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 CommentsEdTech Survivalist: Episode 1
Published by September 23rd, 2008 in edtech survivalist and edupunk. 9 Comments“Fishing with Tom”
In our first episode we were ever so lucky to catch up with Dixie’s most impressive edtech survivalist Tom “Catfish” Woodward. We tunneled all the way down to the swamps of Slocum, Alabama to find him, and we were duly rewarded with some invaluable gems about trotlining RSS to feed the entire family [...]
Course blogs, Sitewide Tags, and FeedWordPress
Published by August 26th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 16 CommentsOK, I’m officially in full blown UMW Blogs blogging mode, I will most likely prove insufferable for the next month or so, and that’s just the way it is, suckas!
Today I actually gave my first advanced training session on WordPress to a group of five faculty. And I have to say it was a [...]
Discussing a Syndicated Lab Notebook
Published by July 11th, 2008 in insructional technology. 0 CommentsAt this year’s EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional conference UMW Biology professor Steve Gallik and I presented together on his Online Laboratory Manual project. I blogged this project last Fall, and it has exceeded just about every expectation we had set out for it —which were pretty high to start with. In short, Lablogs was the perfect [...]
Reading 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 [...]
Reading Capital, Part 2: Blogs, Feeds, and Aggregation
Published by July 10th, 2008 in Reading Capital. 1 CommentMarx and Engels lego photo used courtesy of Dunechaser
So I’m finally returning to creating a discussion framework for the Reading Capital site. I will detail my thinking for the design of the site below (and in at least two subsequent posts), and I invite any and all recommendations and criticisms. It’s a model that is [...]
Reading Capital, Part 1
Published by June 24th, 2008 in Reading Capital and Uncategorized. 5 CommentsThe D.I.Y. Lego Karl Marx (Image courtesy of Dunechaser)
So while I am waiting for my very own copy of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 to arrive in the mail, I figured I ‘d get to work (in the spirit of Frank Sobotka) on some ideas I have been playing around with for a while now. [...]
Today I got to thinking about something while talking about building a community site: where is my community right now? Well, Twitter, and at this very moment I can see all kinds of cool things happening. I’m currently following two of my favorite people, Shannon Hauser and Brian Lamb, exchange ideas about music. [...]
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 [...]
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