K-State’s first university-wide sustainability website launched Sept. 1 at sustainability.k-state.edu. The purpose of the website is to build awareness throughout the K-State community, whether on or off campus, about the wide variety of efforts and successes furthering sustainability at K-State. It can be a resource for connecting with efforts, for building new collaborations, and for promoting our successes and leadership in this area.
Most people will be interested in the Get Involved pages, which will grow over time to include many ways different people can get involved in furthering sustainability at K-State. You can also view the events calendar, with buttons for linking to personal calendars for automatic updating.
Meetings for the Kaw River Macintosh User Group (KRMUG) are listed below for the fall semester. (Visit the KRMUG website for possible date changes throughout the year.) The group’s purpose is to instruct and inform users of Macintosh computers on software and hardware issues, as well as provide a community for the sharing of ideas and experiences.
Meetings are typically 10 a.m.-noon on the second Saturday of each month, in Bluemont Hall Room 16.
Sharing copyrighted music, movies, and games is against the law and K-State policy.
The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 makes it the responsibility of the university to educate K-Staters about the dangers of illegally sharing files through Peer-2-Peer (P2P) networks.
To help protect K-Staters from lawsuits and to abide by this mandate, K-State’s IT security team created a new website and an informational handout (PDF) to inform students, faculty, and staff.
Social bookmarking is the process of users storing and organizing webpages and web content in an open and public fashion. The end result of this is something called a folksonomy. Where a taxonomy is a strict categorization of the formal structure of a given thing, a folksonomy is a categorization and organization of the structure of a given entity by the common people (“folks”) who choose to help organize the information.
This organizational schema is created by individual users “tagging” bookmarks with keywords that the user think can be attributed to the content (and is usually expressed using a “tag cloud” — see image above). Different from the concepts of folders, tagging allows any individual piece of information to be attributed with a countless number of keywords or “tags”.
More than a subtle shift, the development of social bookmarking — which helped reconceptualize organizing information through the use of tags instead of folders and resulted in the creation of a human-powered folksonomy — is one of the foundational elements to the current dynamic and ultra-networked Web (2.0).
Thomas Kuhn will present “Google Docs” at 1:15 p.m. Thursday, November 13, in 301A Hale Library . Come join this session to discover how Google Docs can be used as a collaboration tool for personal and professional projects. The basics of Docs, Sheets, Presentations and Google Talk will be discussed. Google Docs is a free service that allows you to:
Create basic documents
Upload existing documents
Share and collaborate online instantly
Control who has access to your documents – documents can be available to a select few or published to the world
Google Docs is a great tool if you need to work with others on documents. Rather than editing documents and then e-mailing to another person or group to edit, everyone can just edit the documents live and online. See the Google Docs tour page for examples of how others are using the tool.
Ernie Perez, Instructional Technology Manager in iTAC, recently answered some questions about the new collaborative workstations in Hale Library. His office builds and maintains all centrally funded technology classrooms and university computer labs.
Q: What’s the purpose of the Hale Library collaborative workstations?
Perez: These units are designed for group work so students won’t have to crowd around one of the computer pods in Hale Library. They are mobile, so they can go where the group goes.
Q: How many units are there in the library? What components comprise a computerized collaborative workstation?
Social bookmarking is the process of users storing and organizing webpages and web content in an open and public fashion. The end result of this is something called a folksonomy. Where a taxonomy is a strict categorization of the formal structure of a given thing, a folksonomy is a categorization and organization of the structure of a given entity by the common people (“folks”) who choose to help organize the information.