Photo thanks to Bern@t’s Flickr stream.
Cole Camplese recently had a provocative post about open design that has me thinking about a few things that might frame some of the ideas that I think are key to imagining a loosely joined, open, and mashable community for teaching and learning.
I am thinking more about how openness should [...]
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The Design of Openness
Published by June 7th, 2008 in Uncategorized, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 2 CommentsIt’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 [...]
Don’t Call it A Blog!
Published by March 29th, 2008 in accs, northernvoice, nv08, nv2008 and presentations. 1 CommentOver the last month I was a proud member of two different presentations with the same title, “Don’t call it a Blog, Call it an Educational Publishing Platform.” The whole idea behind these presentations was to highlight the immense possibilities open source web publishing tools like WordPress Multi-User and Drupal afford educational institutions for [...]
Gladly Eating Some Drupal Crow
Published by November 24th, 2007 in drupal, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 14 CommentsBill Fitzgerald has posted about a most impressive aggregator he put together with Drupal in about six hours. He documents the modules he used, and his creation slices and dices the content from various feeds in some really impressive ways.
This may very well be the beginnings of a more sophisticated tag cloud, directory, searchable [...]
UMW Blogs & Middlesell Sittin’ In a Tree…
Published by November 22nd, 2007 in UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 Comments…R-S-S-I-N-G.
I happened upon Middlesell early this morning (this site is an independent homepage for UMW students established by the inimitable Bobby Durette) only to discover that posts from around UMW Blogs are being fed into this space. How fascinating!
Now it really shouldn’t come as a surprise to me, for Bobby is a remarkable guy [...]
From Alex Ragone’s post Not Drupal, WordPress MU (emphasis mine):
So a few weeks ago I blogged about the Drupal installation I was going to create. I had a plan and began to implement it. I had installed Drupal in a Multi-Site configuration but as I worked on the server, I realized that it was too [...]
WordPress: power and simplicity
Published by May 4th, 2007 in WordPress, drupal, plugins and wordpress multi-user. 9 CommentsSubtitle: Are we ready to take WordPress as a CMS seriously yet?
This is a post that was inspired by both a question on OLDaily as well as a post about Drupal documentation on Half an Hour. I originally threw out a flippant response to the “Joomla or Drupal?” question in regards to open source content [...]
Getting My Moose On: Blogs as a Web Publishing Framework
Published by February 18th, 2007 in WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 10 CommentsOK, so I am gonna have to earn my keep during my stay up North, for the folks of Northern Voice have been nothing but golden thus far. In particular, I want to give a gigantic shout out to Brian Lamb- who has bent over backwards to make sure that everything runs smoothly during my [...]








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