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How to troubleshoot network share and thumb drive disk space issues with WinDirStat
- There are many such tools, but WinDirStat has served me well, and it is free.
- Especially useful seems the treemap visualization and that you can drill in per file type, from the upper right pane, and to a file location from the tree map,. like so:
- Similarly useful on not-shared, but limited-storage drives, e.g. for deduplicating, like so:
- This detailed tutorial (which, incidentally, uses WinDirStat, can give you a list of ideas/folders where it is worthwhile checking the WinDirStat results (although one of the nice features of WinDirStat is that it sorts folders and an aggregate of the files in a folder by size).
Final Cut Pro Introduction
How do we connect to a Pearson MyLanguageLab webcast via Cisco WebEx?
- TURNS OUT THIS was not a technical issue – we will try and reconnect.
- our setup:

- our instructions

- misc: Do we have to use the phone for audio? We have computer audio

- misc:

- our error: “the host has not yet joined the meeting”

- Submitting support ticket that references this blog post

- At some point, we get booted to next week’s meeting (no surprise then that the host has not joined the meeting).
Humanities and Technology Unconference @davidson.edu on 5/5/2012 (register by 4/15/2012)
- THATCampPiedmont, hosted at Davidson College, announces:
- “THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” It’s an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot.
- If you’re interested in the Humanities; or,
- if you’ve just begun thinking about your research or teaching in conjunction with technology; or,
- if you’re accomplished using or interpreting technology; or,
- if you’ve been wondering why the digital humanities have been garnering so much attention at professional conventions…
- …you will likely find it fascinating to participate in the THATCamp we are hosting here.
- Participants meet the morning of the event and decide what to talk about.”
- Limit: 75 registrations.
A template for Digital audio lab model-imitation/question-response oral exams
Apply for STARTALK Travel grants for Summer Institute on LCTL by 5/1/2012
“The Penn Center for Foreign Language Teaching and Learning with Technology (PLC) will host the second STARTALK Excellence in Leadership Summer Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. For each of the languages (Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Swahili, Turkish and Urdu), the Summer Institute invites no more than five participants for each language group. These participants must hold positions as principals, supervisors of world language and/or language program directors who wish to implement curricular changes, employ pedagogically-sound applications of technology and gain leadership know-how in an effort to strengthen, expand and solidify their respective programs. These leaders will become STARTALK multiplicators who in turn will promote and implement programmatic and curricular changes. The program of the Summer Institute is designed for Leader-Teachers to:
• gain leadership know-how
• strengthen existing programs
• expand and solidify programs
• discuss current pedagogical trends in language education
• promote and implement curricular changes
• endorse lasting efficacy of robust learning outcomes
• practice pedagogically-sound applications of technology
• engage in succinct field building opportunities
Applications are due May 1, 2012. To apply and for information about travel and accommodations, please visit our website at:
http://www.plc.sas.upenn.edu/elsi2012/Application.html”

