Luke Waltzer over at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY just turned me on to an awesome use of a WordPress blog in a course. Professor Zoë Sheehan Saldaña of the Fine and Performing Arts Department has her students sharing the resources they find online by way of a class blog. More than that, each student designed an animated, flash-based header for the blog as an assignment, so the actual class blog is now also a dynamic portfolio of the work the students are doing. What an awesome intersection of uses of this online space: sharing resources, publishing platform, collaborating on projects, and a class art gallery.
Click on the image above to be taken to the class blog, and click the refresh button to view the 20 flash-based headers designed by the students in the class.
Replace the code in rotating_images.php with this.
FTR, this is Zoe’s code. I’m just glad to be supporting a faculty member intrepid enough to try this. Also, the movies now playing are placeholders; her students are working on more ornate/polished swfs for later on in the term.
Glad to be of service, especially given how good your blog has been to all of us these days