Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
WordPress MU 2.7.1 removed the Admin Toolbar as a standard plugin. It threw Courtney, Jason and I for a bit of a loop, as we’d come to rely on the toolbar to quickly navigate our WordPress MU install. It’s not a critical thing, but it sure is convenient. A quick twitter ping about the fate … Read more
Because the world needs more LEGOs, I present you with … A Lego A Day (For a Year) which offers a photo a day of a minifig (aka LEGO people). I’m coming in on the tail end of this, and I can only hope that the creator re-ups it for another year…
When it comes to editing wikis, I’m fine with using wiki code. It’s simple, easy to use, and it does what I want it to do. That said, I can see how it can frustrate some people (aka my co-workers) so I carved out some time today to work on installing the CKEditor extension into … Read more
Card sorts are an information architecture tool used to help discover how people would organize information on your web site if they ran the zoo. The idea is that you give people a bunch of cards labeled with web page names and then ask them to sort them into piles. They then label the piles, … Read more
Winter is over, spring is in the air and the Easton Farmers Market returns this weekend! Our family makes regular pilgrimages down from College Hill to the Easton Centre Square because of the Farmers Market throughout the late spring, summer and fall, and I’m looking forward to getting back into the habit. An added bonus is that May … Read more
Wired.com is switching over its blogs from TypePad to WordPress. Wired’s blogs include Geek Dad and WebMonkey and while there’s no word about why they made the change, it’s nice to see them join the WordPress family.
It’s time to get hacking again. The fourth Moodle Hack/Doc Fest — in which we spend three days working on code, documentation, and support materials for Moodle — will be held at Smith College on June 3-5, 2009. This time around we’ll be focusing on making Moodle 1.9.x as rock solid as possible, as most … Read more
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) is sponsoring its first round of Moodle usability testing this spring. here are two tests, one for faculty, one for students, that evaluate common tasks that they are likely to encounter when working in Moodle (such as updating their profile, responding to forum assignments, creating assignments, grading assignments, … Read more
One of my big projects this year — Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project — is now live. The project, known as CLAMP, is being funded by a NITLE Innovation Fund grant that was awarded to Lafayette and five other colleges last June to foster collaboration among liberal arts colleges in maintaiing and developing Moodle. The … Read more