Luke Waltzer over at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY just turned me on to an awesome use of a WordPress blog in a course. Professor Zoë Sheehan Saldaña of the Fine and Performing Arts Department has her students sharing the resources they find online by way of a class blog. [...]
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Art class using WP header as dynamic gallery
Published by March 4th, 2008 in WordPress and art. 5 CommentsPlaying with SimplePie for WordPress
Published by April 14th, 2007 in WordPress, YouTube and plugins. 3 CommentsI’m gonna stick to playing with SimplePie and WordPress and let Andy Rush (the new MediaWiki celebrity) and Patrick Gosetti Murray-John (the old-gold Drupal fan-boy) do their thing. I can officially announce that the SimplePie RSS parser runs fine on Bluehost. Take a look at the demo installation on my bluehost account here. [...]
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” [...]
I recently discovered an open source project management tool, activeCollab, from Brian Lamb’s del.icio.us feed. As usual, when I follow a breadcrumb at Abject Learning I am not disappointed.
UMW’s Department of Information technology has been using Basecamp sporadically for a little while now, and DTLT has been using it lately to manage the Student [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WordPress as a Library Catalog? Who knew???
Published by December 7th, 2006 in WordPress. 3 CommentsCasey Bisson from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire has quite an interesting project he will be working on shortly, namely marrying the Library of Congress Catalog to WordPress! He plans on developing out WP-OPAC, or an online catalog for libraries using WordPress. He was recently awarded a Mellon Foundation grant, and I imagine [...]
wp2drupal: might I be jumping ship?
Published by December 6th, 2006 in WordPress and drupal. 3 CommentsI am not sure if I am going to make the jump from WordPress to Drupal with bavatuesdays just yet, but I have been following Darcy Norman’s progress with Drupal quite closely over the past six months, and I am pretty sure I should be playing more seriously with Drupal these days. I have [...]
The Powerhouse Museum: the Name Says it All
Published by November 16th, 2006 in WordPress. 5 CommentsThe New Web seminar at UVIC hosted another fascinating discussion today about integrating web 2.0 tools into the museum landscape with Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum (see this post for the highlights of our discussion with Kevin von Appen about the Ontario Science Center’s RedShift Now). The Powerhouse Museum is a Science [...]
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