Shawn Miller from Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology re-published my post “The UMW Blogs Story” that chronicles the work we have been doing over the last several years at the University of Mary Washington. I am pretty excited that the approach of UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies is providing others with fodder for [...]
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Publishing Platforms and Cross-Campus Cultivation
Published by October 1st, 2008 in Uncategorized. 6 CommentsThe UMW Blogs Story
Published by September 26th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsThe following questions come from an email conversation Shawn Miller and I had about the genesis and guiding logic of UMW Blogs. Shawn is a member of Duke University’s Center for Instructional Technology, and the group is interested in hearing more about the ways we are using blogs here at Mary Washington. If all [...]
Serena Epstein produced a magical mashup re-contextualizing The Little Mermaid by setting it to the soundtrack of the Risky Business trailer for professor Anand Rao’s Visual Rhetoric course. Behold the magic of this brilliant mashup; Ariel is framed in a whole new light!
I <3 Consumerism
Published by August 31st, 2008 in Internet Archive and insructional technology. 1 CommentWPMu “3-in-1″ Widget: Tags, Recent Posts, and Archives
Published by August 18th, 2008 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 5 CommentsI already mentioned that Donncha’s Sitewide Tags plugin was going to make a whole lot of things much, much easier. Well, DSader wrapped all the awesomeness into one bitchin’ plugin for WPMu: Sitewide “three-in-one” Multi Widget Panel. I discovered it through James Farmer’s WPMU.org (already proving an invaluable resource) and I just had to test [...]
WPMu Sitewide Tags, Feeds, & Archives! Oh, My!
Published by July 23rd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 9 CommentsSo….so so so so so so, it’s time for a little walk down WPMu history lane. Last year at this time I was desperately scrambling for a way to have sitewide tags for UMW Blogs. I found the solution in Dr. Mike’s hack shared on the WordPress forums here, but it was kind of 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 [...]









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