Tag Archives: aggregation

EdTech Survivalist: Episode 1

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Reverend

“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 … Continue reading →

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Reading Capital, Part 2: Blogs, Feeds, and Aggregation

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Reverend

Marx 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 … Continue reading →

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Self-Service Feed Aggregation with WPMu

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Reverend

This post will detail how to create an aggregator site wherein people can simply add their feeds to a site and have their content automatically re-published. This example is specifically for WordPress and/or WordPress Multi-User. It depends upon three plugins, … Continue reading →

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Finally, Course Aggregation Made Easy

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Reverend

photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar Well, it took us over a year, and with several iterations along the way, but I think UMW Blogs will now be able to provide dead simple aggregation of posts from numerous, distributed blogs with … Continue reading →

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This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 1

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Reverend

It’s been over a year now since my full-fledged burn, baby, burn conversation with Gardner Campbell about WordPress Multi-User, ELS Blogs, the Digital Five Ring Binder, and the underpinnings of re-imagining an online distributed space for teaching and learning that … Continue reading →

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Educational Blog Aggregation that Scales

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Reverend

I just commented over at William & Mary Blogs (wmblogs.net), and I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am that William & Mary is not only playing around with WordPress Multi-User and kicking around the questions surrounding aggregation, … Continue reading →

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Thank you sir, may I have another RSS feed!

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Reverend

I think the sir in this title should really be Andre Malan who recently created the Add to BDP RSS, his first plugin for WordPress. It provides functionality I have dreamed of for over a year now. In short, it … Continue reading →

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Talking, sharing & being taught WPMu @ NV 2008

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Reverend

Photo used thanks to Sonson’s intellectual generosity. The original title for this post was: “Just one more NV post, memory bartender” The Northern Voice 2008 posts have been streaming in regularly, and I can’t add much to their overall reflections … Continue reading →

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RSS Feed Generator for Academic Journals

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Reverend

Robert K. Nelson has created a very cool RSS Feed Generator for either articles or reviews for journals available through Project Muse and History Cooperative. His project takes its inspiration from William Turkel’s “How to: See the Field at a … Continue reading →

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UMW Lablogs: Aggregating Online Laboratory Experiments

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Reverend

One of the biggest experiments happening currently on UMW Blogs is Steve Gallik’s Cell Biology Lablogs. Steve is a pretty amazing guy, he has built out an entire suite of online laboratory resources wherein students can record the results of … Continue reading →

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