If you’re maintaining a website or blog at blogs.evergreen.edu you will now be able to more tightly control who has access to view your site. Login to your blog and go to Settings > Privacy to see the new additional options.
Stay safe on Facebook!
With a forum as open and universal as the internet, it’s always important to make sure that your information is as secure as you want it to be. The ever-popular Facebook recently changed its default privacy settings to make more information open and accessible.
Take a look at this New York Times article on the subject, or check around your privacy settings yourself. A few minutes now could save a lot of headaches later.
Online Workshops and Software Tutorials
Lets say you have a video that needs to be edited for class. It’s due…a week from now. Thing is; you have no idea how to edit video! In fact, when people say ‘Final Cut,’ you think it’s a horror film. This doesn’t have to be you! Even the most novice of computer users can become well acquainted with any program of their choice using the self-paced tutorials on Lynda.com.
Lynda.com was created by the Evergreen alumni Lynda Weinman. She’s taught at schools such as Art Center College Of Design, so it’s obvious that she knows her stuff. Lynda has helpful tutorials on programs such as Dreamweaver, AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro, Microsoft Office, and even web based programs like Twitter! The tutorials come in either video or by step by step instructions, so anybody can follow along at the leisure of their own pace.
Students can check out accounts for the software tutorial website, Lynda.com at the Computer Center Help Desk. Just make sure to bring your school ID and we’ll check one out to you. The cyber world is your oyster, learn how to grab for that pearl!
Student email Performance Improvement
Student email services should be quicker and more reliable based on some changes that Network Services made in the past week. The latency problems that many students reported seemed to stem from the way our anti-virus software was configured on the email server. If you have any email related problems or notice any issues, please contact Academic Computing at Contact.
Eating in the Computer Center is Now OK
Eating is now permitted in the Computer Center as long as you’re away from the computers. This should allow you the flexibility of eating here but help us keep the keyboards and mice clean. OK places to eat are the lounge area in the Mac Lounge, the sofa in the AC, and the three lounge areas in the Commons. We will be developing small lounge areas in the Grotto and Solarium soon. You can drink from a covered container anywhere in the Computer Center.
Please help — report spillages immediately!
Have you lost your thumb drive??
Did you know that people leave thumb drives behind in the Computer Center all the time? (I know, hard to believe..) We have an extensive lost and found with all sorts of stuff left behind, and a special system for thumb drives. We’d love to get yours back to you if you think you might have left one behind in one of the computers.
When we find a drive left in the center, we log it in our lost and found system and then try and contact the owner if we can dig up that information. Please stop by the computer center consultant desk (and bring ID) if you think this might be you and we will happily reunite you with your data!
Macworld 2009
In case you missed the Keynote Address from this year’s Macworld 2009, you can see it here: Macworld 2009 Keynote.
Apple announced DRM-free music as the new standard on their ever popular iTunes music store. Good news for all you iPodders out there. They also announced new versions of iLife (iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, Garageband) and iWork (Keynote, Numbers, Pages).
280 Slides
280 Slides is a free online presentation application. Think of it as “free online PowerPoint” – though it actually has a Keynote style to it. The major drawback is that it’s missing an outline mode, which is arguably the fastest way to make a presetation. (Also check out Picnik – an online image editor)
Computer Center and Linux
It’s taking over like the small, warm, cuddly (but cost effective and powerful) creature that represents it. Linux is not just for nerds and screen-monkeys. It’s a stable and easy to use operating system for the masses and best of all it’s free. It is also now installed on all of the PC’s in the computer center in one form or another. Although these machines have linux installed, the configuration of these systems (specifically user logins) is evolving so that they will not yet boot into Linux. We are working on this integration so that in the future any user can boot into Windows or Linux. In the meantime, the kiosks at the front of the center are running Ubuntu as are the stations in the ACC.
If you are using a computer in the center that is running Windows, chances are good that it’s also running Linux. Wanna give it a try? Ask a computer consultant at the front desk and they can help you get started!
Questions about accessing your Moodle course from home?
If you are wondering if your home browser is the right one to be using with Evergreen’s on-line Learning environment (AKA elms AKA moodle), then check out our help page on system requirements for moodle. It will help you to make sure that you have all you need to be able to access, upload and download stuff from your course page.