WP-O-Matic is a nice little third-party plugin for WordPress that uses the SimplePie php class (thanks to Patrick and Andy for the link to this amazing set of aggregation resources for both WP and MediaWiki) to grab an RSS feed and automatically use it to create posts in your blog. The interface is “dead simple” [...]
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bavawiki (a MediaWiki install) gets the occasional spam. Here is one I got recently that made me laugh:
Hi Boss,
People who do lots of work…
make lots of mistakes
People who do less work…
make less mistakes
People who do no work…
make no mistakes
People who make no mistakes…
gets promoted
That’s why I spend most of [...]
This is the first of a series of posts through which I will attempt to catch up on ELI 2007.
Mark Felix (Instructional Applications Support, The University of Arizona), Alan Foley (Learning Technology Liaison, University of Wisconsin System Administration) and Ken Petri (Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center, The Ohio State University) gave a [...]
Optimizing with Optimal -A Plugin for WordPress
Published by December 18th, 2006 in WordPress. 8 CommentsI have been playing pretty intently with WordPress these days in an attempt to develop out a UMW Division of Teaching & Learning Technologies site that features our projects, aggregates our blog posts & del.iciou.us feeds, while also acting as a resource for faculty, students, and the whole world wide web. It has been a [...]
Doing things with English 101, or Virtual Learning Spaces in Action!
Published by November 3rd, 2006 in WordPress. 12 CommentsSteve Greenlaw, of Pedablogy fame, noted a while back that the posts on bavatuesdays have been more like reading cuneiform on a tablet (notice the equation of ancient communication with the tablet) than a resource for teaching and learning. To rectify such egregious neglect of the tireless minds that animate the tools, I [...]
Single Sign-on for Third Party Applications with Typo3
Published by September 24th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 1 CommentWell, I have been meaning to do it for a while now, but looks like now I have no other choice: its time to re-visit Typo3. I have become pretty familiar with this CMS over the last 6-8 months and I worked on a museum site using Typo3 ver 3.8 - but I think [...]
Jerry and I have been discussing how useful a centralized wiki would be for collaboratively tracking and editing documentation for web 2.0 applications we have been using frequently over the last couple of weeks. To that end I am introducing bavawiki as a repository for tutorials I have been working on as of late, I’ll [...]












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