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A WordPress as LMS Mockup

A WordPress as LMS Mockup

Background After reading Stas’ proposal for a WordPress as LMS or course management system based on BuddyPress on the WP-Edu threads, my mind started to turn.  What would I want a real WP as LMS site to look like and what features might it include?  Below are the mockups that I came up with. I [...]

See You at WordCamp Chicago

See You at WordCamp Chicago

58 individual tickets still remain for WordCamp Chicago 2010 on the 5th and 6th of June, a conference at which I’m excited to say I’ll be presenting.  Tentatively titled in the program as “Using WordPress and BuddyPress for Education,” you can catch my presentation early on Saturday at 9 A.M. – you can also expect [...]

WordPress as LMS Interview at WPMU.org

WordPress as LMS Interview at WPMU.org

If you didn’t pick up on the chatter on Twitter, WPMU.org gave me great questions for our interview on using WordPress as a learning management system. See the full interview here: bit.ly/wpmuwplms —– More: Joseph Ugoretz profiles his thoughts and uses of WordPress as LMS here and here Jim Groom, the Rev himself, puts in [...]

Announcing “WordPress for Libraries,” an Upcoming Library Technology Report

Announcing “WordPress for Libraries,” an Upcoming Library Technology Report

I am thrilled to announce that I will be co-authoring an upcoming ALA TechSource Library Technology Report (LTR) on using WordPress for libraries, which will be published in the spring of 2011. Polly-Alida Farrington, my great co-author, and I have already begun the invigorating planning for this project. While this LTR will, like most LTR’s, [...]

Piloting BuddyPress as a LMS

Piloting BuddyPress as a LMS

31 August 2009

Beginning this Fall semester, Michael Stephens and myself (Kyle Jones) began piloting an open source learning management system (LMS) built on WordPress Multi User (WPMU) and BuddyPress.  This post explains our history with WPMU, the move to BuddyPress, and some of Michael’s initial thoughts on the pilot. By TTW Contributor Kyle Jones http://thecorkboard.org @thecorkboard

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Book Review – Google Docs 4 Everyone

13 July 2009

Holzner, Steve and Nancy Holzner. Google Docs 4 Everyone. Que. Feb. 2009. 251p. ISBN 978-0-7897-3936-0. pap. $19.99. As a longtime user of Google Docs, I was curious to read what this text had to say about these powerful web applications and to see if they were given the credit they deserve. Google Docs 4 Everyone met, if [...]

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Book Review – Dojo

19 May 2009

Gill, R., Riecke C., & Russell, A. Mastering Dojo: JavaScript and Ajax Tools for Great Web Experiences. Pragmatic. June 2008. 548p. ISBN 978-1-034356-11-1. pap. $38.95. Harmon, James E. Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications. Addison Wesley. June 2008. 316p. ISBN 978-0-13-235804-0. pap. $39.99. Russell, Matthew A. Dojo: The Definitive Guide. O’Reilly. June 2008. 451p. [...]

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Book Review – Facebook Cookbook

19 May 2009

Goldman, Jay. Facebook Cookbook. O’Reilly. Oct. 2008. 404p. ISBN 978-0-596-61817-2. pap. $39.99. From conceptualization to creation, Facebook Cookbook helps readers create a winning application while providing a deep working understanding of the Facebook application platform. Succinct writing in each section never leaves the reader bewildered by the potentially onorous task of writing a Facebook app. In fact, [...]

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Book Review – iPhone in Action

19 May 2009

Allen, Christopher and Shannon Appelcline. iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development. Manning. 2009. 448p. ISBN 978-1933988863. pap. $39.99 Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline’s iPhone in Action is a gem for any web developer’s library. While the text gives excellent novice-level overviews of the iPhone’s more flashy technologies (Dashcode, XCode, Objective-C, and programming for [...]

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KGB Answers your Text Messages

16 March 2009

No, it’s not the secret service of the Soviet Union – it is, however, the commercialized reference desk.  KGB, or the knowledge generation bureau as they sometimes call themselves, provides a two-way text reference service straight to mobile devices.  Anywhere.  Anytime. Which begs these questions: What about the reference desk?  Why not ask a librarian? [...]

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Put Virtual Reference in the User’s Pocket

Put Virtual Reference in the User’s Pocket

14 February 2008

Some say that IM is on the verge of extinction and that forging into such territory for virtual reference so late in the game is a waste of a library’s energy. You can surely count me as one of those who agrees with that statement. I predict, as do many others, that virtual reference needs [...]

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Business trends @ your library

Business trends @ your library

15 January 2008

As we’ll see, coffeehouses provided something society needed: a place to just be. But no one had any idea how badly we needed it. (51) So reads a section of Starbucked by Taylor Clark. The idea of a comfort place, a third place as it has been called, was taken under the wing by the [...]

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About Kyle

Kyle is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Library and Information Studies (LIS) doctoral program. His research, which focuses on personal learning networks (PLNs) and the openness (or lack thereof) of information exchange in learning management systems along with LIS education, is on track to be finished by 2015.

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