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Elephants, Ants, and Crabs: Digital Objects as Sources for Learning and Discovery, given by Jon Chenette, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Music

Elephants, Ants, and Crabs: Digital Objects as Sources for Learning and Discovery from Baynard on Vimeo.

There’s a lot of chatter about WordPress these days, but what is it anyway?

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform… -WordPress.org

Well, OK.  But what is it really?  The simplest and most common answer is: “WordPress is for blogging.” This is true and not true.  Here’s how.

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This video was created with the help of many wonderful Vassar students, the new student orientation committee and the Media Cloisters.


2008 Vassar Library New Student Orientation from Baynard on Vimeo.

If you have any feedback you’d like to share, please contact Marisa Goudy or Baynard Bailey.

Everyone with a Vassar email account has access to Vspace.

With Vspace you can upload files from your computer into your Vspace account, and then be able to access them via the Internet. This is super useful. You don’t have to carry around a flash drive or burn a CD. You can work on something in your dorm or at home and then have it available in class or at the library.

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Click in the box below to chat with Baynard, the Media Cloisters Manager.

A wiki is a group of web pages created and edited by one person (or a group of people) that allow for easy access and editing via a web browser. The pages contain text but they also support links and other forms of markup language. 

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Google Docs (which you can use for free if you get a free gmail account) allow you to create, edit, and share word processing documents and spreadsheets. They are useful for collaborating with people on campus or overseas. There are myriad academic applications. 

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A wiki is a great way to do asynchronous collaborative creation.

Here’s a great bit of eLearning on what a wiki is:

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