This is the first biweekly update from the Web Programming work-group. We are moving to a cyclical task and project planning work-flow in order to better prioritize our work. We acknowledge that requests will always come to us in a variety of ways and do not wish to burden members of the Middlebury community with overly formalized request processes. At the same time we also need to acknowledge that institutional and departmental priorities often shift over time and therefore we must have a work planning process that allows for flexibility that addresses the needs of the community, and maintains a healthy work environment for our staff.
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Archive for September, 2009
Web Programming Workgroup bi-weekly update: The First Edition
September 30th, 2009 by Joseph AntonioliReview of Technology in Education Sites
September 30th, 2009 by Alex ChapinTo help us create a section of the LIS site on Curricular Technology, I thought it would be good to see how other institutions publish comparable information. What we are currently calling “curricular technology” is described in various ways including “instructional technology“, “educational technology,” “academic technology,” and “technologies for teaching, learning and research.” What all of these labels have in common is seems to be the use of technology in education.
End of paging service for on-campus borrowers
September 29th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
As of October 1, you’ll notice that the “place request” button in MidCat no longer displays for materials with an “available” status. Due to decreased staffing resources, Circulation Services will no longer be able to retrieve requested materials from library shelves for on-campus borrowers.
While it was a valued service for our on-campus borrowers, a large amount of staff time was used to fill the many requests, time that must now be redirected towards core borrowing services. Please continue to alert the Circulation desks to materials that you are unable to locate – we are still here to help!
New Blog Theme
September 29th, 2009 by Alex ChapinAdam reviewed the code for ShadowBox, the new WordPress theme I developed and installed it in on WordPress at Midd. Of course, I immediately used it on our CT team blog and took advantage of some of its capabilities to give a sense of the new possibilities for layout and presentation that it introduces.
I should make it clear that this theme doesn’t introduce any functionality that other themes haven’t explored. It is modeled first and foremost on Kubrick, the default WordPress theme. In addition to this basic theme, I looked at a number of the most popular themes at wordpress.org including Atahualpa, Ahimsa, iNove to get a sense of the direction of theme development in the WordPress community.
I am hoping this will help us determine where we want to publish our work. In particular, whether we want to merge all of our work into the new LIS blog and discontinue this blog or perhaps keep this blog around an example of innovative uses of WordPress…
Presenting the new LIS Blog
September 28th, 2009 by Elin WaagenThe LIS Web Team is pleased to announce the unified LIS blog, a new and effective way to communicate with both our colleagues in LIS and with our community of users.
As part of the LIS web site make-over, the Web Team – with the support of our AD’s and our team sponsor – recommended that our many LIS blogs be combined into one. LIS website feedback this summer indicated that staff wanted it to be easier to find relevant work updates, and we think that having a unified LIS blog will help meet this need. (more…)
MiddMedia now supports more video formats
September 28th, 2009 by Adam FrancoI’ve just completed an update to our video hosting system, MiddMedia, to enable it to support the upload of additional video formats.
The Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) — the software on MiddMedia that handles streaming the video data to clients — only supports the MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv), and MPEG-4 video with H.264 encoding (.mp4) formats. Up until this point, users were required to convert their videos into one of the two supported video formats before uploading them to MiddMedia. Depending on the user’s operating system and the software they have installed, this could be a challenging proposition. With this update, videos in a variety of formats can be uploaded directly to the MiddMedia server where they will be automatically converted.
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Welcome to a Screening of Mrs. Perkins’s Ball
September 28th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
On Tuesday evening, September 29, there will be a screening of Mrs. Perkins’s Ball, a dramatization of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1847 Christmas Book, written, staged and produced by Andy Wentink for WCET-TV in Cincinnati “a few years back.” The screening is for Andy’s class From George Washington to John Travolta: Social Dance in American History and Culture (AMST0283), but other viewers are welcome. The screening will be in AXINN229 from 7:30-8:30 p.m on Tuesday 9/29.
LIS Suggestions Board
September 28th, 2009 by Carrie MacfarlaneAt last, we will have a permanent space for LIS feedback in the atrium of the Main Library. Look for the LIS Suggestions Board near the HelpDesk soon–the photo of the LIS genie will be hard to miss. The first topic you’ll see there: “Help us save money wisely: What’s most important? What can you do without?” Responses will be posted to the board and to the LIS Suggestions Blog (http://go.middlebury.edu/lissuggestions).
Web Team Meeting Agenda Thurs 10/1
September 24th, 2009 by Elin WaagenWeb Team Meeting Agenda Thurs 10/1
LIS Landing Page ( Doreen moderating)
Web Team Meeting Agenda 9/24
September 23rd, 2009 by Elin WaagenWeb team meeting agenda Thurs 9/24
Announcements etc.
Draft of one-blog announcement
Updates on work with our contacts – intersects, overlaps, team oversight over IA (not content)
Review Landing Page concept
Timeline – CMS freeze date for changes/additions
Curricular Technology – where in the IA?
Wiki training for our primary contacts?
From project timeline:
9/28 – Web Makeover Check-in with Project Manager
9/28 – Drupal Training for Project Managers
10/1 – Design staff workflow for moving content. Get feedback.
Week of 10/6 – Web Makeover – completed workbook due
Landing Page content
September 23rd, 2009 by Doreen BernierBelow is an idea of the content for the landing page (formally About LIS), from my discussions with Jeff. Keep in mind this is still pretty rough, but it’s a start. I do have a few questions that I have included in the listing below. (more…)
Meeting minutes 9/22/09
September 23rd, 2009 by Dan FrostmanCT Team Meeting Minutes 9/22/09
Present: Alex Chapin, Joy Pile, Adam Franco, Joe Antonioli, Bryan Carson, Dan Frostman
Minutes joyfully taken and presented by Dan Frostman
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"Resources" content for Academic Department pages
September 23rd, 2009 by Carrie MacfarlaneHow about something like this? It might be too text-y, but some explanation of why you’d want to contact these people/groups seems necessary.
eg, for Chemistry: (more…)
Meeting Agenda Wed 9/23
September 17th, 2009 by Elin WaagenProposed meeting agenda Wed 9/23
Announcements etc.
How to launch the one-blog (categories and terminology should be resolved by now) – communication; training
Quick links – finalize how many and terminology
From previous agendas/discussions:
How will the LIS landing page point to the Blog?
Timeline – CMS freeze date for changes/additions
Updates on work with our contacts
Curricular Technology – where in the IA?
Wiki training for our primary contacts?
Permissions for primary contacts access on web makeover folder in middfiles?
From project timeline:
9/15 – Finalize platform improvement recommendations
9/28 – Web Makeover Check-in with Project Manager
9/28 – Drupal Training for Project Managers
10/1 – Design staff workflow for moving content. Get feedback.
Week of 10/6 – Web Makeover – completed workbook due
LIS landing page and the blog
September 17th, 2009 by Jess IslerHow will the LIS landing page point to the Blog? I don’t think we’ve discussed whether or not our landing pages will contain a link to the blog, a feed to the blog, or both.
If we had both, would it make sense to have a link going to the whole blog, and a feed listing only our outward-facing category posts (and only displaying 2 or 3 posts so as not to clutter the page)?
e.g.
LIS landing page:
- Link to all blog
- Feed with Good to know(/TBD)
The LIS landing page is the only place where we have to make this determination, correct? (Since primary contacts are deciding what goes on their pages.)
LIS Quick Links
September 17th, 2009 by Elin WaagenAction to be taken following meeting with WW. Come up with possible quick links based on immediate needs of constituencies.
Decide on recommended terminology and number of quick links for the college website.
List just 2?
Library
Technical Support
Or more? If more than 2 – what should they be?
Media Services
Telephone Services
Please add your comments, ideas, suggestions to this post by 5 pm on Tuesday. Final vote at our Wed meeting.
Default All things LIS category
September 17th, 2009 by Jess IslerFollowing a long and lively discussion at our meeting today, we agreed that our team members would vote on the following terms to set as the default category name for our one blog. (This default term is intended to fill the “external” category role. We decided making this the default would encourage posters to be proactive in selecting categories.)
- Bringing knowledge to you
- Good to know
- Need to know
- The essentials
- Tuned in
Voting will end at close of business Friday, 9/18. (Please, no additional suggestions…)
Blogging: Post and Theme Statistics
September 15th, 2009 by Ian McBrideAlex Chapin wrote a neat tool to analyze stats in our wordpress database and came up with this information. This information will help show us which are the most active blogs and which themes people prefer to use. These are the most popular themes on the blogging server:
| Theme | # of blogs | % of all blogs |
| WordPress mu Default | 95 | 26.2% |
| MistyLook | 56 | 15.5% |
| Tarski | 28 | 7.7% |
| Blue Tarski | 26 | 7.2% |
| Digg 3 Columns | 19 | 5.2% |
| Middlebury | 19 | 5.2% |
| Jammed Blue | 17 | 4.7% |
| Blue Zinfandel Enhanced | 14 | 3.9% |
| Blue Zinfandel Squared Enhanced | 14 | 3.9% |
| Integral | 10 | 2.8% |
| Feather pen | 10 | 2.8% |
| Blue Box | 8 | 2.2% |
| tonus | 8 | 2.2% |
| CommentPress | 6 | 1.7% |
| Oldschool | 5 | 1.4% |
| WashMe Inverted | 4 | 1.1% |
| Note | 4 | 1.1% |
| PhilosophyTheme | 3 | 0.8% |
| WordPress mu Default/home | 3 | 0.8% |
| MiddTube_layout | 2 | 0.6% |
| WordPress Classic | 2 | 0.6% |
| schoolsinsessionA | 2 | 0.6% |
| MiddEarth | 2 | 0.6% |
| Feet | 1 | 0.3% |
| NT-authory | 1 | 0.3% |
| Feng Shui | 1 | 0.3% |
| schoolsinsessionB | 1 | 0.3% |
| Tarski for the Symposium | 1 | 0.3% |
And here are the blogs ranked by number of posts:
| Blog | # of Posts | % of total posts |
| Evolving Forms of Literacy | 362 | 4.19 |
| Circulation Services | 331 | 3.83 |
| Media Technology 2008 | 318 | 3.68 |
| Peer Writing Tutors at Middlebury College | 299 | 3.46 |
| The Language Wars | 289 | 3.34 |
| Middlebury Headlines | 276 | 3.19 |
| Graphic Novel | 267 | 3.09 |
| MIIS@work | 219 | 2.53 |
| A blog @ all things LIS | 214 | 2.48 |
| Presidential Power | 164 | 1.9 |
| Fast Food/Slow Food | 154 | 1.78 |
| William Tell Coleman Library | 138 | 1.6 |
| Office of Student Services | 120 | 1.39 |
| Stories from a Vermont Town | 113 | 1.31 |
| Office of International Services | 107 | 1.24 |
| Watching The Wire | 106 | 1.23 |
| Policy Career Development Newsletter | 105 | 1.21 |
| Jane Austen and Film | 101 | 1.17 |
| MIIS DMC | 98 | 1.13 |
| Geospatial Technology in LIS | 86 | 1 |
| Monterey Institute MAP Peer Mentor Program | 83 | 0.96 |
| Random Roamings | 77 | 0.89 |
| LIS Website Project | 76 | 0.88 |
| Quinde Journey to the Past | 75 | 0.87 |
| LIS Restructuring | 72 | 0.83 |
| Slices of Cake | 71 | 0.82 |
| One Dean�s View | 64 | 0.74 |
| LIS Suggestions | 63 | 0.73 |
| Jane Austen 06 | 63 | 0.73 |
| International Political Economy (Spring 2009) | 60 | 0.69 |
| Beowulf Parallel Computing Cluster | 59 | 0.68 |
| Winning the Race Together at Middlebury | 57 | 0.66 |
| De Middelbury � Poitiers : Le Blog | 56 | 0.65 |
| Computer Science Systems | 56 | 0.65 |
| Brendan Owens Test | 54 | 0.62 |
| Name of the Rose | 54 | 0.62 |
| Theories of Popular Culture | 54 | 0.62 |
| Biomass at Middlebury | 53 | 0.61 |
| Middlebury Web Makeover | 52 | 0.6 |
| Film and Media Culture at Middlebury | 52 | 0.6 |
| Anthroposophy in Art | 49 | 0.57 |
| Web Makeover Docs | 47 | 0.54 |
| Ian’s Web Services | 47 | 0.54 |
| How Did You Get Here? | 47 | 0.54 |
| Global Warming Solutions – the FYSE1239 blog | 46 | 0.53 |
| The Middlebury Trailrunner | 46 | 0.53 |
| kade collaborati | 43 | 0.5 |
| Shweta’s Space | 41 | 0.47 |
| Learning to Write College Papers | 41 | 0.47 |
| Tomorrow is another day | 40 | 0.46 |
| RIDDIM World Dance Troupe | 39 | 0.45 |
| Power Strip | 38 | 0.44 |
| Academic Consulting Services | 38 | 0.44 |
| SGAFC Minutes Blog | 38 | 0.44 |
| The home of the Grille Ghost | 37 | 0.43 |
| Global Justice | 37 | 0.43 |
| One Dean’s View | 37 | 0.43 |
| Sticks and Stones Magazine Submissions | 37 | 0.43 |
| International Law (Spring 2009) | 35 | 0.4 |
| Middlebury College Rugby Club | 35 | 0.4 |
| Middlebury Outdoor Guide | 34 | 0.39 |
| Writing to Heal | 34 | 0.39 |
| Transmedia Storytelling in Television 2.0 | 34 | 0.39 |
| Ron on Middlebury | 33 | 0.38 |
| saijai’s space | 32 | 0.37 |
| Brett’s Class Blog | 32 | 0.37 |
| Digital Media Tutors | 32 | 0.37 |
| Curricular Technology Team | 32 | 0.37 |
| The one best thing that happened today. | 31 | 0.36 |
| angeow | 31 | 0.36 |
| International Political Economy (Fall 09) | 31 | 0.36 |
| Student Symposiums: Resources for Presenters | 30 | 0.35 |
| Staff Book Groups | 30 | 0.35 |
| Disability in a Global Context | 30 | 0.35 |
| meanderings of a hungry mind | 28 | 0.32 |
| Ross’s Retreat | 28 | 0.32 |
| blog, jj, blog. | 28 | 0.32 |
| Emily goes to Middlebury! | 27 | 0.31 |
| geography of islands | 27 | 0.31 |
| Middlebury Christian Fellowship | 26 | 0.3 |
| LIS Advisory Groups | 26 | 0.3 |
| Jared’s Narrative Media Musings | 26 | 0.3 |
| Nick Bestor’s “Narration Across Media” Blogtacular Extravaganza | 25 | 0.29 |
| 19th Century Russian Literature | 25 | 0.29 |
| film and online video | 25 | 0.29 |
| During the life | 24 | 0.28 |
| James Ashley Morrison | 24 | 0.28 |
| Teaching with Technology | 24 | 0.28 |
| A Stonebraker Narrative | 24 | 0.28 |
| Brainerd Commons | 24 | 0.28 |
| Spotlight/Focus on MIIS | 23 | 0.27 |
| James’ Blog | 22 | 0.25 |
| International Order in the 20th Century (Fall 09) | 21 | 0.24 |
| CSO: Career Services Media Archive | 21 | 0.24 |
| The Terra Project | 21 | 0.24 |
| New Media @ MIIS | 21 | 0.24 |
| Macroeconomic Theory | 21 | 0.24 |
| Mehdi Prevot | 20 | 0.23 |
| MiddEarth | 20 | 0.23 |
| Language School Video Contest | 19 | 0.22 |
| THE ECONOMICS COURT JESTER | 19 | 0.22 |
| 431 – Matt Leonard | 19 | 0.22 |
| Narration Across Scott | 19 | 0.22 |
| Vermont Campus Compact | 18 | 0.21 |
| EC265 – ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS | 18 | 0.21 |
| Middle East Studies at Middlebury | 18 | 0.21 |
| Alumni & Parent Programs | 18 | 0.21 |
| Aaron Smith’s Response Journal | 18 | 0.21 |
| Getting to 350: Building Strategies for 21st Century Aspirations | 18 | 0.21 |
| Writing College Papers | 18 | 0.21 |
| On That Note | 18 | 0.21 |
| In the Middle | 17 | 0.2 |
| Duna Tatour | 17 | 0.2 |
| MiddTube | 17 | 0.2 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 17 | 0.2 |
| Birth of the Cool: American Culture at Mid-Century | 17 | 0.2 |
| Blogging at Middlebury | 17 | 0.2 |
| Ioana’s “Narration Across Media” Blog | 16 | 0.19 |
| MIISpoken | 16 | 0.19 |
| Andrew’s Blog | 15 | 0.17 |
| ES380 – 21st Century Global Challenges | 15 | 0.17 |
| Charlie’s thoughts on Narration Across Media | 15 | 0.17 |
| David Ellis’ Narration Blog | 15 | 0.17 |
| narration across media | 15 | 0.17 |
| Facilities Services | 15 | 0.17 |
| Asmedia | 15 | 0.17 |
| Test Blog | 14 | 0.16 |
| Midd:day | 14 | 0.16 |
| Helena’s Home | 14 | 0.16 |
| Virtual Worlds at Middlebury | 14 | 0.16 |
| Reserves Information | 13 | 0.15 |
| More than The Fourth Estate | 13 | 0.15 |
| Careers in the Common Good | 13 | 0.15 |
| Narration Across Media | 13 | 0.15 |
| The Middlebury Landscape | 13 | 0.15 |
| 51 Main | 13 | 0.15 |
| AcaTechie | 12 | 0.14 |
| Bid Chaos Welcome | 12 | 0.14 |
| Farming in Starksboro Vermont | 12 | 0.14 |
| alexblog | 12 | 0.14 |
| ^~^ | 12 | 0.14 |
| ES SENIOR SEMINAR | 12 | 0.14 |
| Jue’s | 12 | 0.14 |
| Web Communications | 12 | 0.14 |
| Matthew Kimble’s Lab | 12 | 0.14 |
| Middlebury College Women’s Rugby Club | 12 | 0.14 |
| DJCElektropage | 11 | 0.13 |
| A Teachable Movement | 11 | 0.13 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 11 | 0.13 |
| Alliance for Civic Engagement | 11 | 0.13 |
| End Beginning and Middle | 11 | 0.13 |
| Middlebury en Guadalajara | 11 | 0.13 |
| Talha’s Roamings | 11 | 0.13 |
| Orientation 2009 | 10 | 0.12 |
| MiddFund | 10 | 0.12 |
| Honor Code Review Discussion Boards | 10 | 0.12 |
| Jason Narrating Across Media | 10 | 0.12 |
| Trees are Nice | 10 | 0.12 |
| Research Blog 09 | 10 | 0.12 |
| SGA Comprehensive Fee Committee | 10 | 0.12 |
| H.Schuerger | 9 | 0.1 |
| blog | 9 | 0.1 |
| Digital Driving | 9 | 0.1 |
| middlebury meta-confessional | 9 | 0.1 |
| A(twater) Log | 9 | 0.1 |
| Shel’s Blog | 9 | 0.1 |
| LIS Project Directory | 9 | 0.1 |
| The Board | 9 | 0.1 |
| What’s Happening in Special Collections | 9 | 0.1 |
| Middlebury College Organic Garden | 9 | 0.1 |
| LIS Forms | 8 | 0.09 |
| Institutional Planning & Diversity | 8 | 0.09 |
| Peter’s world | 8 | 0.09 |
| SporkTV | 8 | 0.09 |
| Stroblpeter’s Abenteuer | 8 | 0.09 |
| Environmental Affairs Information | 8 | 0.09 |
| Career Services Internship Programs | 8 | 0.09 |
| Quincy’s Blog | 8 | 0.09 |
| US-Mexico Relations | 8 | 0.09 |
| New England Review | 8 | 0.09 |
| AccuTrack Administration Notes | 8 | 0.09 |
| A Brief History of Lake Champlain | 8 | 0.09 |
| The Keys to Angels and Demons | 8 | 0.09 |
| Mero Sansar | 7 | 0.08 |
| untitled | 7 | 0.08 |
| Event Scheduling & Information | 7 | 0.08 |
| Test Public Safety | 7 | 0.08 |
| Voices Along the Way FYSE | 7 | 0.08 |
| Multimedia Tutor Training at Midd | 7 | 0.08 |
| English at the Monterey Institute | 7 | 0.08 |
| Allison Stanger | 7 | 0.08 |
| Middlebury Schools Abroad | 7 | 0.08 |
| Mexico-US Relations | 7 | 0.08 |
| LISterine Workshops | 7 | 0.08 |
| Middlebury Class of 2011 | 7 | 0.08 |
| FYSE’s blog for learning about learning | 7 | 0.08 |
| Test Kimble Lab | 6 | 0.07 |
| Revelations Run Amok | 6 | 0.07 |
| Dolci | 6 | 0.07 |
| Aspirationalism | 6 | 0.07 |
| ACS Liaisons | 6 | 0.07 |
| M2 IPMS | 6 | 0.07 |
| UMOJA Election | 6 | 0.07 |
| Facilities Furniture | 6 | 0.07 |
| Microphilanthropy | 6 | 0.07 |
| 6 | 0.07 | |
| The Pizza Process 2009 | 6 | 0.07 |
| The Malleable Human | 6 | 0.07 |
| CCAL | 6 | 0.07 |
| Jeffrey Byers | 6 | 0.07 |
| “What does Middlebury mean to you”? | 6 | 0.07 |
| Maple Falling in Vermont | 6 | 0.07 |
| Kiewit Scholarship at Middlebury | 6 | 0.07 |
| world can be more beautiful | 6 | 0.07 |
| Administrative Systems | 5 | 0.06 |
| Test of CommentPress | 5 | 0.06 |
| Advanced Beginning Dance | 5 | 0.06 |
| Vermont Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission | 5 | 0.06 |
| Student Fellowships and Scholarships | 5 | 0.06 |
| DPS Telecom Blog | 5 | 0.06 |
| Public Affairs test | 5 | 0.06 |
| INTERNET ART | 5 | 0.06 |
| middlebury squash | 5 | 0.06 |
| Flat Tire | 5 | 0.06 |
| Media Services | 5 | 0.06 |
| Alex Chapin | 5 | 0.06 |
| Teaching & Learning Collaborative | 5 | 0.06 |
| Midd East Action | 5 | 0.06 |
| Internships ‘R Us | 5 | 0.06 |
| Digital Media for Change | 4 | 0.05 |
| Middlebury College Blogs | 4 | 0.05 |
| MMLA Faculty Site | 4 | 0.05 |
| Another Dean’s View | 4 | 0.05 |
| Captains, kings and caudillos | 4 | 0.05 |
| Chris’ blog | 4 | 0.05 |
| Parenthetical Phase | 4 | 0.05 |
| Creative Process | 4 | 0.05 |
| Career Services Office | 4 | 0.05 |
| Keith’s blog | 4 | 0.05 |
| College Advancement | 4 | 0.05 |
| MIDD Web2.0 | 4 | 0.05 |
| Watts What | 4 | 0.05 |
| Brendan’s Blog | 4 | 0.05 |
| Firefly Project | 4 | 0.05 |
| Google Apps @ Middlebury | 4 | 0.05 |
| FYSE1121 Representations of Urban Italy | 4 | 0.05 |
| You Turn Radio | 3 | 0.03 |
| New England Afghan Community | 3 | 0.03 |
| La bit�cora de Carlos Jurado | 3 | 0.03 |
| Turtle Island Radio.com | 3 | 0.03 |
| Barnwell Project | 3 | 0.03 |
| Petar’s Blog | 3 | 0.03 |
| Economic Metaphors & Storytelling | 3 | 0.03 |
| In Hardwood Groves | 3 | 0.03 |
| Revolution, Intellectuals and the State | 3 | 0.03 |
| Midd CSO: Senior Program | 3 | 0.03 |
| catablogger | 3 | 0.03 |
| Urban Gardening | 3 | 0.03 |
| Salamander Rescues | 3 | 0.03 |
| Contemporary Moral Issues | 3 | 0.03 |
| Midd Musings: internet, strategy, et al | 3 | 0.03 |
| Kate Sullivan | 3 | 0.03 |
| Human Resources | 3 | 0.03 |
| Template for New Blogs | 3 | 0.03 |
| Digital Media Supervisor | 3 | 0.03 |
| Middlebury Printing Project | 3 | 0.03 |
| A View From The Basement | 3 | 0.03 |
| LIS Graduate Internship | 3 | 0.03 |
| Work | 3 | 0.03 |
| Database of Organisations | 3 | 0.03 |
| Cook Commons Council | 3 | 0.03 |
| Aesthetics of the Moving Image | 3 | 0.03 |
| testing 1 2 3 | 3 | 0.03 |
| Computing Policy & Security touches us all | 3 | 0.03 |
| Daisy’s Dreamland | 3 | 0.03 |
| Timilsina Corp. | 3 | 0.03 |
| Public Saftey | 3 | 0.03 |
| Let’s Talk Poetry Now | 3 | 0.03 |
| Media Lab Tutoring from Erik Fendik’s point of view | 3 | 0.03 |
| The Wonnablog | 3 | 0.03 |
| Rohatyn Center for International Affairs | 3 | 0.03 |
| Just another day… | 2 | 0.02 |
| Adam’s Test Blog | 2 | 0.02 |
| Logblog | 2 | 0.02 |
| Business Intelligence | 2 | 0.02 |
| Programma Settimanale | 2 | 0.02 |
| International Law (Spring 2010) | 2 | 0.02 |
| FYSE 1278 Fall 09 Picturing Nature | 2 | 0.02 |
| Chris’ Blog | 2 | 0.02 |
| SpareTime | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Mountain Club | 2 | 0.02 |
| egullick | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Magazine | 2 | 0.02 |
| New England Young Writers Conference | 2 | 0.02 |
| WordPress @ Middlebury | 2 | 0.02 |
| raja | 2 | 0.02 |
| Russian for a year | 2 | 0.02 |
| chathaji | 2 | 0.02 |
| test | 2 | 0.02 |
| smurf madness | 2 | 0.02 |
| koalaZ | 2 | 0.02 |
| MiddBorrowing | 2 | 0.02 |
| qchong | 2 | 0.02 |
| Robyn’s Roamings | 2 | 0.02 |
| Theatre | 2 | 0.02 |
| Media Forms | 2 | 0.02 |
| omyomtov | 2 | 0.02 |
| Chaplain’s Office | 2 | 0.02 |
| Envisioning and planning transinstitutional work i | 2 | 0.02 |
| Student Employment | 2 | 0.02 |
| MoreMedia | 2 | 0.02 |
| My Sanctuary | 2 | 0.02 |
| Office Services-MIIS | 2 | 0.02 |
| The Segue from Segue | 2 | 0.02 |
| SIGHT AND SOUND l | 2 | 0.02 |
| Chemistry & Biochemistry | 2 | 0.02 |
| Emotion Expt | 2 | 0.02 |
| Chad Harris III | 2 | 0.02 |
| International Tax Questions | 2 | 0.02 |
| Commons Administration | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Career Services | 2 | 0.02 |
| Monterey Institute Student Journals | 2 | 0.02 |
| Ross Commons Council | 2 | 0.02 |
| Bread Loaf School of English | 2 | 0.02 |
| where I can create forms | 2 | 0.02 |
| MIIS Student Journals | 2 | 0.02 |
| Ten Votes | 2 | 0.02 |
| The Life of Vincent Jones | 2 | 0.02 |
| Judicial Boards | 2 | 0.02 |
| Code Simple | 2 | 0.02 |
| Digital Media Commons | 2 | 0.02 |
| Brendan Owens Test Blog | 2 | 0.02 |
| Captains, Kings and Caudillos | 2 | 0.02 |
| LIS User Services Statistics | 2 | 0.02 |
| the abcdarium | 2 | 0.02 |
| teaching & learning snippets | 2 | 0.02 |
| Adam’s Testing blog | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Planned Giving Conference | 2 | 0.02 |
| Midd Global Action | 2 | 0.02 |
| Anna Karenina in the 21st Century | 2 | 0.02 |
| musings | 2 | 0.02 |
| MIDD Confessional Forum | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Class of �85 | 2 | 0.02 |
| sustainability | 2 | 0.02 |
| The Dissipated Eight | 2 | 0.02 |
| Ian’s Test | 2 | 0.02 |
| Innovation | 2 | 0.02 |
| scuola | 2 | 0.02 |
| Discussion Veguez | 2 | 0.02 |
| ACS | 2 | 0.02 |
| ETI | 2 | 0.02 |
| Arabic House | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Public Affairs | 2 | 0.02 |
| It’s a linguistic cadaver-all bones, no meat | 2 | 0.02 |
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Surveys and Focus Groups
September 14th, 2009 by Alex ChapinClearly both surveys and focus groups are important tools for gathering information about a particular population. Usually surveys are used first, to a get general sense of the population. Surveys are then followed by focus groups that get more in depth information.
However a case can be made for reversing this order and starting with focus groups first, followed by surveys (see: “Use of Focus Groups in Survey Item Development“, The Qualitative Report, Nassar and Borders, March, 2002). Focus groups can often help to define survey questions or inform how questions are phrased. This can be particularly important for technology surveys, helping to couch questions in terms that those surveyed can understand.