The fine folks at Visual Thesaurus, our online thesaurus product of choice and one of the most useful tools we offer, will conduct a web-enabled tutorial session on VT’s many features starting at 3:45 on Thursday, Oct. 4. VT has a host of resources available for teachers and students.
I’ve reserved Judd 204 for this event; [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Curt Lieneck
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Electrical work this weekend will mean that most school servers will be offline all day Saturday. That means you won’t have access to e-mail, file storage, blogs, Garbanzo, and most other services. The web site will be running on a contingency server, so it will be available - but don’t make any changes to [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2007 by Curt Lieneck
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Starting this morning (9/17/07), the UCLS incoming mail server has been straining to keep up with an exceptionally large barrage of SPAM email. You may experience delays in receiving email or even a “network timeout” as your email program communicates with the server. This is especially evident when using webmail. We are working on the [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2007 by jk
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A change that happened over the summer when Rowley Library switched from Follett Catalog Plus was that the URL address of Blaine Library automatically changed. Blaine last year had a URL that indicated siteid=2, now it is siteid=1, further the software last year used the default port 80 for listening on the web, but [...]
Posted on September 13th, 2007 by Curt Lieneck
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A friend recommended a free online resource similar to Visual Thesaurus. Visit visuwords and have fun playing with this “online graphical dictionary.” The display colors are bolder, and while it is not as fully featured as Visual Thesaurus, the relationships between words are cleverly color-coded as are parts of speech and other word attributes. I haven’t tried [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by Curt Lieneck
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