(Image by Tony Fischer Photography via Creative Commons)
After such a terrifically beautiful weekend, it’s pouring outside my window right now. But this guy seems to be making the most of it, so let’s all try to be more like him.
Importing and Exporting Sites
If you’re a faculty member, you might be wondering what to do with your courses when we want to move them to the next term. There’s admittedly a lot to think about when it comes to this issue, and depends on how you set up your course, whether you’re teaching the same course, how many sections of a course you teach.
In the Spotlight Archive: Tim Hetherington Discussion
This Week in Openlab! May 14th Edition
(photo by Wonderlane on Flickr via Creative Commons)
Today we overheard a student say ‘I was studying so hard for my first exam I didn’t see the sun for three days.’ We’re impressed, sympathetic, and hope you all get outside soon…
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(image by Dimitri N.
Awesome Flickr Gallery
As so often with these tutorials, you can skip the first few minutes, because the plug-in is already installed on the OpenLab. As always, contact us with any questions, or to set up a demonstration.
This Week in OpenLab! May 7th Edition
(image by KRO-Media via Creative Commons)
By the time we next write, Mother’s Day will have passed, and thinking about it reminded us this morning of J.M. Coezee’s banquet speech, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He pictured running home with his Nobel Prize tucked under his arm to tell his mother, “Mommy, Mommy, I won a prize!
LaTeX update: What if I can’t write LaTex?
A few weeks back we created a tutorial to use the WordPress LaTeX plug-in, which allows users to use a set of commands to turn this:
\sqrt{x^2+1}
Into this:
$latex \sqrt{x^2+1}$
Our tutorial was designed for faculty and students who already know LaTeX.
This Week In Openlab! May 1st Edition
(Photo courtesy of Fort Lewis College Center of SouthWest Studies via creative commons)
It’s May!
Somehow, inexplicably, it’s May: that time of the school year about which we have such complicated feelings–the term is almost over, but in front of summer break stands tests, papers, exams, grading, final projects, and work work work!
This Week In Openlab! April 26th Edition
Openlab Launch: An Unqualified Success!
Last week was the OpenLab launch. It was a beautiful event, really. Many members of our community were there, and many new faces came too. And there were balloons!
First came our wonderful opening speakers—all members of our CityTech community–including our own Maura Smale:
(twitter images via @lwaltzer)
After that, keynote speaker Jim Groom gave an engaging, accessible, and above all enthusiastic talk that combined, in no particular order, references to the 2pac Shakur ‘hologram’ at Cochella a few weeks ago, My Little Pony, Emo versus Punk, the future of 3-D printing and their effect on lost legos, vulgarity and systems of measurement, college writing and, above all, open, community-based digital platforms like our own OpenLab.
Image Resizing
The simplest way to resize an image is to use an online service like PicMonkey.com. We don’t endorse any particular online service here at the OpenLab, and there are many online resizing free services. But this one is solid in that it has the things most people need when resizing (a bit of color changing, a size change option, a crop feature, and a way to reduce file size).