Miscellaneous

I have updated the Easy Button page found at http://lis.luther.edu/node/2774 with more Luther calendars. If you are interested in adding Luther Holiday, Luther Academic, Regents Center hours, and many other calendars please visit the above link and click the ‘Add to Google Calendar’ button next to the calendar you are interested in.

This page also shows how to create your own Easy Button for your calendar here on campus. If anyone is interested in having their calendar added to the page or would like assistance creating an Easy Button, please contact Lynnette at perrylyn@luther.edu.

In 1911, the Luther College Concert Band went on a 12 week tour to the Pacific Coast and the Northwest States. The tour included the opportunity for the band to climb Mt. Rainier in Washington State.

Please note, the title of this series has changed from Luther College Fun Facts to Luther College Moments in History.

On this date in 1929, Luther College purchased the Jewell Farm for $60,000. This was the first substantial addition of land to the college’s property, including the land where many campus buildings now stand.

Google Earth for the Human Body

Tech news sources are reporting that Delicious, the social bookmarking site operated by Yahoo!, will be closed.

While Yahoo! has not announced a date for Delicious service to stop, users of the service may want to begin considering alternate means of backing up and sharing links. Recently, the productivity blog Lifehacker offered a few possible alternatives.

The student registration dates for J-term and Spring 2011 will be November 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, and 17 of 2010 with times scheduled from 5:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. each evening.
Students will be getting their registration time from their advisor and should check their registration clearance on my.luther.edu prior to their registration time.

The Publications Office has added a link on Luther Admissions site to feature a virtual campus tour. It features a look inside Preus Library with the other scenic areas of the campus.

http://www.luther.edu/about/campus/virtualtour/

From the Admissions site you can also click on “Photo tour” to get to the virtual campus tour. Send your feedback and comments about the tour to the Publications Office at www@luther.edu

A sampling of diverse IP address subnets from which viewers originate is plotted out on the attached map. The sample shows 99 spots out of the over 6,000 different IP addresses that have successfully viewed the Eaglecam from Luther College’s website over the last six days:

We have apparently been able to limit incoming traffic to the Eaglecam to only those connections originating from the official link: http://www.luther.edu/eaglecam. Since numerous urls were posted and harvested by Google there are a lot of rejections occurring at the Streaming Server which should continue until those interested get directed to Luther’s gateway to the popular site.

LIS has added a new menu item on my.luther called “Textbook Information” to provide
students information about the textbooks associated with their Luther courses.

In August 2008, the Higher Education Opportunity Act was reauthorized. Section 133
of the Act deals with the requirement for institutions to provide textbook information at the time a student registers for a course. The textbook provision takes effect on July 1, 2010.

The Textbook Information option links to the Luther Book Shop website. Currently, only Spring course and textbook information is available.