23 May 2010
**UPDATE BELOW** One of the projects I wanted to complete while working at Elmhurst College was morphing WordPress into a sort of course guides publisher for information literacy classes. At the top of this to do list was using the links manager as a repository for database and web resources. In doing some research tonight, [...]
Posted in Notes, WordPress4 Comments
16 May 2010
After scouring the WordPress forums and the Google for answers, I put this question out in the ether to see if someone knows of a quick way to fix this issue: How do you remove the following user profile fields: Everything under “Personal Options” The website URL under “Contact Info” The biographical info under “About [...]
Posted in Notes, WordPress5 Comments
06 May 2010
Dan Klyn explains Information Architecture excellently. See also: IAI’s contest The IAI “Explain IA” flickr group
Posted in IA/UX/CS, Library & Information Studies, Notes0 Comments
05 May 2010
For the first time in a bit I revisited Drupal to see what improvements had been made on the user experience portion of the admin. I had read in a few different places and saw the work happening in The Drupal Redesign group on flickr that demonstrated the extreme effort being put in to not [...]
Posted in Library & Information Studies, Notes, The Web0 Comments
04 May 2010
It’s been great to follow the WordPress education (WP-Edu) listserv over the past couple of months as the annual Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project ideas started to emerge. While these discussions were being had in a variety of WordPress listservs, my interest was piqued by Stas Suscov’s conversation about the role BuddyPress can play [...]
Posted in BuddyPress, Instructional Technology, Online Learning, WordPress2 Comments
01 March 2010
Check-ins, badges, and becoming mayor have nothing to do with libraries and everything to do with the geolocation game foursquare…. well it did until some of the librarians here at Darien began hijacking our own venue (Darien Library). We began checking in every time we came into work, closely monitoring who among us was crowned [...]
Posted in Exploratory Librarianship0 Comments
20 January 2010
After a highly successful foray into using WordPress as a learning management system (LMS) in the fall of 2009 (see my debrief), Michael Stephens and I continue to tweak and enhance the system for his three classes this spring in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University (GSLIS). As a quick [...]
Posted in BuddyPress, Instructional Technology, Online Learning, WordPress0 Comments
14 December 2009
A full semester has come and gone since Michael Stephens and I initiated a social network inspired course management site using WordPress Multi User (WPMU) and BuddyPress at Classes.TameTheWeb.com (classes.ttw). We made some assumptions about what this type of learning management system might do for students: Connect them more with their peers on a more [...]
Posted in BuddyPress, Instructional Technology, Online Learning, WordPress0 Comments
08 December 2009
In Mick Jacobsen’s post, “An Unformed Thought,” in which he discussed the possibility of libraries acting as a hub for information technology needs such as website design and hosting, he hit on a core value of librarianship – community building. As we strive to build library spaces that are usable and promote interaction and collaboration, [...]
Posted in The Web0 Comments
01 December 2009
I’ve had a mixed bag of library stuff floating around my head for a bit now between roving reference, mobile devices, and a mix of the two. With iPhone’s apps and Droid’s open architecture it’s starting to make me think that a lot of things are possible that weren’t so before (pending someone is able [...]
Posted in Exploratory Librarianship, Library & Information Studies0 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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