Daily Archives: November 5th, 2007

Advanced Aggregation: WordPressMU and Structured Blogging

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 […]

Aggregation, Groups and WordPressMU

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 […]

More on Personal Learning Environments

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 […]