The Center for Documentary is offering FREE multimedia workshops on Tuesdays – (beginning 9/1/09) from 6-8 p.m. in the Education Center, Room 207. Students are welcome. For more information contact Dave Brown at BrownDD1@cofc.edu

Move in weekend was a resounding success for everyone involved.  For those interested, here are the preliminary statistics on how many computers were configured.  Between Student Computing support and Campus Technologies, we had 20 technicians available on both days.

554 students came in requesting help, including some that had to come back due to problems in residence halls or connection questions.  Also, some were missing passwords or had to go get their charger and come back.

Here’s the breakdown on OS types for computers that were successfully configured:

• 258 running Vista
• 211 running OSX
• 58 running XP
• 4 running Windows 7
• 4 phones

Monday, August 24, 2009 @ 2PM
Welcome Week Event: Top Web Apps to Help with College Life
Addlestone Library Room 120 | Register Now!

Join us TODAY to  learn the best Web apps to help you get your work done and get it looking good.  Each semester, the Library offers workshops on information resources to the campus.  The theme this semester is “Back to School: Top Web Apps to Help you with College Life.”  During Welcome Week we’ll give an overview of the Fall 09 sessions.

The first 20 students who register for the Welcome Week Informational Session get a FREE Flash Drive!

Did you know that you can embed Flickr Photos and Slideshows into your blog?  I didn’t until I ran across this article from Digital Inspiration on How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website.

Here is an excerpt from the article with directions on how to embed a flickr image and slideshow:

To embed an individual Flickr photograph in your blog, click the “Share This” link (available next to the photo title) and choose embed it.

To embed a Flickr photo slideshow in your web page, open any Slideshow in a new page and choose “Customize HTML” from the embed option. Here you can specify a custom size for your Flash slideshow so that it fits just right into your web page.

Here is an example of an embedded flickr slideshow.  The directions worked great!  Questions?  Need help embedding your slideshow? Send me a comment!

Data presentation can be more than tables, pie charts and bar graphs.  To convey the message you want to present, you might want to be a little more creative to catch your audiences attention.  Here are a few creative approaches to help you reconsider your average pie chart.

found via Libology from VisualLiteracy.org

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods is a great resource if you have information you need to present visually, but don’t know the best way to express it. Simply go to the site and let your mouse hover over the examples in the different categories.  Note the creative use of the Periodic Table structure…”

Other great resources on the visual display of information worth reviewing:

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
• Info Graphics Video: Little Red Riding Hood by Tomas Nilsson -  An information graphics version of the classic tale Little Red Ridinghood
• Visualization Options Available in Many Eyes – A wide array of possibilities from the ordinary to the experimental
• Housing Prices Roller Coaster by by infosthetics – US Home prices from 1890 to today, adjusted for inflation, plotted as a roller coaster ride
• Wordle – Generates “word clouds” from text that you provide
• Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts