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Another Alkivia Chameleon Problem fixed
Some might say it’s not entirely worth it, but Alkivia Chameleon is a very nice and very popular theme, so I wanted it to work! Unfortunately (as others have complained), since the latest update (was it the WordPress update? or the Chameleon update? I’m not sure), sites using this theme no longer have any posts […]
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 […]
Alternate Worlds: The Final (?) Chapter
(or: More on Teaching with an Open LMS). I meant to post a midterm follow-up to my two earlier posts (Part One and Part Two) about my Alternate Worlds course. But time got away from me, and I was having so much fun actually teaching the course that that didn’t happen. But now as we […]
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, […]
Radio Interview
I had a great time talking to the guys at the Vassar Talk Tech radio broadcast (WVKR 91.3) this week. Not only did I get to talk about eportfolios (always good), but was able to stay and discuss the iPad. Thanks, guys! (click the player to listen to the whole show) (oops. Looks like podpress […]
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, […]
WordCamp NYC
Coming this Saturday, and it should be a great day. Many CUNY colleagues presenting and (I hope) attending, too. I’ll be on the roundtable on the future of WordPress in Education, and presenting my own eportfolio spiel: Eportfolios are (too often) seen as tools for assessment, for assignments, or for career placement. But thanks to […]
