Author Archives: Luke Waltzer

On the Horizon…

By Luke Waltzer | January 22, 2009

(x-posted @ Cacophony)
I’m happy to note that Blogs@Baruch received a mention in the annual Horizon Report, a document produced by Educause, an international non-profit organization “whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.”  Every year the report is read by IT and instructional technology professionals at universities and [...]

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An Experiment in Digital Storytelling

By Luke Waltzer | December 2, 2008

(x-posted at Cacophony.org)
I was recently inspired, no surprise, by a post on Jim Groom’s Bavatuesdays: “A Childhood Without Proof.” This was about as close to schmaltz as the right Rev. Groom comes, and being a sap myself, I appreciated both the content and the tone.
Jim, the 6th of 7th children, was aware of only one [...]

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Digital Project? Find Your Solution Here

By Luke Waltzer | November 20, 2008

While Blogs@Baruch is an online publishing platform for the Baruch community that revolves around WordPress blogs, the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute is interested in helping administrators, faculty, and students find the best medium through which to develop their project.  Often times, that’ll have something to do with WordPress, because its greatest strength is that [...]

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Integrate Twitter with Wordpress using Twitter Badge

By Luke Waltzer | November 18, 2008

It’s very easy to integrate one, two, many Twitter feeds with a WordPress weblog.  Bring microblogging to your course macroblog.
If you’re reading this on the front page of Blogs@Baruch, click on the title of this post to see a page with a Twitter badge tied to the baruchblogs account in action.
For feeds that just display [...]

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Gravitate towards Gravatars

By Luke Waltzer | November 17, 2008

Many Wordpress blogs support the use of Gravatars, or, “globally-recognized avatars,” which link an image file to a user’s email address.
If you are working on a blog with native support for Gravatars, or you have activated the WP-Gravatar plugin, you can allow users on your blog to display their Gravatars when they leave a comment [...]

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On Embedding Videos

By Luke Waltzer | November 14, 2008

A faculty member just emailed me with trouble embedding video from Hulu and NBC into his course blog.
Videos from YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, DailyMotion, Metacafe, MySpace, AtomFilms, Break, and Revver will embed into your site if you simply paste the URL for the video into the window that opens when click on the yellow “A” [...]

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Thinking Behind a Redesign

By Luke Waltzer | November 13, 2008

(x-posted at Cac.ophony.org)
I recently implemented a new design for the homepage for our installation of WordPress MultiUser– Blogs@Baruch.

I tried to accomplish a few things with this redesign. Mostly, I wanted to update the look of the site… the previous version was a bit clunky, a bit 2003 1999, and I didn’t feel it was popping. [...]

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Our Redesign…

By Luke Waltzer | November 12, 2008

We’ve redesigned Blogs@Baruch to create a more user-friendly and dynamic environment.  In the coming days, weeks, and months, I will be blogging in this space about goings-on at Baruch, blogging and beyond.  Feel free to join the conversation by submitting comments to my posts.

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