The following questions come from an email conversation Shawn Miller and I had about the genesis and guiding logic of UMW Blogs. Shawn is a member of Duke University’s Center for Instructional Technology, and the group is interested in hearing more about the ways we are using blogs here at Mary Washington. If all [...]
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The UMW Blogs Story
Published by September 26th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsToday it really hit me that UMW Blogs is back and roaring. I rolled through the jungle filled with RSS and picked lovingly from the fruit of connected people thinking about wild stuff. And I knew it for sure when I read Jesse Kopp’s first blog post of the semester:
From the makers of last [...]
Course blogs, Sitewide Tags, and FeedWordPress
Published by August 26th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 16 CommentsOK, I’m officially in full blown UMW Blogs blogging mode, I will most likely prove insufferable for the next month or so, and that’s just the way it is, suckas!
Today I actually gave my first advanced training session on WordPress to a group of five faculty. And I have to say it was a [...]
Virgil, Blabberize, and 50 Ways to Applaud CogDog
Published by August 24th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, digital storytelling and insructional technology. 1 CommentThis Summer I had the good fortune of working with professor Angela Gosetti-MurrayJohn and the students of her “The Classical Tradition” course. I would like to say I came up with some original and elaborate EdTech scheme to change the world through mediated mean, but I didn’t. However, Angela did by pushing her class [...]
I tweaked the documentation for UMW Blogs to reflect the administrative back end changes for WPMu 2.5 & 2.6. I figured this may be helpful to some folks that are using this application and might need some screen shots, quick documentation, etc. It’s all Creative Commons, so no need to ask, just pilfer and pillage [...]
WPMu Sitewide Tags, Feeds, & Archives! Oh, My!
Published by July 23rd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 9 CommentsSo….so so so so so so, it’s time for a little walk down WPMu history lane. Last year at this time I was desperately scrambling for a way to have sitewide tags for UMW Blogs. I found the solution in Dr. Mike’s hack shared on the WordPress forums here, but it was kind of a [...]
UMW Blogs: Over 1 Billion Characters Served
Published by July 3rd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, dtlt, fa08, faculty academy and umwfa08. 3 CommentsWell, UMW Blogs is now on a dedicated server after a year of shared hosting to run over a thousand blogs. We are quickly approaching the 1500 blogs mark, and the database is 1.1 gigs with over 11,000 tables. Seems that once it starts approaching 5 or 6 gigs it might be time to [...]
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