Spotlight
CDH Fights Cancer!
We at CDH actually spend weekends FIGHTING CANCER. Well, at least on the weekend of April 19th-20th this year, at the annual Relay for Life at UCLA. Relay for Life is a tag team walk-a-thon-style fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, and this year CDH has formed a team of around ten staff and family members. The UCLA event takes place in Drake Stadium over 24 hours (Saturday 12PM - Sunday 12PM), during which we’ll have at least one team member on the track the entire time. Each team member is encouraged to get donations and can set their own goal. The team goal is currently set at $1,000.
Pictures from the event coming soon!
CDH staff participants included Frank Lee, Joseph Fahs,
Linda Holmes, Annelie Rugg and her family,
and Rebecca Powers and her husband.
CDH Instructional Technology project comes to fruition
For quite some time, Nancy Ezer (Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) has been working with Ted Liu (CDH’s foreign languages instructional technology coordinator) to develop an online tool to teach Hebrew grammar. We decided to take advantage of the functionality available in Course Management systems in order to build the grammar tool. Nancy and Ted collaborated very closely, and Ted found ways to get the quiz tool to work with the many challenges that the Hebrew Workbook presented.
On December 5, Nancy and Ted talked about and demonstrated the quiz tool at a presentation in the CDH PC Lab. Shortly afterwards, our colleagues in OID picked up the item for their “tools for teaching” series. See http://tinyurl.com/3xao8x
CDH Launches New Website
June 2008 sees the launch of our new website! Our old website, seen on the left, has been replaced with this new site powered by the Joomla! Content Management System. The website has been redesigned and modernized and incorporates the new CDH logo jointly created by Calvin Tong and Shawn Higgins.
The website contains many new features such as a calendar, upcoming events, list of services, a help-yourself How To section, full site search, and many more. We continue to add features and content.
We encourage and seek comments and suggestions for our new site. Please feel free to contact us at cdh@humnet.ucla.edu or 310 206 1414.
CDH Moving Department Websites to the Joomla! Content Management System
In late 2006, CDH began a search and pilot program for a CMS for the Humanities. With the help of several departments and faculty members, we ran a successful CMS pilot with the Joomla content management system.
Calvin Tong and Joseph Vaughan gave a presentation about the Department Website Service at the Humanities Chairs and Managers meeting on October 10, 2007. Here’s a link to the slides they used (powerpoint) joomla-presentation.ppt
Other organizations or UCLA Departments that wish to inquire about our experiences with Joomla can do so by contacting Calvin Tong at calvin@humnet.ucla.edu