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WordPress Workshops

WordPress is a platform for creating a wide range of web sites, including this one. A number of workshops on WordPress have been scheduled in October.

WordPress Introductory Workshop

This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about WordPress.

1:00 – 2:00 pm, Fri, Oct. 14 Library 105

If you are interested in attending this workshop, see:
WordPress Workshop Sign Up

WordPress Work Sessions

We have also scheduled a number of work sessions on WordPress, as well as Moodle. These work sessions are designed to provide hands on assistance to anyone who is working on a site or has specific questions. Here are dates/times:

4:00 – 5:00 pm, Tues October 18, Library 105
4:15 – 5:15 pm, Thurs October 20, Library 105
4:00 – 5:00 pm, Weds October 26, Library 105
2:00 – 3:00 pm, Thurs October 27, Library 105

If you are interested in attending one or more of these sessions, see:
WordPress/Moodle Work Session Sign Up

For more information about WordPress, see:
http://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/wiki/LIS/WordPress
http://sites.middlebury.edu/wordpress

For a full list of workshops offered by LIS as well as links to other resources for learning about technology, see:
Help & Support » How to Learn More » On-campus Workshops

WordPress in the Liberal Arts

Last week I attended a Nercomp event on WordPress in the Liberal Arts in Norwood, MA and participated in a panel on WordPress themes and plugins with colleagues from the College of Wooster and Abilene Christian University. About 45 people attended, most from institutions that were already using WordPress. Many of these same institutions were also using Moodle and Drupal.

WordPress is used by many for course sites. Abilene Christian University has integrated it with Banner making it easy for their faculty to create class blogs that automatically include students. The College of Wooster has an instance of WordPress referred to as Voices, that includes BuddyPress and bbPress, popular WordPress plugins and associated platforms that add functionality for creating groups and forums and aggregating activity streams across various sites. Mark Frydenberg from Bentley University teaches his students how to maintain a WordPress site, requiring each student to take on the role of site administrator and tasking them with changing the site theme, adding plugins and managing roles.

Some institutions are using WordPress for e-portfolios. Macaulay Honors College has over 1,500 sites in EPorfolios@Macaulay, which also makes use of BuddyPress to create various groups that they plan to include in their upcoming WordPress student portal, My.Macaulay. Some institutions even use WordPress for the college website including Bates, Lafayette and Wheaton.

Moodle and Course Hub Work Sessions

The Curricular Technology team has organized a number of workshops on the Course Hub, Moodle and WordPress which have been very well attended and have provided us with great feedback.

We have also just scheduled a number of work sessions next week, specifically for faculty and staff who have already started to create sites in these new platforms and have specific questions or just want to collaborate with colleagues and LIS staff. Here’s the schedule of these new work sessions:

10:00-11:00 am Weds, Sept 7th, Library 105
2:00-4:00 pm Weds, Sept 8th, Library 105
10:00-12:00 pm Weds, Sept 9th, Library 105

For the full schedule of workshops, see:
Segue from Segue > Workshops

WordPress for Course Sites

(Cross-posting from WordPress @ Middlebury):

WordPress and Moodle are the primary alternatives to Segue for course sites at Middlebury. A number of workshops have been scheduled on how to use WordPress for course sites and how it is integrated with the Course Hub.

11:00 am -12:00 pm, Wednesday, August 31, Library 105
11:00 am -12:00 pm, Thursday, Sept 1, Library 105
4:00-5:00 pm, Tuesday, Sept 6, Library 105
3:00-4:00 pm, Wednesday, Sept 7, Library 105

To attend one of these sessions, please fill out our sign up form, see:
WordPress / Course Hub Workshop Sign Up

These sessions have been scheduled before or after similar sessions on Moodle, Middlebury’s new learning management system (LMS). To learn more about how these platform compare, see: Curricular Technologies Platform Overview. If you’d like to attend one of the Moodle sessions, there is still time to sign up: Click to sign up for a Moodle Workshop.

Curricular Technology Workshops

The Curricular Technology (CT) team will be organizing workshops this summer on new technologies for teaching, learning and research including the new Course Hub and the Moodle learning management system (LMS). The first series of these workshops will be offered next week. Here are details:

Curricular Technology Platforms Overview

1:00 – 2:00 pm, Tues, June 21, Library 105

This workshop will give an overview of the platforms that will be available in the next academic year for creating course websites including the Course Hub, Moodle and WordPress. For more information on the Course Hub, which will become the definitive starting point for all online course resources, see:
The Course Hub > About

Moodle workshop

2-3:30 pm, Weds, June 22, Library 105

This workshop will introduce Moodle, one of the platforms that will replace Segue for creating course sites. For more information on Moodle, see:
Moodle @ Middlebury

WordPress workshop

1-2:30 pm, Fri, June 24, Library 105

This workshop will introduce WordPress, another platform that can be used as a replacement for Segue for creating course sites. For more information on WordPress, see:
WordPress @ Middlebury

Weekly Web Development Round-up May 30-June 3, 2011

To give our colleagues a better idea of what’s changed in our web applications each week, we’ll be preparing this quick list for publication each Friday. Not all of the details of each change are included below, but we’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have in the comments.

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Weekly Web Development Round-up April 11-15, 2011

Subscribe to feeds on private blogs

Today we released a new plugin for WordPress that allows you to subscribe to the RSS feeds of private blogs using any RSS reader.

When you are logged in and viewing a private blog, the RSS feed links will now contain a special key unique to you and the blog that gives your reader access to the feed. There is nothing special you need to do, just subscribe as usual and feeds from private blogs will now work without redirecting your reader to the login page.