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Three New Plugins for Teaching with WordPress
Thanks to our great Macaulay ITF Michael Porter, there are three new plugins in the WordPress plugin repository which will be fantastic for anyone using WordPress as a platform for teaching (and in the case of the third of them, eportfolios!). Mike developed these specifically for needs we had discovered at Macaulay, but I think […]
Alkivia Chameleon Theme in WordPress 3.0 with Multi-Site
A very technical post–warning! I thought I would post this, in case anyone out there on the web runs into the same problem and might google up this solution. We make fairly extensive use of an excellent WordPress theme, Alkivia Chameleon. It’s a very handy and customizable theme, with a nice options page. The problem […]
Early iPad thoughts
So I’m writing this on Thursday, after receiving my iPad (no, I didn’t stand on line, I had it delivered!) on Saturday. That’s only about five days of use so far–but I do have some early indicators and ideas and reactions, and I thought I’d share them–especially because I just returned from a three-day trip […]
KB Gradebook
I’m going to be posting a “midterm reflection” about the Alternate Worlds class soon. But before that, I wanted to put up a post that (maybe) will be easy to find for people trying to use the KB Gradebook plugin that I mentioned in the earlier posts. This was looking like a very good way […]
Alternate Worlds Part 2: The Class Begins
Now that the dust has somewhat settled from the beginning of the semester, I thought I’d give a first update on my “Open LMS” experiment (introduced in an earlier post). The course is open (today is the fourth day of the semester, so it’s just beginning to get rolling), the students are in and active, […]
BuddyPress and WPMU Upgrade for Macaulay
Inspired by Boone’s generous help and guidance in describing how the BuddyPress install here at the Commons went from 1.0 to 1.1, I wanted to describe how I took the Macaulay install from 1.0 to 1.3. There were some hiccups and difficulties, and maybe others can benefit from reading the steps. Since I had tried […]
Alternate Worlds: Teaching with an “Open LMS”
At Macaulay, we’re using BuddyPress and WPMU (two-thirds of the same platform in use here on the Commons) for our student eportfolios–very broadly defined. My vision of the system when it first started up last year was that these would be just individual eportfolios, pretty traditional. But because the system is so open and flexible, […]
Macaulay Eportfolios Plugin List
One of our Instructional Technology Fellows asked for this list, so instead of just letting it sit in my sent email box, I thought I’d put it out for others to see. These are plugins we’re using on our Macaulay Eportfolios WPMU install. It’s a snapshot, really, with some that I haven’t been able to […]
Macaulay Social Network Moving Along
With the recent announcement (finally!) of the release of BuddyPress 1.o, I took the opportunity to upgrade the Macaulay Social Network site, and give it a light touch of redesign. (Also partly inspired by the great work with BuddyPress right here at the Academic Commons, I must admit!). We had a very successful period of […]
The Producers
We gave all our incoming freshmen Flip Cams this past fall. These are very small digital camcorders. They are small enough to be carried all the time, ridiculously easy to use (no cables, and basic software is already installed right on the camera itself, and using AA batteries), and the video quality is quite acceptable, […]
