkgold/ <![CDATA[Photos from the Camden Planning Meetings, Day 1]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=55 2009-06-18T13:27:58Z 2009-06-18T12:26:44Z

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    Matthew Gold http://lookingforwhitman.org/members/mkgold/ <![CDATA[June Planning Meeting Agenda]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=16 2009-06-16T19:32:51Z 2009-06-16T04:15:15Z waltwhitman-camden1891

    Looking for Whitman
    June 2009 Planning Meetings
    Rutgers University at Camden
    June 17-18, 2009

    Directions to Campus

    Hotel Information: Crowne Plaza Hotel

    Itinerary:

    Wednesday, June 17
    Location: Rutgers Camden
    Business and Science Building 107 (changed)
    Map

    11am — Meet in Computer Lab (room number?)
    11am-1pm — Technology Workshop
    1pm-2pm — Lunch
    2pm-5pm — Technology Workshop and Curriculum Planning
    6-8pm — Dinner

    Thursday, June 18
    9am-9:30am — Welcome/Breakfast
    9:30-10:30am — Technology Training
    10:30-12:30pm — Curriculum Planning
    12:30-1:30 — Lunch
    1:30-2:30 Whitman Gravesite Tour
    2:30-4 Tour of Walt Whitman House
    4-5 Regroup and Final Planning Meeting/Closing Ceremonies

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    Matthew Gold http://lookingforwhitman.org/members/mkgold/ <![CDATA[Assignments]]> http://planning.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=11 2009-06-16T20:04:22Z 2009-03-08T14:05:44Z By end of the second week: personal intro
    First Assignment — Introduction of self through sections of Leaves of Grass/”Song of Myself” — find six
    — find an image or video that illustrates that passage — flickr, YouTube
    goals — practice technology — get to know other o
    — grab six lines — comment on why that passage is meaningful to you
    — why does that resonate with you
    — comment on at least one blog from each class

    Second Assignment: Cultural Contexts/Cultural Artifacts
    scalpel, surgical instruments, train, ferries, bucket full of feet, slippers, hospitals, hats, plumbing, lincoln lecture, laurel creek, shoemaking, printing press, penny paper/newspaper, Horace Traubel, Ford’s theater, slouch hat, opera, art/realism, Eakins, daguerreotypes, Fred Gray society, phrenology, painting (someone’s NY), Pfaff’s beerhall, omnibus, diet food, lincoln’s funeral, cemeteries, rural park/cemetery unit, carpentry tools,
    Each student responsible for providing cultural context
    possibilities — everything from material object (ex. slouch hat. ex. Camden — annual lincoln lecture ww gave — find invitation to that lecture — that could be starting point for finding out ww’s role — late in life — why giving lecture
    — ex. surgical instruments — find

    find artifact — find Whitman’s writings

    Third Assignment
    Different Editions of Leaves of Grass as structuring assignment — CommentPress
    –students limited to doing a hypertext of a poem that was new to that edition
    — so that they begin to understand what is new to that edition
    — NYC – 1855/1856/1860 // Journalism/ Franklin Evans //
    — UMW/Fredericksburg – 1865 (Drum Taps)/1867/1871-2 // Memoranda During the War
    — Camden – 1876/1881-2/1892 Deathbed // Two Rivulets
    — Using the WW Archive

    Field Trips
    — documenting experience
    — take photos — upload content
    — see other students
    What do we do with field trips

    final project that shows immersion

    cinepoem / video / online museum / research essay
    annotated map / mp3 – rap / google maps (MyMaps)

    Final project — video project — every student in every class reads a WW text/poem in a specific place
    — locate videos on the map

    each used a map of town as home page for site
    — ex. use a civil war era map of f-burg — links on it that would correspond to

    bibliographic essay —

    choose one sound

    Biography — int

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