{"id":228,"date":"2007-08-21T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2007\/08\/21\/building-an-academic-and-social-web-browser\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:15:13","slug":"building-an-academic-and-social-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2007\/08\/21\/building-an-academic-and-social-web-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Building an academic, and social, web browser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Stamatiou points us to<\/a> the imminent release of Firefox Campus Edition<\/a> – a “back to school” version of the web browser that comes with a few add-ons<\/a> geared for students. <\/p>\n

While only one of the add-ons, Zotero<\/a> (which we’ve mentioned<\/a> before), has a decidedly “academic” feel to it, the concept of bundling tools in this way is intriguing. Campuses regularly offer software<\/a> that is modified to fit their user base. However with the web and even browsers themselves<\/a> becoming more social<\/a> in nature, the idea of deploying a customized browser presents all sorts of possibilities, from bookmarklets<\/a> and toolbars<\/a>, to customized search bars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you were going to build a customized version of Firefox for your campus, what would you choose to include? Keeping in mind that you can only fit so many tools<\/a> into a browser, how would you balance and blend the social and academic tools that are out there into a cohesive and useable tool for faculty and students? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Stamatiou points us to the imminent release of Firefox Campus Edition – a “back to school” version of the web browser that comes with a few add-ons geared for students. While only one of the add-ons, Zotero (which we’ve … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6868],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}