ACCS 2008 Conference Presentation
Friday, March 14, 11:30 - 12:30
Don’t Call It a Blog, Call It Educational Publishing
Outline of presentation:
11:30 - Introduction and Overview
- What is blogging?
- Why WordPress?
- Why WordPress MU?
- Quick look at examples of Educational Publishing - will go into more depth later
- What does it mean for instruction?
- A wealth of educational resources
- What does it mean for enterprise?
11:40 - Demo of Educational Publishing using “Great Lives” as an example
11:50 - In depth look at instructional websites built with WPMU
del.icio.us/jgroom/accs_wpmued
- Jef McClurken’s Digital History Course Site
- The Jotter of Rotter
- UMW Centennial Image Blog
- in·ter·tex·tu·al·i·ty
- Asian American Literature · Just another UMW Blogs.org weblog
- Sculpture I: The Prodigious Builders
- Banned & Dangerous Art
- Italiano 201
- James Farmer & the Great Debaters
- Japanese Internment: The Video & the Rap Song at Featured Blog
- UMW Poetic Sequence Class Site
- Roblog: A student Blog Portfolio
- Eighteenth-Century Audio Site using a WP Blog
- UMW Blogs
- they don’t allow bees in here: Video Portfolio
12:10 - Enterprise concerns and challenges
- Policy Development - Terms of Service, Support, Privacy, Intellectual Property
- Providing the application - hardware, software, application support, community, downloads, hosting
- WPMU Support Pages - basics about hardware, FAQ, Forums
- WPMU Dev - more support, different community - Premium ($) version
- Edublogs Campus - hosted service for your campus
- WordPress.com, Edublogs - free sites for WP blogs that use WPMU
12:20 - (10 min) Q & A