What is a Wiki?

This is a link to a post about what a wiki is and its application in higher education. It's a transcription of a lecture so it reads in a conversational way.
http://www.ikiw.org/2006/12/23/transcript-of-drexel-talk/

How do mics sound different?

This page has an interesting discussion of mics. Although the page is geared towards Macs (it's an Apple page after all) the side-by-side comparison of dynamic vs. condenser with audio examples is good because somebody can actually hear the same audio recorded with different types of mics.
http://www.apple.com/pro/techniques/microphones101/

CSS Footers

An article about creating footers in CSS (and it's a crisp looking site as well):
http://alistapart.com/articles/footers

CSS Floats

Here's a tutorial about CSS floats:
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/

What is Web 2.0?

This link gives a rundown as to what "Web 2.0" is.

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CSS & Dreamweaver

A helpful tutorial for learning CSS & Dreamweaver:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_concepts.html

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Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

Here is a link to some of the Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

Gracenote CDDB vs. MusicBrainz vs. AMG Lasso

This is a comparison of using Gracenote CDDB vs. MusicBrainz vs. AMG Lasso in the context of a new media player application.

Free to use?

Gracenote - only for non-commercial use; commercial use requires a license fee which is not specified on their website
MusicBrainz - yes; open-source (GPL)
AMG Lasso - unclear from website but it looks like there would be licensing fees involved

Genre tags?

Gracenote - yes
MusicBrainz - no
AMG Lasso - ?

Problems catagorizing classical music tracks?

Gracenote - yes
MusicBrainz - yes
AMG Lasso - looks like more support than the others for classical music

Used in exisiting commercial applications?

Gracenote - yes, notably iTunes
MusicBrainz - no major commercial application yet
AMG Lasso - yes, notably Windows Media Player

Downloads album cover art?

Gracenote - no
MusicBrainz - ?
AMG Lasso - yes

Recognize DVDs?

Gracenote - ?
MusicBrainz - don't think so
AMG Lasso - yes

Detail/quality level of metadata?

Gracenote - user submitted
MusicBrainz - user submitted
AMG Lasso - connected with All Media Guide printed media (which has edited reviews of CD's and DVD's)

Qmaster Distributed Processing Setup

I set up a cluster of Macs using Qmaster today but ran in to a problem during setup: Batch Monitor would only say "waiting" when a Compressor job was submitted to it. The problem was that there was not a file share that was accessible to all the service nodes in the cluster. Once I changed the default file share on the cluster controller to one that was accessible - voila! - the batch began processing.

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Opus X

The folks from Radford also talked about a project called Opus X. In the upcoming fall semester they plan to digitize their library's entire CD collection and share it via iTunes. This raises a number of traditional copyright issues (which their lawyers looked at closely and gave their approval to the project) but also provides wide, efficient access to their collection for students in their music classes.

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iPods in the classroom

Hello from the NMC 2006 conference in Cleveland. I attended an interesting lecture by two professors at Radford University about using iTunes and iPods in the context of a music history class. Every student in the class next semester will be required to own an iPod and will get content downloaded from the library to it. The professors have created a simple multiple choice quiz that the students can take on the iPod while listening to the assigned music. The professors claimed that the students retained more information about the class material because they were able to listen to the assignments more frequently and at their convenience.

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Summer Hours

Check the link above for the Gelardin New Media Center's summer hours.

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