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, [...]
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Enhancing WordPress-as-LMS
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 [...]
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Aug
Piloting BuddyPress as a LMS
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.