Tag Archives: wpmu

Twourse Design

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Reverend

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 … 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 3

Posted on May 10, 2008 by Reverend

So, 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 … Continue reading →

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This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 2

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Reverend

So, in an attempt to galvanize my mania to its most chaotically productive for Faculty Academy 2008, I’ll go on with this e-portfolio madness, as promised. However, the comments on part 1 are already making me wonder whether this post … 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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10 ways to use UMW Blogs

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Reverend

About two weeks ago I asked our kick ass student aids Joe and Shannon to start a wiki page outlining ten possible ways to use UMW Blogs. Soon after I went in and re-arranged, added, edited, etc. Last week DTLT’s … Continue reading →

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Viper’s Video Quicktags Plugin works with WPMu

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Reverend

I stopped using Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin a while back when I started playing in earnest with WPMu. Reason being is that this plugin didn’t really work well with WPMu last year at this time, and Anarchy Media Player was, … Continue reading →

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Simple Tags Plugin for WordPress

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Reverend

If you haven’t tried out the Simple Tags plugin yet, I promise you it will never be too soon. This plugin is extremely powerful, and strikes me more as a full blown application within WP than a simple extension of … Continue reading →

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Embedding iFrames on WPMu

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Reverend

While text encoding is proving hellacious for me with WPMu, embedding iframes has never been easier (keep in mind there are risks involved, so think before you drink!). I found a pretty cool plugin for WPMu (there is also one … Continue reading →

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Addendum to My WPMu Encoding Hell

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Reverend

So, my text encoding woes when moving a WP 2.3 single installation to WPMu 1.3.3 have not entirely disappeared, and this post is an important addendum to the original here. So, in short, after seeing stuff like this scattered through … Continue reading →

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