Just a note to myself that we need to upgrade all WordPress installs to 2.3.2. I subscribed to the WordPress.org feeds to follow updates and security info. Also regarding wp, there is a new version of the Akismet spam filtering plugin. We need to upgrade all sites to Akismet 2.1.3.…
Grrr… I love ScribeFire, but I just accidentally clicked the clear content button and wiped all of my notes from this session. I’ll have to track down the slides later. Creating portlets of static and dynamic content at both the curriculum and course level. Subject librarians tag resource with curriculum…
Talked about rapid progression from MS Office office apps to Google Productivity apps to now Buzzword and SlideRocket from Adobe. Folks from NC talked about web conferencing. Gentleman from Catholic University is speaking about mobile learning. 3-D printers can create 3D physical models using variety of media. Many 3D printers…
Beta is about to end, ready to go into full release. Can create plugins to get custom databases inter-operable. Beta of Zotero Server should be available around January. Will be able to share collections. Will be groups in macro and micro disciplines, official groups. Server software will be open source…
Used for microscope work and wet lab work. Used electrified tables – said they were unhappy with them because they often break. Had to get faculty off of slide projectors. Took two years to digitize all their images and put them in PowerPoint for them. One key to success –…
Examples: Class with 3 assignments – get to Mars, live on Mars, create sustainable energy on Mars. Class used qual and quant data to determine whether or not a school should be closed – Australia. Alignment is critical. Authentic tasks – problem is not well defined. Faculty focus needs to…
Lincoln’s leadership qualities – seems we have superficial markers for who’s the successful candidate. We should be looking at leadership styles. 1. Capacity to listen to different points of view created climate where people felt free to disagree. 2. Ability to learn on job – acknowledge failures and respond to…
Before I forget, I wanted to write this down. It would be nice if users could query the database, sort the results to select just the ones that are relevant and then print those results in a way where they’re formatted like good old index cards. Powered by ScribeFire.
After working with Seth we’ve discovered a number of other recommendations. Add the audit trail plugin so a prof can know if a student has changed a post and what the changes were. Update the index.php, single.php and archive.php with the following code to pull in time stamp and author…
1. I comment out Lines 131-140 of /wp-admin/index.php to clean up the admin interface that students will see. I think it makes it less distracting. It also removes the Need help? links, but they’re redundant because the same links are in the footer of the page. We could also replace…