31 August 2010
In the middle of watching these quick vignettes I was reminded not about the state of today’s calendar applications – as was the video’s purpose – but how people think so comprehensively about their personal information and what they expect when accessing it. Complex metadata sets and set relationships are created and expected outcomes due [...]
Posted in Information Creation, Access, & Retrieval, Library & Information Studies0 Comments
04 August 2010
Stuck in an E-Silo The portability of course content when encompassed in an electronic format, especially a blog, can be a hinderance to not only the content creator but also the student. When we think about “e” versions of course materials, an argument is typically thrown into the mix in favor of the medium citing [...]
Posted in Instructional Technology, Online Learning, WordPress3 Comments
17 July 2010
Things are moving along with one of my content types for my research knowledge base. Here’s a quick screenshot of the custom columns pulling the book cover (featured image) and custom taxonomy terms.
Posted in Notes, Ph.D., Researching, WordPress0 Comments
13 July 2010
Educause recently published “7 Things You Should Know about LMS Alternatives” that reflects many of my practices with and values about using WordPress as an alternative learning management system (LMS). You can find this quick read as a PDF here: http://bit.ly/7thingsLMS On how instructor use of an alternative LMS may impact the traditional LMS: By [...]
Posted in Instructional Technology, Online Learning2 Comments
13 July 2010
Updates are going swimmingly with my foray into WordPress 3.0 custom content types, custom taxonomies, and custom columns with my research knowledge base project. All custom content types have been turned into separate plugins as to allow the user to turn them on or off. I hope to create an administrative screen to do this [...]
Posted in Ph.D., Researching0 Comments
11 June 2010
A Woefully Organized Warehouse Six years of higher education has come and gone and all of my materials still sit dormant, waiting anxiously for retrieval and review. Throughout my bachelors and masters degrees I threw away little. Storage boxes rest stacked in a closet with past essays, midterms, and other seemingly academic ephemera. The same [...]
Posted in Ph.D., Researching, WordPress1 Comment
09 June 2010
Shiba’s Custom Widgets plugin has been updated to version 1.1. Here’s a brief description from a previous post (which also includes a screencast) about this dynamic and game-changing plugin for WordPress: Sidebars in WordPress are pretty static: You set the widgets for the sidebar and that’s that. But what if you wanted different sidebars for [...]
05 June 2010
Many thanks to those 150 plus individuals in attendance today at my presentation at WordCamp Chicago. I had an amazing time speaking to a community I’ve come to consider an honor to be a part of. Please feel free to contact me with any questions in the comments below or at Twitter (@thecorkboard). View more [...]
Posted in BuddyPress, Presentations, Publications & Presentations, WordPress0 Comments
04 June 2010
When thinking about the raw power of custom post types in WordPress 3.0, I’ve always wondered what would happen to the UI when larger than average amounts of post types are created. For example, a client wants detailed post types that equate to over six different types of which three are multimedia post types video, [...]
Posted in Notes, WordPress0 Comments
02 June 2010
Another WordPress-powered library website made it into my focus early today when Kris de Winter of the Provinciaal Bibliotheekcentrum Vrieselhof contacted me. And I’m so glad he did. He writes at Library-Tweaks: I’d like to share the recent efforts of me and my colleagues at the PBC (a regional library services agency) in creating a renewed, [...]
Posted in Library & Information Studies, Library Websites & OPACs, WordPress0 Comments
Added on 26 May 2010
It’s Not About a Calendar
Bind It, Anthologize It
Books Content Type Update
What You Need to Know about LMS Alternatives
Research Knowledge Base Update
Prepping a Research Knowledge Base
WordPress Custom Widgets Plugin Updated
Open System, Open Learning – WordCamp Chicago 2010 Presentation Slides
Custom Post Type Groupings?
The AquaBrowser – WordPress Connection
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