When we migrated to the new version of Movable Type, the Flash movies and illustrated guides that I had developed over the years were no longer of any use. Today I created new guides and added them, via text links, to the Tip Sheet. These are illustrated with screen shots and saved to RTF so that they will open in any word processing software. I emailed the list of current bloggers. Most blogs have a link to the Tip Sheet on its homepage. Viva La Difference
June 2008 Archives
I took a deep breath, selected open and it worked! Here is last weeks iTunes U spreadsheet, ready for you to download
Here is the report that includes the past two weeks. Miguel at Apple wrote that the "good news is that we think we tracked down the issue and this shouldn't be a problem moving forward. Thank you for your patience with this." download the spreadsheet
For the week of June 1st-7th, three of the Mars mission tracks were downloaded well over 2,000 times. AND! 24,963 downloads for the landing animation the previous week. That was the video that made it to number 2 on the iTunes U most downloaded list. Not our list, Apple's.
The spreadsheet files that I received for last week's stats were again corrupted. Miguel wrote this morning that Apple is "trying to figure out the root of this. We are not sure if something is breaking on creation or in the delivery process somewhere. It also seems to only happen to a small portion of our sites." I had checked this week's on my desktop PC, my iBook, and one of the Center's PCs. I usually figure I'm doing something wrong but not in this case. Bottomline - no stats for last week.
Miguel sent a working version of the spreadsheet that Apple sent out last Monday. It works and you can check out your stats for that one-week period. He has not heard anything more on the one for the previous week that was also corrupted.
I wrote last week that the spreadsheet showing our activity was corrupted and Apple was notified. I checked in again with Miguel yesterday. He had sent it to the tech staff for analysis but as of 12:18 a.m., they'd not yet replied. When I tried to open this week's "public" spreadsheet, I got the same corrupted file message. I made a screenshot of the message, attached that and the spreadsheet to an email message to Miguel. I'll post about it if/when I hear more.
It was inevitable. With all the colleges and universities jumping onto iTunes U, Apple had to do something about the main iTunes U page. Otherwise that left column listing the participants was going to run from Cupertino to L.A.
A month ago, I received instructions from iTunes U HQ to start categorizing our tracks. I dutifully did this but I also shared my concern with Apple's iTunes U manager. I find the categories that we can select from extraordinarily limiting.
Continue reading iTunes U've Changed.
I think we have our Apple rep Glen Banks and Miguel Young, iTunes U's project manager, to thank for this. "iTunes U adds Phoenix Mars Mission movies" appeared today in MacWorld. Glen wrote that it's the first time that he has ever seen an iTunes U article about a particular University.
