Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V is fast approaching, and it looks like we’re going to have quite a few attendees despite the January time frame and constricting travel budgets. With about two weeks to go until Hack/Doc Fest, we have 23 people registered for Hack/Doc Fest – 17 will be attending in person, 6 will be … Read more
Here are my higher education/web development “Follow Friday” Twitter picks for 12/4/09: @moodle official twitter account for the open source learning management system. @BryanAlexander Higher ed tech guru who groks the intersections of technology, teaching and learning. @jimgroom The best person to follow if you want to keep up with WordPress MU in higher ed.
The first Moodle Hack/Doc Fest was held at Lafayette College in January 2008. Two years later it returns to Lafayette for another three days of coding, documentation, and testing January 5-7, 2010. On the agenda: debugging and testing Moodle 1.9.7, experimenting with the Moodle 2.0 beta (if it’s available), and fixing bugs with Scheduler, Chat … Read more
We did it … three podcasts in just under a month! Yep folks, yet another edition of the ITS Coffee Break is online. In ITS Coffee Break #62 we talk about WordCamp, CLAMP Moodle brown bags, a Mars Rover blog, Twitter lists, how to assess your Twitter social network and a weird little autofocusing bug … Read more
Keeping up with the latest bugs and improvements with WordPress – or heck, any large-scale project – can be a challenge. To that end, I subscribe WordPress Trac and WordPress-MU Trac, the official bug trackers for the WordPress project. They feature a steady stream of bug reports, user problems and feature requests, and they’re a … Read more
CollegeWebEditor.com has a nice profile on Swarthmore College’s use of WordPress to power it’s online magazine, the Swarthmore College Bulletin. The magazine’s based on the Branford Magazine premium theme for WordPress, which just serves to remind me that we need to dig deeper into the premium theme options out there.
Jason Alley’s got a cool little Sites blog called The Alley Way, but alas, he hasn’t updated it recently. So this is just a quick tag post to encourage him to write something nifty, like this post from way back in September: Dude, where’s my iMovie ‘09 project?
The ITS Coffee Break’s resurgence continues with Episode #61, just released today. In this episode, we discuss Chris Phillips essay “I Hear America Reading: Using Digital Audio to Teach American Poetry”, which appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Teaching American Literature and announce Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V, which will be held at Lafayette College. We … Read more
This is a rather ho-hum article about technology on college campuses, and students arriving on campus with iPods, Kindles, etc. What I did find interesting (and by “interesting” I mean “utterly crazy”) is this photo of a student on a treadmill working on an iMac. Now I get multitasking — heck, I watch vidcasts and … Read more