This Thursday I’ll be heading down to Longwood University to do a workshop on Web 2.0, blogging, and the like. Liz Kocevar-Weidinger of the Greenwood library at Longwood saw a few of us from UMW present last year on the work we’ve doing, and she invited us down. I caught up with her at the [...]
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Cloning the UMW Blogs Empire
Published by November 17th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 10 CommentsInstalling WPMu on cheap, external webhosting
Published by November 5th, 2008 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 0 CommentsJames farmer has posted a great tutorial over at WPMu.org that takes you through the steps of setting up a WordPress Multi-User installation on a cheap, external webhosting service. He focuses on one webhosting service in particular for the demonstration, but most use CPanel and his instructions work pretty much across the board. That [...]
Clubs and Organizations on UMW Blogs
Published by October 29th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 1 CommentOne of the most interesting elements of UMW Blogs is the way in which things kinda happen on their own accord, and the publishing environment takes on a life of its own. For example, I track a lot of the posts and comments that go through the system, and what I have begun to recognize [...]
Out of Print: Building a Digital Environment for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship
Published by October 24th, 2008 in WordPress, insructional technology, open education, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 1 CommentD’Arcy Norman and I co-presented at the Open Education Conference last year, and I recently had the opportunity to re-watch our talk thanks to the good folks at COSL that both recorded the sessions and put them up on Google video.
The presentation was an important one for me in retrospect, because of its pure and [...]
Embed RSS Plugin for WordPress
Published by October 21st, 2008 in Uncategorized, WordPress, rss, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 5 CommentsThis is a re-blog of Mario Núñez-Molina’s post that points to a plugin called cets_EmbedRSS that allows you to embed an RSS feed into a post or page in WordPress (and WPMu) easily (and easily is the key here because the aggr plugin does something like this already). It puts an RSS icon in the [...]
No longer banned from DC: WordCamp Ed 2008
Published by October 18th, 2008 in WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsWell, after some grovelling to my special lady friend and some unveiled threats from the Bionic Teacher, I decided it might be in the interest of my personal health to attend WordCamp Ed DC, which David Lester has brilliantly conceived and organized (kudos). Such an event holds some powerful possibilities for the educational community using [...]
Syndicate, syndicate, syndicate the semester away
Published by October 11th, 2008 in plugins, rss, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 2 Comments photo credit: Criterion
For the first part of this semester I was in over my head with UMW Blogs. We had come up with the idea (through covert communication with other schools not to be named ) to use FeedWordPress as a syndicating engine. Quite simply, that students create their own blogs and tag [...]
The UMW Blogs Story
Published by September 26th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsThe 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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