Jon Udell has mentioned the idea of Syndication-Oriented Architecture a couple of times over the the last year of so. One of the things I’ve been trying to spell outabout UMW Blog is how it in many ways is trying to approximate a Syndication-Oriented Architechture using a very hodgepodge collection of plugins and widgets.
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Syndication-Oriented Architecture, or a Feed Frenzied Framework!
Published by October 2nd, 2008 in Uncategorized and insructional technology. 3 CommentsReading Capital, Part 3: Forums vs. Discourse
Published by July 11th, 2008 in Reading Capital and prologue. 0 CommentsWorld Forum 1 image courtesy of Dunechaser.
This part of the Reading Capital discussion framework looks at the Reading Capital Forums (powered by bbPress) and a feature called Discourse which is the theme Prologue for WordPress blogs that offers a similar functionality as Twitter without the 140 character limitation. Despite what the title of this [...]
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 [...]
This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 3
Published by May 10th, 2008 in e-portfolios and eduglu. 3 CommentsSo, to pick up on parts 1 and 2, part 3 is an examination of some of the uses and possibilities of feed-driven architecture for dealing with the varying ways we might understand a portfolio, which—as Stephen Downes notes here—is in the midst of a pretty significant transformation. A change premised on re-imagining the portfolio [...]
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 [...]
One Blog, Many Feeds
Published by December 6th, 2007 in WordPress, plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsCole Camplese has had some excellent posts recently thinking about the ability of RSS feeds to connect a campus publishing community. I have been doing a lot of experimentation in this area over the last year or so, and his posts here and here are really useful examinations of what might be possible as [...]
Customize the WPMu Dashboard
Published by November 10th, 2007 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsHere’s a simple hack to make your WordPress Multi-User Dashboard display news and recent posts from within your specific WPMu community. For example, I am going to briefly illustrate how to display the “Latest News” for our community (traditionally where the WordPress development news appears) as well as the 20 most recent posts from around [...]
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