Humanities @ Longwood
Celebrate the humanities at Longwood University! Check this blog site for further information.
Login timeouts
Heads up! Whenever you leave your blog logged in for eight hours with no activity you will now need to re-login to continue blogging. We don’t want random folks (or perhaps your pets) to accidently post on your blog.
– Longwood Blogs Support Team
Photo credit: spcbrass on Flickr
Fresh and Organic Longwood Blogs!
On December 13, 2012, we will be upgrading Longwood Blogs! Below are some of the exciting new features.
Media Upload Icon
The single media icon is meant for all file types and the new drag and drop interface makes uploading easy.
Theme Customizer
Theme Customization allows you to try on new themes in real time and changing the header, background, title and menus all in one place.
Twitter Embeds
Twitter Embedding feature allows you to add the URL of a tweet on a line of its one and it will automatically be embedded in a clickable way for easy replies, re-tweets, and following.
HTML Caption
HTML Image Caption allows you to include basic HTML in image captions, so you can give credit for the image or link to relevant information.
2012 Countdown: Blogs @ Longwood
Times Square Ball Drop
Happy 2013 to Longwood Blogs!
We have accomplished a lot in 2012.
Together with the Library, let’s countdown blogging highlights including some of our great projects, experiments, and achievements:
10: Cook-Cole Faculty News & Notes
keeps doing a great job on sharing scholarship activities and projects of faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences
9: Incite: Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship
prepares for 2012 publication
has migrated to Longwood Blogs and offers an easy to navigate, more streamlined interface and a friendly user experience
7: Department of Psychology Book Club
has kicked off with discussion of Kelly Lambert’s The Lab Rat Chronicles book
6: First Year Reading Experience @ Longwood
shares the Longwood community’s perspectives on reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
5: Join the Conversation: Branding
provides feedback about what makes Longwood special.
4: Insider – community-produced newsletter for faculty and staff
offers timely updates, alerts, announcements created by the LU community for the LU community
3: Graphic Design Senior Project
documents art students’ working process of their senior projects
provides inter-disciplinary lenses @ Yellowstone National Park
1: LU students across disciplines
publish and engage others in academic content daily on Longwood Blogs!
[Image by Flickr user Atomische Tom Giebel/CC-licensed]
2012 Featured Blogs
Review and Rate Potential LMS’s
Help us choose a new Learning Management System by reviewing the recorded presentations and submitting your feedback at the LMS Review Blog.
1000 Blogs!
Hi all, just a bit of blogs trivia for you: we had our 1000th blog created on May 3rd! Thanks for using our blogging platform and I hope it’s been a useful tool for you!
– the blog team
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