November 8, 2007 – 9:23 pm
At the end of the year we send our digital portfolios home with our students on a CDRom. As we’ve previously constructed our digital portfolios using PowerPoint or FrontPage this hasn’t been straight forward, this year we’re blogging with WordPress so how do we do it?
Actually its pretty easy using wget and a bit of […]
November 8, 2007 – 9:18 pm
Freefolio is out as a demo (hat tip Stephen Downes) and its an eportfolio platform using WordPressMU and Structured Blogging. The fact that it uses structured blogging has really got me interested in what they’re doing. Well done to them for giving this a go. Refer to my post just a few days about structured […]
November 5, 2007 – 4:27 pm
I discussed in my previous post Aggregation Groups and WordPressMU, I share how we are using groups and categories to aggregate content in present it rich ways, celebrating community and diversity.
Structured blogging suggest even more useful and powerful ways in which additional meta data can be attached to a blog post.
Consider an excursion to CERES […]
November 5, 2007 – 10:29 am
After deciding to dismiss Learning Management Systems for decentralized but complimentary webservices and tools, the problem of aggregation arises. Out of the box WordPressMU doesn’t aggregate posts from multiple blogs so alternatives need to be found.
One solution is to use a feed reader such as the open source web based Gregarius, which we used to […]
November 5, 2007 – 9:30 am
In my previous post Constructing a Personal Learning Environment with WordPressMU, I didn’t spend time explaining why we’re doing this and why you may want to do the same.
What is a PLE?
A PLE is a fancy name for a set of complimentary webservices which facilitate online learning. This is in direct contrast with the […]
November 4, 2007 – 4:16 am
During the last two years we have been using WordPress as a Personal Learning Environment. In 2006 used multiple single installs while in 2007 we moved to WordPressMU. WordPress allows us to host the software on our own Intranet so that we don’t have to worry about privacy and security, but of course we miss […]