Archive for April, 2007
New York City Ballet dress rehearsal
Free tickets to the April 29, 2007 final dress rehearsal for the New York City Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet will be distributed on April 22nd at 9:00 am.
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Tutortrac library feature gets thumbs up
For several semester we’ve had a ton of CD’s, DVD’s, VHS tapes, books and other minutia piling up in our center. Despite all our efforts it was a tough sell getting students to use them for independent study. Part of the reason for the resistance is that we required students to use the media within the center so as to minimize loss and damage. Since archiving these resources in Tutortrac’s library we’ve had a small but steady stream of students borrowing items. We no longer worry about loss and damage since there is an electronic record of each transaction. Except for the upfront archiving our library is now pretty much of a turnkey operation. Very useful feature.
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Helpful Firefox extensions for Tutortrac
The Firefox browser extensions Resizeable Form Fields, Repagination, Colorful Tabs, ReloadEvery and NoSquint are helpful when performing repetitious Tutortrac work. Resizable form fields allows you to enlarge windows within Tutortrac and other applications so that you can view the entire contents at a glance. If a list of items span multiple pages, Repagination allows you to view the entire list in one browser window. Used in conjunction with Resizeable Form Fields, Repagination reduces the amount of keystrokes and open windows (demo via lifehacker). Colorful Tabs allows you to open and manage multiple tabs (a firefox feature that reduces the need for multiple windows). It is especially helpful when examining multiple records from a list. ReloadEvery reloads your screen every so many seconds or minutes that you specify. Helpful for monitoring sign-in traffic. Finally, NoSquint remembers text size preferences so that you can set and forget when using Firefox.
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