The 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 [...]
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The UMW Blogs Story
Published by September 26th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsTwo weeks into the semester and UMW Blogs is a non-stop post party.
And while I get excited about the activity and the overall usage, it’s often the tidbits that get me going. Like Fumanchu’s random video post about the Triadic Ballet from the 80s.
UMW Blogs is about a different kind of teaching and [...]
Today it really hit me that UMW Blogs is back and roaring. I rolled through the jungle filled with RSS and picked lovingly from the fruit of connected people thinking about wild stuff. And I knew it for sure when I read Jesse Kopp’s first blog post of the semester:
From the makers of last [...]
Speech, YouTube, and WordPress
Published by August 24th, 2008 in YouTube and insructional technology. 0 CommentsLast semester, Professor John Morello’s “Communication and Political Campaigns” class did something interesting with UMW Blogs. Rather than thinking of the class blog as a semester long activity for writing and reflecting (which is always good), he used it for one specific assignment. The blog provided a space where students could upload, categorize, and receive [...]
Virgil, Blabberize, and 50 Ways to Applaud CogDog
Published by August 24th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, digital storytelling and insructional technology. 1 CommentThis Summer I had the good fortune of working with professor Angela Gosetti-MurrayJohn and the students of her “The Classical Tradition” course. I would like to say I came up with some original and elaborate EdTech scheme to change the world through mediated mean, but I didn’t. However, Angela did by pushing her class [...]
WPMu Domain Mapping Plugin on CPanel
Published by August 14th, 2008 in plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 5 CommentsWell, I have written a bunch about domain mapping on WPMu over the last year or so. Up and until tonight I have been using Richard Bui’s tutorial here along with David Dean’s Multi-Site Manager Plugin. The combination of the two have worked great for me thus far, and I liked that with this combination [...]
UMW Blogs support videos for WPMu 2.6
Published by August 8th, 2008 in WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsThe inimitable Andy Rush (a.k.a. EduRush) and I have been working diligently to create a whole slew of screencasts documenting the new interface for WPMu 2.6. We’ve finished a whole bunch of them over the last week or so and published them on the now official UMW Blogs Screencasts site, so below is a list [...]
The Many Languages of UMW Blogs
Published by August 2nd, 2008 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 5 CommentsRecently I have been working with a French professor who had been playing around in Blogger, and was thinking abut using a blog in his class. I got to see some of the finer features in Blogger, and I really liked the fact that this professor could choose the default language for administrative backend and [...]
I tweaked the documentation for UMW Blogs to reflect the administrative back end changes for WPMu 2.5 & 2.6. I figured this may be helpful to some folks that are using this application and might need some screen shots, quick documentation, etc. It’s all Creative Commons, so no need to ask, just pilfer and pillage [...]
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