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Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-15

  • Author: Tom Woodward
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  • Suspect In Would-Be Airport Bombing Nabbed With Help From REI : The Two-Way : NPR

    There was no video footage this time. And again, the man paid cash. But, Anderson writes, “the individual … used an REI membership number when paying.”

    An REI membership entitles a customer to 10 percent back on purchases every year. In this case, it also gave the FBI a name — Michael Estes. After releasing a still photo from the surveillance footage, authorities found Estes in downtown Asheville. He was arrested on Oct. 7.

  • Worldly Wise – Futility Closet

    If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

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  • Author: Tom Woodward
  • Category: Weekly
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Weekly Work Log

As I’ve done in the past, I’m going to try to document what went down this week. Unlike the past, I’m actually doing this for an internal purpose so I think we’ll keep after it better. The challenge will be walking the line between giving enough context to make it useful to the 4 people who might be interested and making it too much of a hassle for me for 4 people. We’ll see how that plays out but history doesn’t look good.   This Week Workshops The HTML workshop occurred on 10/17 and was focused on IEDT members prior to offering it to a broader audience. We had 5 in-person attendees and 2 virtual attendees. ALT Lab site Faculty comment submissions are rolling in – we currently have 14 which you can see here. We’ll be exposing those quotes on the front page once we chop them up and remove some of the specificity of names. Workshops The catalog of workshops has expanded by a couple of offerings Introduction to HTML and CSS Building Automated Workflows with Google Apps Script Some visual improvements have been made to the front page Footprints on the James Site We met with [VCU FACULTY NAME] and are about 60% done with this site. There is some solid options to expand it as OER […]