D’Arcy Norman, Chris Lott, Sylvia Currie, and Jon Beasley-Murray combined forces examining a wide array of issues facing the integration of social software into the learning environment. At the core of these various discussions was the enigma of community -what makes an effective online community? How do we foster the process of allowing these spaces [...]
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Social Software for Learning Environments
Published by February 24th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 2 CommentsNotes Towards an Open Source University
Published by February 12th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 4 CommentsJerry over at Running with Scissors posted our ELI 2007 talk “Notes Towards an Open (Source) University” here. If nothing else, it may be an interesting case study of the orations of a lunatic versus those of a well-grounded, articulate instructional technology specialist.
WPMU Hacks for BDP RSS, Optimal, & YouTube
Published by February 12th, 2007 in WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 9 CommentsIn my previous post I failed to detail how I hacked WPMU in order to include BDP RSS & Optimal in a static page and embed YouTube videos in posts. Sorry for this oversight, below you will find the play-by-play (soon to be ported over to bavawiki).
Integrating BDP RSS & Optimal into a WP [...]
WordPress 2.1 and K2 version 0.95 are on the shelves. In WordPress 2.1 I really like the fact that comments has its own tab and you can batch delete links, finally! My favorite, however, is the following feature for it reinforces the fact that the folks at WordPress understand their application as a CMS, [...]
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 [...]
The semester is coming, so here’s a little something to keep you going…
Including a Custom Header Image in K2:
To include a custom header in K2 you have two options. You can use the custom header tool in the tabs Presentation –> Custom Header or you can modify the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Modifying [...]
The WordPress Plugins in My Life
Published by December 29th, 2006 in WordPress and plugins. 4 CommentsSeems like the Cog Dog and teachinghacks.com having been doing a little sharing about their WordPress plugins, which I find extremely useful -so thanks. I have been talking a bit lately about some of the plugins I have recently discovered here, here, and here -but the following list is a quick and dirty [...]
Alex King’s Articles Plugin for WordPress
Published by December 21st, 2006 in WordPress and drupal. 1 CommentIf you haven’t already, go check out Alex King’s post about the plugins he is employing for the redevelopment of his WordPress site. He has produced some unbelievably cool functionality for WordPress, and the community owes him much.
I took four plugins from the post referenced above:
the 404 Notifier (a feed for page [...]
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 [...]
The CUNY IT Conference: I am glad to see the conversation continues
Published by December 11th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 1 CommentLuke Waltzer, of cac.ophony fame, has done a nice job blogging some of the highlights from the CUNY IT conference on December 1st. One post in particular about the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program has led to a very interesting conversation that examines the assumptions surrounding fully-asynchronous vs. face-to-face classes (I hate the terms fully-asynchronous [...]
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