“Fishing with Tom”
In our first episode we were ever so lucky to catch up with Dixie’s most impressive edtech survivalist Tom “Catfish” Woodward. We tunneled all the way down to the swamps of Slocum, Alabama to find him, and we were duly rewarded with some invaluable gems about trotlining RSS to feed the entire family [...]
Tag Archive for 'aggregation'
EdTech Survivalist: Episode 1
Published by September 23rd, 2008 in edtech survivalist and edupunk. 9 CommentsReading Capital, Part 2: Blogs, Feeds, and Aggregation
Published by July 10th, 2008 in Reading Capital. 1 CommentMarx and Engels lego photo used courtesy of Dunechaser
So I’m finally returning to creating a discussion framework for the Reading Capital site. I will detail my thinking for the design of the site below (and in at least two subsequent posts), and I invite any and all recommendations and criticisms. It’s a model that is [...]
Finally, 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 [...]
It’s been over a year now since my full-fledged burn, baby, burn conversation with Gardner Campbell about WordPress Multi-User, ELS Blogs, the Digital Five Ring Binder, and the underpinnings of re-imagining an online distributed space for teaching and learning that both encompasses and moves beyond e-portfolios, capturing a whole range of activities both for [...]
Educational Blog Aggregation that Scales
Published by March 26th, 2008 in WordPress, insructional technology, open education, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 9 CommentsI just commented over at William & Mary Blogs (wmblogs.net), and I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am that William & Mary is not only playing around with WordPress Multi-User and kicking around the questions surrounding aggregation, but blogging it publicly! That takes it all to the next level. I should [...]
Thank you sir, may I have another RSS feed!
Published by March 8th, 2008 in WordPress, plugins and wpmu. 5 CommentsI think the sir in this title should really be Andre Malan who recently created the Add to BDP RSS, his first plugin for WordPress. It provides functionality I have dreamed of for over a year now. In short, it is a plugin that adds a sidebar widget to a site so that people [...]
Talking, sharing & being taught WPMu @ NV 2008
Published by February 26th, 2008 in WordPress, northernvoice, nv08, nv2008, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 2 CommentsPhoto used thanks to Sonson’s intellectual generosity.
The original title for this post was: “Just one more NV post, memory bartender”
The Northern Voice 2008 posts have been streaming in regularly, and I can’t add much to their overall reflections because they capture the power of this conference beautifully. That said, I have one more reflection [...]
RSS Feed Generator for Academic Journals
Published by January 27th, 2008 in insructional technology. 4 CommentsRobert K. Nelson has created a very cool RSS Feed Generator for either articles or reviews for journals available through Project Muse and History Cooperative. His project takes its inspiration from William Turkel’s “How to: See the Field at a Glance” which uses a scraper to extract tables of contents and other useful data from [...]
UMW Lablogs: Aggregating Online Laboratory Experiments
Published by September 6th, 2007 in wordpress multi-user. 0 CommentsOne of the biggest experiments happening currently on UMW Blogs is Steve Gallik’s Cell Biology Lablogs. Steve is a pretty amazing guy, he has built out an entire suite of online laboratory resources wherein students can record the results of their experiments in what he terms an Online Laboratory Suite. Well, if that’s not [...]
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