Author Archives: Reverend

Rockin’ in the Free World

Posted on February 24, 2008 by Reverend

There’s colors on the street Red, white and blue People shufflin’ their feet People sleepin’ in their shoes But there’s a warnin’ sign on the road ahead There’s a lot of people sayin’ we’d be better off dead Don’t feel … Continue reading →

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Northern Voice 2008

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Reverend

The Moosecamp is here, and things are getting exciting quick. The sessions are up on the wiki, and as soon as the first session started Jen Jones (Injenuity) started Ustreaming it. Genius, what a cool way to get the message … Continue reading →

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UR Web 2.0?

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Reverend

When I have attended talks or conference presentations about Web 2.0, I seem to inevitably hear the question: “Is this presentation Web 2.0?” Which is often a legitimate question for newcomers who don’t really get the logic of Web 2.0 … Continue reading →

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Some more cool plugins for WordPress

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Reverend

I have gotten wind of a couple of cool plugins for WordPress that might be worthy of sharing. WP AJax Edit Comments The first I found by way of Alex King’s del.icio.us link to this post, which features five must … Continue reading →

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Is that OpenEd in my dashboard?

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Reverend

Don’t look now, for there just might be some news about WP.com and Open Education in your WordPress dashboard! Seems like the word is getting around about using WordPress for Open Education (thank you, Stephen). What’s even better than Mark … Continue reading →

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Proud Spammer of Open University Courses

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Reverend

There has been a bit of excitement about the possibilities for pushing the uses of RSS towards a mythical eduglu as of late. Brian posted about it here and got some great feedback, soon after D’Arcy Norman and Bill Fitzgerald … Continue reading →

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WordPress.com as OpenCourseWare

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Reverend

David Wiley’s post about using WordPress.com as OpenCourseWare to republish a course of his has me excited. The site looks pretty damn sharp. Very clean and easy to scan, an excellent model for using these tools to create attractive, low-overhead … Continue reading →

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“Let’s Do Some Crimes” in Second Life

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Reverend

I have very little patience with Second Life. As I tweeted a few days ago, I find it conceptually rich and empirically vapid. And for the most part that hasn’t changed all that much over the last year and a … Continue reading →

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WordPress as CMS

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Reverend

Ok, so in addition to the Moosecamp session “WordPress Anonymous” on Friday (depending on interest) and the “Don’t Call it a Blog, call it an Educational Publishing Platform” on Saturday, Lloyd Budd recently facebooked me asking if I would “lead” … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to WPMu 1.3.3

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Reverend

Given that the most recent upgrade for WordPress Multi-User is a critical one, I decided to do the right thing this morning. I figured it might be useful for others to know that my personal version of WPMu (which has … Continue reading →

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