I was looking at the posts on WPMu Development for Education earlier this morning, and I came across this post from The College of Wooster’s (or should I saw WOOT!ster’s) WPMu/BuddyPress install Voices. The post was about new themes added to their system, something I am always interested in, but it also gave me the [...]
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BuddyPress Groups as Courses at the College of Wooster
Published by February 13th, 2010 in BuddyPress, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsGeorge Meadows from the Education department here at UMW just turned Martha and I on to MapLib. It’s a tool that basically allows you to add web-based images to the site and lay the Google Maps interface on top of the image so that you can add markers to a customized map. More than that, [...]
5 Reasons I don’t like ITunesU
Published by November 21st, 2009 in insructional technology. 13 CommentsLooks like UMW is getting ITunesU. And while I’ve had nothing to do with the decision process, and I really don’t think it is going to make any significant difference in our environment, I would like to lay out a few quick reasons why I think this is a bad (or would irrelevant be [...]
The Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories or, a chat with Brian Lamb
Published by November 3rd, 2009 in insructional technology. 4 CommentsBarry Dahl recently blogged the following video he took at the WCET of Brian Lamb chatting about Learning Object Repositories, which provides an excellent overview of the logic of EdTech circa 2001. The idea of educational repositories for content as a shared resource was, and remains, a powerful idea for sharing resources, yet the means [...]
The Future of WPMu
Published by October 10th, 2009 in UMW Blogs, WordPress, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 7 CommentsThere has been a lot of discussion about the future of WPMu with the coming merge of WPMu and WP, and I understand there are concerns and issues all around. I’m not in the business of selling WPMu, so my concerns aren’t so much caught up with the preservation of the WPMu name, but they [...]
BlackBoard: Innovate, Educate, Litigate
Published by October 8th, 2009 in insructional technology. 9 CommentsOne thing that has stuck with me in my quest to bury BlackBoard over the last four years has been just how shamelessly BlackBoard’s PR message is so hypocritical when looked against their baseless legal aggression against their competitors. I think far too many organizations and institutions have given them far too much leeway, and [...]
I’m not always so good at sharing my presentation materials because a lot of what I do is improvised at the moment. I rarely, if ever, have a prepared talk about a specific topic, but develop a conceit around which to frame some ideas I have been thinking about.
For the West Virginia Higher Education Technology [...]
What Would Tom Woodward do?
Published by September 25th, 2009 in insructional technology. 7 CommentsSo I have been preparing a post to discredit Tom Woodward because he is increasingly becoming everyone’s favorite technologist here at UMW’s DTLT, and quite frankly it’s driving me crazy. It’s always Tom Woodward this, and Tom Woodward that. Or even “What Would Tom Woodward Do?” It’s not fair, I mean I’m the bava, [...]
Just another hole-in-the-wall
Published by September 19th, 2009 in insructional technology, presentations, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsImage credit: omphale44’s “Puerto Rico- Old San Juan Fortress Wall”
I’m on the plane back from three days in beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico, and I figured I’d try and capture it before it slips away—something which unfortunately happened with OpenEd 09. As I already noted here, I was invited down to San Juan by Antonio [...]
Image credit: L’Hibou’s “Le Wal-Mart de la rue Karl-Marx”
While talking with my neighbor Kent Ippolito a few weeks ago, the conversation somehow found its way to a fascinating fact I had never heard before, namely that Wal-Mart has for decades had a policy that allows RVers of all types to stay in their parking lot [...]
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