(Jan) Philipp Schmidt of Peer 2 Peer University has organized an open course (along with Mozilla and ccLearn) focused on designing the “open educational platform of the future.” It’s a great idea for a course (especially a free one!), and I was pretty excited when he asked UMW (by way of David Wiley-thanks David!) to [...]
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Mozilla Open Education course
Published by March 21st, 2009 in UMW Blogs, digital identity, e-portfolios, eduglu, insructional technology, open education, open source, philosophy, plugins, rss, tags, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 8 CommentsFinally, Course Aggregation Made Easy
Published by May 16th, 2008 in insructional technology, plugins, tags, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 Comments photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar
Well, it took us over a year, and with several iterations along the way, but I think UMW Blogs will now be able to provide dead simple aggregation of posts from numerous, distributed blogs with very little work, but a little bit of money for the plugin extension ($50 to [...]
Simple Tags Plugin for WordPress
Published by April 10th, 2008 in WordPress, plugins, rss, tags and wpmu. 15 CommentsIf you haven’t tried out the Simple Tags plugin yet, I promise you it will never be too soon. This plugin is extremely powerful, and strikes me more as a full blown application within WP than a simple extension of WordPress. I haven’t even begun to play with all the features it offers, but here [...]
RSS Feed for Tags in YouTube
Published by January 19th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, YouTube, tags and video. 2 CommentsHere is a cool thing I discovered recently, and please forgive me if it is already common knowledge. There is a little hack for getting RSS feeds for tags on YouTube, and it goes like this:
http://youtube.com/rss/tag/randomtag.rss (where randomtag is the tag you want to aggregate)
Here are two examples of this tag-based feed. Andy Rush [...]
Doing Things with Tags in WPMu 1.3
Published by January 14th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, plugins, tags, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 0 CommentsI discovered two cool things today that have to do with WPMu and tags.
First, that WPMu 1.3 (and WP 2.3 for that matter) comes with a stock widget for a tag cloud that doesn’t require a plugin or anything. How did I discover this? Well, UMW History professor Sue Fernsebner had it in [...]
WPMu: Sitewide Tags, Search, and Archive
Published by November 4th, 2007 in UMW Blogs and tags. 7 CommentsSitewide tags is a feature of UMW Blogs I spent a bit of time working on this past Summer. In fact, one particular workaround allows you to have a sitewide tag cloud as well as sitewide searching of blog posts and a dynamic archive of posts–all without any hacks to the core files of your [...]
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