Seems like the Cog Dog and teachinghacks.com having been doing a little sharing about their WordPress plugins, which I find extremely useful -so thanks. I have been talking a bit lately about some of the plugins I have recently discovered here, here, and here -but the following list is a quick and dirty [...]
Archive for December, 2006
The WordPress Plugins in My Life
Published by December 29th, 2006 in WordPress and plugins. 4 CommentsAlex King’s Articles Plugin for WordPress
Published by December 21st, 2006 in WordPress and drupal. 1 CommentIf you haven’t already, go check out Alex King’s post about the plugins he is employing for the redevelopment of his WordPress site. He has produced some unbelievably cool functionality for WordPress, and the community owes him much.
I took four plugins from the post referenced above:
the 404 Notifier (a feed for page [...]
Colonizing Social Sites: It’s Fun & It’s FREE!
Published by December 20th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 5 CommentsJim Spadacinni at Ideum recently posted on the potential of institutions -in this case museums- to colonize web 2.0 spaces (article link). He brings up a lot of excellent examples in his post. See his discussion of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s My Space profile and Ideum’s work-in-progress with the Maxwell [...]
Optimizing with Optimal -A Plugin for WordPress
Published by December 18th, 2006 in WordPress. 8 CommentsI have been playing pretty intently with WordPress these days in an attempt to develop out a UMW Division of Teaching & Learning Technologies site that features our projects, aggregates our blog posts & del.iciou.us feeds, while also acting as a resource for faculty, students, and the whole world wide web. It has been a [...]
I was just reading Andy Rush’s blog, spending some quality time admiring his new “My YouTube Favorites” sidebar widget -very nice!, when I came cross a veritable gem! He is always good for an entertaining video, but the one I clicked on today was a lot more than that. YOUTUBERS, despite the melodramatic [...]
A Social Revolution: The Web 2.0 Poster
Published by December 16th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 2 CommentsRoss Mayfield’s “revolucion” poster puts a very specific context of the social back into Social Networking!
“Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people,”
Ross Mayfield – WEb 2.0 Conference.
via Christian Contini
Mikhail Gershovich over at cacophony just pointed to a great video on YouTube that features a clip from a 1980s sitcom called Grammar Mechanic. If I am remembering correctly, it was sandwiched between The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes which, as the video below confirms, was a grossly underrated period of fine television. [...]
There has been some speculation as to my uncanny resemblance to Gordon Freeman -a video game superhero with a Ph.D. in Physics. I hope the pictures below will finally put the question as to whether I am or am not this “so-called last freeman” to rest once and for all.
As you can plainly [...]
BDP RSS: A WordPress Aggregator that Works
Published by December 15th, 2006 in WordPress. 12 CommentsThis semester has raised some questions that have led me to start searching for a better rss aggregation tool for WordPress. And, as is often the case in the WordPress community, I think I have already found it! The background here is that this semester we here at DTLT have begun encouraging students in [...]
The CUNY IT Conference: I am glad to see the conversation continues
Published by December 11th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 1 CommentLuke Waltzer, of cac.ophony fame, has done a nice job blogging some of the highlights from the CUNY IT conference on December 1st. One post in particular about the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program has led to a very interesting conversation that examines the assumptions surrounding fully-asynchronous vs. face-to-face classes (I hate the terms fully-asynchronous [...]
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