It turns out it is really easy to embed certain kinds of things in WordPress. Video sites like YouTube and Vimeo work great. Just cut and paste the URL into the Visual editor, make sure it isn’t a link, then publish! Unfortunately Google Docs embedding doesn’t work at this time, but documents can be uploaded and embedded using Scribd:

And here is an example of Vimeo embedding:

Thanks to Michael Gorman we have an updated WP system on campus! Just for fun, here are a couple of nice WP sites out there:

http://cammrowland.com/wp/

http://www.waitingroomrecords.com/

Note: Shots may lead to blindness.

Title: Travel meeting
Location: Memorial Center Davidson Room
Description: Discussion of proposed trip to South Africa.
Start Time: 02:00
Date: 2011-08-31
End Time: 03:00

Planning a big trip to South Africa! We still need to raise some funds for the Great White Shark Encounter that we are planning. More news later!

IWU has had some network issues around campus today. There appear to be two unrelated issues at this time. One is that internal e-mail traffic is intermittent. We have our own e-mail server that we manage ourselves. I don’t think any servers are actually down but I agree that things aren’t working correctly. We have people working on this right now.

A second issue is general slow performance of our Internet connection. I’ve heard this may be related to an AT&T router somewhere that is affecting our region.

I’ve requested that the IT people who have real details of these problems write up some sort of communication to campus so I hope we’ll hear more soon!

Update: Trey has posted some info on his blog.

Google recently unveiled a nice cookie-cutter site for sending tech advice to your relatives:

http://www.teachparentstech.org/

I sent a nice note today explaining how to change the date and time on their computer!