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We are currently experiencing difficulties with our NetLibrary e-book collection. We are seeing a copyright message appear every 4-5 pages and we are getting reports that users are getting bumped out of NetLibrary with the message: “This eContent is not included in your library’s collection and is unavailable for viewing.”
To fix the copyright message [...]
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Our apologies! Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of September and October. Yes, we inadvertently skipped a month in the flurry of activity in the Library. So this list will combine items receive during both.
As always, new circulating books and children’s books are found in the [...]
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Looking for an Halloween-themed book? The USF Poly Library has set up a display of all our books about Halloween, ghosts, witches, creepy-crawlies and such for you to choose from. Pick up a book and a piece of candy on your way out.
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The University of South Florida Polytechnic is currently advertising the following position:
Social Sciences and Education Librarian (Open Rank)
Faculty rank, non-tenure earning
Full time, 12-month contract
Duties:
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with some of the programs in the College of Human and Social Sciences (Counselor Education, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Early Childhood Development, Educational Leadership, Elementary Education, Gerontology/Aging [...]
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The University of South Florida Polytechnic is currently advertising the following position.
Business Librarian (Open Rank)
Faculty rank, non-tenure earning
Full time, 12-month contract
Duties:
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with the Division of Business; designing and presenting instructional sessions and tools; developing the library’s collection of discipline-related materials; providing research assistance to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and [...]
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The SLA Florida and Caribbean Chapter Fall Workshop and Awards Luncheon will take place at USF Polytechnic on Friday, November 13 2009, from 9 AM to 4 PM.
The workshop theme is “Libraries of the Future”. The program speakers are Paulette Hasier (DARPA Library, Library Task Manager), Jonathan Reichental (US IT Innovations Director, Pricewaterhouse Coopers) and [...]
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The American Psychological Association released last week dozens of corrections to the brand new 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The first printing of the Manual was published in July. A very popular citation style, the Manual is used in psychology, as well as in education, sociology, economics, business, nursing [...]
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Listed below are the books honored by the FPA President’s Book Awards. There are 16 different categories and one special category, President’s Pick, chosen by FPA’s President, Chris Angermann, of New Chapter Publisher, Sarasota, FL.
PICTURE BOOK
Gold Medal Winner — Adventures of Countess Pigula: “Up, Up and Away!” written and illustrated by Karen Freysinger, published [...]
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We invite you to our open door, hands-on seminars, in Elluminate:
Database Searching
Monday, October 12, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
Meeting Link: http://131.247.100.61:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1253029103795
Add to Calendar: http://131.247.100.61:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1253029103795
Starts: 10/12/2009 12:00 EDT
Ends: 10/12/2009 13:00 EDT
RefWorks
Tuesday, October 13, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes [...]
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Wanting a quick way to know what is going on in scientific fields, or simply having a few minutes to kill and looking for a quick, informative read? The USF Poly Library is now receiving two popular scientific magazines: Psychology Todayand Scientific American.
They can be found with the other print journals and periodicals at [...]
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Searching for Lexis Nexis in MetaLib (our helpful list of electronic databases), you will now find a Beta version of a new interface for this great resource for newspapers, industry and market news, legal news and research, company financial information,accounting, auditing and tax information, law reviews and case law. The full new interface will be [...]
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President Obama has proclaimed this month “Information Literacy Awareness Month”.
Information literacy can be defined, as in the proclamation, “the ability to seek, find, and decipher information [that] can be applied to countless life decisions, whether financial, medical, educational, or technical.”
Libraries and librarians are actively involved in information literacy and the USF Poly Library [...]
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We invite you to our open door, hands-on seminars, in LTB 2153:
Database Searching
Wednesday, September 30, 12:00-1:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 5:00-6:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
RefWorks
Wednesday, September 30, 5:00-6:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.
These [...]
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Join us on the LTB patio to listen to passages from banned and challenged books, as part of the USFP Library celebration of Banned Books Week.
Readings will be from 11:15AM to 1PM and 4:15PM to 6PM (yes, we sneaked in a couple more readers). Among the banned/challenged authors this year: Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, Judy [...]
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This week is the 28th edition of National Banned Books Week. The USF Polytechnic Library is celebrating in many ways:
a display of challenged or banned books from our collections
quotes on freedom of expression, censorship and the freedom to read
our Read Out event, Tuesday September 29th, from 11:15AM to 1PM and 4:15PM to 6PM. Members of [...]
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If your Elluminate session was created via Blackboard, you can access the recording using the same path via Blackboard that you used to join the session.
First, log in to Blackboard at USF (http://my.usf.edu) using your USF netID and password.
Click the Courses tab.
Click your course’s link.
Click the Communication link in the main navigation bar in your [...]
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On September 23 we sent out a round of email stating that courses created in 2004 and earlier would be removed from the system in 30 days. The message read as follows:
Professor @@lname,
We apologize for the blast of emails today. We are cleaning out 4 semesters of old courses,
and our tool only [...]
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The Blackboard system experienced an operating system kernel error on one server which cascaded and was not handled properly by the cluster, resulting in Blackboard being unavailable for about 45 minutes, Tuesday, September 22, from approximately 9:30-10:15pm. No data was lost as a result of this outage.
We apologize for any inconvenience this [...]
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This morning, in The Ledger newspaper, an article was published on the Library’s Read Out event on September 29th. During the event, we will be reading passages from banned or challenged books out loud.
We invite everyone on campus to participate in listening or reading (still good spots available). Please contact the librarian, Catherine Lavallée-Welch, if [...]
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AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. The collection is made accessible online by the Duke University Special Collections Library.
These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in [...]
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Recently we have seen several Elluminate users at USF complain about an error they receive in Internet Explorer 8 (and sometimes in version 7) when they try to access an Elluminate session or recording. This is actually an Internet Explorer security issue and can be easily resolved.
The Problem:
When you click on an Elluminate session/recording link [...]
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We invite you to our open door, hands-on seminars, in LTB 2153:
Database Searching
Wednesday, September 30, 12:00-1:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 5:00-6:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.
RefWorks
Wednesday, September 30, 5:00-6:00PM
or
Thursday, October 1, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.
These [...]
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September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. National Hispanic Heritage Month is a celebration of the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, the USF Polytechnic Library is highlighting the books, journals, and electronic [...]
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There is a job opening at the USF Polytechnic Library for a FWS student to man the circulation desk during the weekdays. We’re looking for someone with a good service attitude!
For more details, search
the Career Connection system for position #25796
visit the USF Poly Career Center in LTB 1155
or search its Online Job Board
or [...]
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The USF Polytechnic Library invites you to celebrate the freedom to read by participating in a READ OUT! event during Banned Books Week (September 26 to October 3).
What: Read from a challenged or banned book for a 15 minutes period. There is no microphone, no sitting audience – you [...]
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of August. As always, new circulating books and children’s books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area and can be checked out; the new reference and DVD titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
To [...]
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Last year we released the ability for departments and advisers to communicate with your constituents. We’ve greatly expanded the options for how those sites can be automatically populated with students. In particular, we can now identify students based on:
- Their College, department, major, concentration, or degree code
- Their education level (Freshmen, Sophomore, Undergrad, [...]
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On Monday, September 7th, the Library (and the Open Use Lab) will be closed in observance of Labor Day. We will reopen Tuesday, September 8th, at 8:00 AM.
Have a great Labor Day week-end!
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Over the next month, the USF Libraries has been given trial access to the following databases: FAITS, and SMP.
The first of two database trials being offered by Faulkner Information Services is FAITS (Faulkner Advisory For Information Technology Studies). FAITS reports are designed to help students, instructors, and administrators learn about and keep up [...]
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Over the next month, the USF Libraries has been given trial access to the following database: Mergent InvestorEdge.
Mergent InvestorEdge provides access to the financial documents and information you need for each individual company for comprehensive investment research. Key features include:
Over 4,000 equity research reports, updated weekly, providing expert analysis and buy, sell, hold [...]
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Due to a server crash Saturday afternoon, the USF Libraries is now using a backup catalog. You can still search the catalog, but cannot put holds or renew items. Item status is also unavailable.
We will let you know when the main catalog is back on. We apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE: all functions are now back [...]
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There is a job opening at the USF Polytechnic Library for a FWS student to man the circulation desk during the weekdays. We’re looking for someone with a good service attitude!
For more details, search
the Career Connection system for position #25796
visit the USF Poly Career Center in LTB 1155
or search its Online Job Board
or [...]
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The United States is slowly falling in line with the majority of the Internet connected world and moving to web browsing on their cell phone. Naturally, our students are at least representative of this trend if not slightly skewed even more in the direction of mobile internet use. Blackboard currently supports a limited [...]
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ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 7.5 hours from 2:30 PM to 10:00 PM, Saturday, August 29th.
ScienceDirect is the full text database for the Elsevier journals the USF Libraries subscribe to, in multiple disciplines.
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If you are a friend of Google Calendars, and an owner of a Blackboard course or Organization, this will be useful.
Within Google Calendar is a great feature for embedding calendars on other web pages. As you update your Google Calendar, the web page with the embedded calendar is automatically updated. And what is [...]
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It’s been 4 years since this was first posted, enjoy
If your looking for the games recently*cough* added to myUSF / Blackboard, here’s how to find them.
Click on your Welcome tab
Click the Modify Contents button in the upper right side of the frame.
Scroll down a bit until you find the modules you are looking for. [...]
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It’s official! People are now sending more text messages than they are making cell phone calls. Librarians are aware of the popularity of texting and are ready to take their professional services to cell phones.
Starting now, patrons of approximately 50 librariesfrom all over the US - including USF - will be able to [...]
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There is a problem with Internet Explorer 8 and External Links in Blackboard. If you create a link in Blackboard to a non-SSL site (one that begins with http:// rather than https://), IE8 will try to protect you from potentially harmful 3rd party websites by asking, “Do you only want to display content [...]
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The Blackboard sync service that provides for the Facebook and iPhone app integration with USF Blackboard is having problems now. Students htat have already signed up for the service are not receiving updates, and students signing up for the first time are receiving weird errors and references to the Scholar service.
We’ll update this post [...]
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Hand sanitizer and cleaning wipes are available at the LTB 1115 front desk for your usage, in order to help preventing the spread of the H1N1 virus this Fall semester. You are welcome to use them to clean the computer mouse, keyboards and office tools like the stapler and paper punch before you use them. [...]
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Just a quick tip for instructors. Students really, REALLY appreciate it when you send them email when adding announcements to your course.
It’s dead simple too. When adding an announcement, simply check the box in Step 4. Then submit the announcement as usual.
Your students will (quietly) thank you for your consideration.
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There is a known issue with WebDav in Windows XP. If you try to mount the WebDav folder as a network drive, Windows will continue to ask for your password even after you submit it correctly. After three such attempts, Windows will return a message similar to “The folder cannot be mounted [...]
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The import/export process is superior to the course copy because the export/import process is much more stringent in fixing old course errors. Course copy will continue to replicate errors that were created due to Blackboard bugs from many years ago, while running your course through the export/import will fix those same errors, resulting in [...]
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Every time you visit Blackboard, there a friendly greeting awaiting you, something that the administration of USF thinks is important, timely, or interesting to students and faculty.
Part of the Welcome tab that everyone sees after logging it to Blackboard
In the past this message was static. I would put up the message, and it would [...]
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I am sorry that it has taken me so long to update everyone. Wanted to let everyone know that I am doing very well . The last month or so has been a very positive experience for me. I am understanding what Shauna had been trying to teach me over the twenty one wonderful [...]
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Testing of this new program
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Looks like this next semester… my last semester till grad will be pretty hot cha cha.
Compilers. VLSI. Graphics. And then some. hopefully everything will be simple and easy. hahaha… right.
Well, I have a ton of experience in Graphics… and I yell at compilers almost daily now.
Also, I might be modding again some time soon for [...]
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"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go."
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Visit: http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.0/moderator.jsp for online moderator tutorials on Elluminate 9 and http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.0/participant.jsp for online participant tutorials on Elluminate 9.
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Elluminate recently released a new version of Elluminate (version 9.1). Currently we are using Elluminate 8.5. Elluminate 9.1 has several new features and we are now going to upgrade our servers to Elluminate 9.1 on May 18, 2009. This upgrade will not affect your existing sessions, session links, Elluminate moderators login url, Blackboard integration, user [...]
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There have been reports of Safari 4 Beta causing problems with Elluminate Live!. It has been determined that merely having it installed will cause Elluminate Live! to not operate as expected. Elluminate recommends using our software with supported applications that have passed our testing procedures. As Safari 4 was just released, we recommend the following [...]
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To further scholarship in many disciplines, the USF Libraries recently purchased the online version of the American Periodicals Series.
American Periodicals Series Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Containing more than seven million digitized page images, titles range from America’s [...]
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June is GLBT Pride month. We have published our USFP Library 2009 list of resources listing books, children’s books, electronic journals and databases.
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On June 3, between 5-7pm MyUSF experienced a hardware failure which effected the performance and availability for some users until around 11pm. The hardware problem has also caused course content from Spring 2009 and Content Collection items to become unavailable. Current Summer 2009 content should not have been affected.
The nature of [...]
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of May. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
Of note, we have continued receiving the 2008 award-winning Children’s Books [...]
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From an email from RefWorks:
RefGrab-It, a feature within RefWorks, allows users to capture data from web sites through a simple single click!
An enhanced version of RefGrab-It is now available for users with two different versions:
a bookmarklet (for use in Internet Explorer and Firefox)
a plug-in (one specifically for Internet Explorer and one specifically for [...]
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From the Tampa Library, following the water dammage of May 14:
This morning we re-opened half of the Media Resources area on the first floor of the USF Tampa Library. Half of the computers are accessible, we are making video/DVD players accessible, the scores are accessible, the Media Annex videos are accessible, and the desk [...]
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Informaworld will not be available Wednesday, May 27 from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m.
We use the Informaworld database to access the full-text of articles from scientific publishers like Taylor & Francis.
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On Monday, May 25, the Library and Open Use Lab will be closed to observe Memorial Day.
Have a great week-end!
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Brand, spanking new:
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
As the service is just starting, the number of datasets is still limited but will grow in time. Data can be searched and downloaded. Suggestions for additional resources [...]
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No, I haven’t decided to put all my thoughts on the project in Dick Cheney’s undisclosed location ™. I just haven’t had time to focus on this. When I was a grad student, I could just fiddle with stuff until 2 or 3 in the morning, but that doesn’t work anymore. Something about age, having [...]
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XHTML is the modern version of HTML, the original Web markup language. XHTML (and HTML) tags tells Web browsers how to display the information contained between the tags.
There is no difference between the .htm and .html extension.
I. Advantages of XHTML over HTML
A. [...]
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I knew that the Web had existed prior to the 1990s, but that it didn’t hit the mainstream until 1993. This chapter told we why, something that I never knew: 1993 is the year the first Web browser was introduced. And what is it that makes a Web browser so magical? A browser sends a [...]
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From the Tampa Library:
Torrential downpour floods media resources and bound periodicals
Heavy rains Wednesday night led to significant water intrusion on the USF Tampa Library’s first and second floors. Your patience is appreciated as we dry out our collections and building. Bound periodicals and other materials on the second floor are available for use but may [...]
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updated May 14
Internet Explorer 8 is now generally available, but problems still persist.
In order to use IE8 with Blackboard, you will need to change the compatibility mode of IE8 to emulate IE7
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/enhanced-navigation.aspx
It’s still in beta, so it should come as no surprise to anyone who uses it, but there are known problems with [...]
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Please take note that the textbook pickup service will start on Monday, May 11 at the *new* location and times specified in our previous post. The USF Polytechnic campus is currently on semester break for the week. The Help Desk (who distributes the textbooks) closes at 5PM for the students. The Help Desk staff [...]
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The USF Poly Bookstore has moved and is no longer located in the Library/OUL (LTB1115).
The new location is in LAC1275 (863-667-7842).
The hours of operation starting May 11, 2009 will be:
Monday-Thursday
9am-1pm & 4pm-7pm
Friday
9am-1pm & 2pm-5pm
Saturday
10am-2pm
If you have any questions about your order, please email the bookstore at sm022@bncollege.com or call 813-974-5028 (8am-3pm) or 813-974-5412 (3pm-7pm)
UPDATE: Updated [...]
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Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of April. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new reference titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
Of note, we have started receiving the 2008 award-winning Children’s Books. [...]
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Like to use RefWorks? They have announced the lauch of a mobile interface, called RefMobile.
RefMobile gives you access to the most commonly used functions:
The RefMobile interface gives users immediate access to the most commonly used RefWorks functions, including searching their entire RefWorks databases, viewing references by folders, adding and removing references from folders, [...]
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Classes over, Spring ‘09
Hoorah hooray. I guess.
Things in engineering all went pretty smooth. B’s and A’s, it seems. But everything else seemed less than satisfying. Oh well, grades will be grades, and nothing better or worse.
I’m going to keep working on user interfaces. I need to develop some better context solutions for a digital canvas.
Planting [...]
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Here is an useful compilation of tips and tools to research the Deep Web from the Online College Blog.
What is the Deep Web (or Invisible Web)? It’s the Internet content that typically will not appear after a Google or Yahoo search. This content is harder to access for various reasons: it’s dynamically generated, it [...]
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Graduating this May and afraid you might miss being in class and following lectures? Give a look at Academic Earth, a new website giving access to hundreds of video lectures and courses by faculty from some of the top universities in the US.
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving [...]
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The USF Bookstore will come to campus on the following dates for the textbook buyback
Wednesday, May 6th - 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Thursday, May 7th - 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: LTB 1120
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Check out the brand new World Digital Library - 10,000 yrs worth of significant primary documents online, from around the world.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The principal objectives of the WDL are [...]
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As we are well implanted in the Web 2.0 era, there are now different ways of enjoying news and content from the USF Poly Library:
a version of this blog for mobile devices (smart phones and the like) is now available: http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://catherin.blog.usf.edu/wp-rss2.php
as well as a Twitter page: http://twitter.com/usfplib.
Twitter name: @usfplib (you will need to create an [...]
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I thought I was so straightforward and careful, going through the 2700 records of the dataset for participants who were born in July 1963 or later (i.e., plausibly in 8th or 9th grade), adding variables for each year to recode the attendance, grade, and graduation to 1s and 0s, and then adding summary variables to [...]
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There is something new in your inbox! The Library has been working for a long time trying to get both loan and return receipts to be sent by email to our users. We had the loan receipts working first, and now the return receipts are functioning.
The system will also send out courtesy notices [...]
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Walking down the new wide sidewalk on Bruce B. Downs, I see two older people on scooter-style wheelchairs headed towards me. I mosey over to the right hand side of the sidewalk, so there will be plenty of room to pass. The older gentleman, leading the way, with a woman behind him in [...]
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This week, from April 12 to the 18, is National Library Week. It has a great theme this year: “Worlds Connect@your library”. Please come make a connection at the USF Poly Library!
Note: Tuesday April 14, is National Library Workers Day. While you are enjoying catalogs, databases, books or a full-text article from a library, please [...]
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Due to essential site maintenance, access will be temporarily unavailable for Wiley InterScience on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 for approximately one hour, starting at 4:00 AM.
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The USFP Library parking lot dropbox is now reopened!
It has moved to its new location, next to the motorcycles parking lot, just off the main entry way unto campus via Winter Lake Rd.
The dropbox is checked daily, Monday through Friday, at around 9:30 AM. Books put in the drop box after that time [...]
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Informaworld will be down Friday, April 10th, 7AM to Saturday, April 11th, 3AM.
Another round of downtime will take place Friday, April 17th, 11PM to Saturday, April 18th, 7AM.
Informaworld is a platform that gives us full text access to the Francis & Taylor and Routledge journals.
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Dear family and friends
I have been slow in keeping up with the blog and have not communicated with most anyone since the holidays. So, here is a bit of a catch up to get everyone up to speed.
We moved into our new house on Thursday the 26th of March. It was a whirl wind weekend [...]
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Tips for new ACHE students in their first semester.
Before you begin your first semester…do the following:
1. Get to know your professors. Checkout ACHE website and learn who they are. Meet and greet them. Do not miss the Graduate student retreat. The earliest one is on Saturday, Sept 12, 2009. Checkout the ACHE website!
2. Get to [...]
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I plan to use this blog to share my own experiences and share some tips for new ACHE students…
Please follow at your own risk! I will not be responsible for any consequences you have, please think carefully before you act!
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Aphasia, they say, is an impairment of all modalities of language, including listening comprehension, oral expression, reading, and writing, due to a brain injury like stroke. This definition is technically correct, but incomplete.
I first learned that this was an incomplete definition as a Master’s student, serving as a resident assistant for a specialized aphasia [...]
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Recent testing has shown that the 1.6.0_12 version of Java shows a better user experience than the previous versions. Elluminate recommends that users on Windows update to this version of Java at the earliest opportunity - you can find the latest version at the Sun Java download page.
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There are a couple of course roles available in Blackboard. I’ll do my best to explain them and how they come to pass at USF.
The most privileged role is called Instructor. The Instructor role has full access to the course in Blackboard. They can change the roles(promote or demote) of other people [...]
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Late last week I received the exemption letter and downloaded the dataset for NLSY79 from the NLS Investigator.
Next step: familiarize myself with the sampling codes for R (an open-source statistical package similar to S-Plus). I wish R had been around when I was in grad school, because in several ways it’s simpler than either SAS [...]
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From the time you start to stand on your own small feet while trying to say “dada,” you’re already beginning the process of learning. After this point, you go to elementary school, middle school, high school, and now you’re in college. Elbert Hubbard, an American author and editor, stated that, “Education is a form of [...]
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Trey & Train, originally uploaded by paulltran.
I could write about Trey all I want and he still wouldn’t know about my blog. Well, not for now at least. Trey and I went driving down an old road and found some abandoned trains. Cool look…i must say.
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Tampa Theater, originally uploaded by paulltran.
There are many things to see in Tampa. I love how nice and old everything looks in the downtown area. This is when I attended the Gasparilla (did I spell that right?) art festival. The lighting and everything looked great that day.
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After three weeks of communication with USF Academic Computing, I finally got them to delete the old blog so I could start over. Maybe it was hacked, I don’t know, and they kept telling me it was working.
Anyway, now I have a fresh blog to work with for another class.
Bye for now . . .
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In my continued search of a new language/framework/thing to pick up, I’ve become pretty fascinated with Ruby. The word I have settled on for the Ruby language itself is “concise”, coming from C the amount of work that can be done in a few lines often makes me feel like I’ve left something out… but [...]
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The Blackboard Grade Center benefits from having a lot of vertical screen space in which to display rows of students. The web browser uses a lot of that space with tool bars, address bars, and other bars. In Windows, you can temporarily reclaim that space by going into FullScreen mode. In [...]
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Whee I’ve updated the wordpress from the horrible default (v1.5) to the latest, v2.7.1!
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I sent in the request for an IRB exemption certification for this pilot project, because secondary analysis of existing longitudinal data sets would not give me any identifiable information. There is an option for the NLSY79 to acquire geocoding (which requires permission from the Bureau of Labor Statistics as well as an IRB form), but [...]
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Update 1:31pm: Blackboard is back to full service levels.
A system error occurred overnight March 4th resulting in Blackboard being completely unavailable from about 7:30-8:30am. Resolving the error introduced an instability in the shared file system that resulted in a bottleneck that backed everything up in Blackboard. The result was [...]
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In odd moments in the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with a standard demographic concept, the stationary population model. This is one of those things that don’t really exist in reality, a population with constant mortality and fertility rates, with no migration in or out, and where the population is the same every [...]