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:
All trip participants will have to go through a rigorous medical screening before being allowed to travel. Procedures include blood pressure check, vision & hearing exam, STD panel, multiple skin grafts, and antibiotic shots injected directly into both retinas.
Note: Shots may lead to blindness.
All of those who sign up for the trip must wear their safari hats during the entire trip. This allows us to not only keep track of IWU trip members, but also humiliate you! Thanks. -The Staff
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!
Check out these excellent rubber stamps. I’m convinced.
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!
We are proud to present the new presentation equipment for the Henning Room!
A new 54″ TV, VCR/DVD player, wireless presenter tools and a Mac Mini have been installed.
We expect similar carts to be installed in Shaw Hall and plan to evaluate them for use in the New North classroom building.
We still have a lot to learn about newer HDTV technology (I don’t even have HD at home) but so far with a few adjustments it is working well.
I recommend learning some Zoom In/Zoom Out keyboard shortcuts. Video and presentations look great in their native sizes but web text can look pretty little on a screen with this much real estate!