March 24, 2006

Glitter 06 @ Earlham

Interesting pointers from the Spring 06 Glitter Meeting at Earlham
Tom Kirk’s introduction. Exciting things happening on Earlham campus:

  • Increasing # applications. problems with selectivity.
  • Campus internationalisation award.
  • John Iverson teacher of year award
  • ACRL award for library 3 years ago

Interesting stuff from Glitter campuses:

[Phrases to remember: Podcasting without Tears, low friction]

Wabash

homegrown CMS with ColdFusion.
Analysis of web traffic — types of stories and hits. Better use of wabash site with dynamic content & updated news. Link to photos inside the news story got many more click throughs than when link was in side panel.
Learn about traffic patters to web site and adapt site to increase interest.

30 PCs and scanners nicked!. See below:

Ohio Weslyan

  • surveillance cameras!!

Oberlin

Big spenders. transition from Bboard —> Moodle
Next year’s Glitter ?

Posted by markp at March 24, 2006 05:58 PM