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Hello there! This is mostly for students and colleagues. Since our IT systems were taken offline the morning of Sunday, 18 February, due to a cyber incident, I don’t have university email, Driv...

https://jliedl.ca/2024/02/21/university-it-outage/

Over at 11D, Laura asked, Do you Fitbit? My answer could be summed up as “heck, yeah!” I received a Fitbit for my birthday in the spring and promptly fell in love with what it could do for me...

https://jliedl.ca/2016/09/27/my-friend-the-fitbit/

This spring I started using Evernote which, if you don’t already know it, is a multi-platform notetaking system. I’m pretty certain that I got interested in using it via Profhacker which is a...

https://jliedl.ca/2014/09/18/everloving-evernote/

I opened up my email this evening to see yet another student email with the familiar attachment icon. Oh, joy: another unwanted emailed assignment. You’d think I wouldn’t receive those since ...

https://jliedl.ca/2012/12/10/assignment-policies-they-matter/

I have a digital picture frame that I’ve finally set up. I loaded the SD card with a hundred or so images off of my computer: pets, kids, vacations, the garden. Then I plugged it in, programmed...

https://jliedl.ca/2012/05/13/picture-perfect-mothers-day/

I’ve joined Pinterest so I have a place to brainstorm about course readings. Seriously: it’s turning out to be a great tool as I plan for the fall term by pinning all the possible texts. It w...

https://jliedl.ca/2012/05/08/pinteresting-books/

Oh, University of Chicago Press, let me count the ways in which I love thee. . . . Ah, scratch the pseudo-archaism. I love this press for many reasons but the one I’m blogging about today is th...

https://jliedl.ca/2012/03/07/my-love-letter-to-a-press/

Last year I got an ergonomic redesign of my university office. It didn’t go smoothly at first but after getting them to move the keyboard shelf to the orientation I’d originally requested and...

https://jliedl.ca/2011/05/29/what-about-workspace/

A New Poste Wherin are divers Admirable Workes Wrought With Pixels. (and with acknowledgement to John Taylor’s Needles Excellency of 1631 as well as my esteemed blogger-friend, Historiann, who ...

https://jliedl.ca/2011/05/24/the-e-readers-excellency/