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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 [...]
Tags for this article: blogging , open source
[?]If 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 [...]
Tags for this article: blogging , Hacking a Virtual Learning Space , open source , PHP
[?]Jim 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 [...]
Tags for this article: Flickr , general , instructional technology , museums 2.0 , web 2.0
[?]I 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 [...]
Tags for this article: blogging , Hacking a Virtual Learning Space , instructional technology , mediawiki , open source , PHP , rss , web 2.0
[?]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 [...]
Tags for this article: blogging , general , video podcasting , web 2.0
[?]Ross 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
Tags for this article: Flickr , general , web 2.0
[?]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. 
Great [...]
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[?]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 [...]
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[?]This 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 [...]
Tags for this article: blogging , Hacking a Virtual Learning Space , instructional technology , rss , web 2.0
[?]Luke 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 [...]
Tags for this article: blogging , Hacking a Virtual Learning Space , instructional technology , open source , web 2.0
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