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Pimping the WPMU for ucalgaryblogs.ca
Mon, 2008/08/18 - 15:55 — dnormanI’ve been slowly tweaking the WPMU install that drives ucalgaryblogs.ca - it’s not quite ready for prime time, but it’s darned close.
It’s now got:
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Learning Community - Blogging and Student Publishing
Mon, 2008/07/21 - 10:36 — dnormanWe held our first gathering of the “Blogging and Student Publishing” learning community last week. It was a small, informal gathering - only a handful of profs were able to make it due to summer schedules, and another handful of staff.
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Spore Creature Creator
Fri, 2008/06/27 - 13:42 — dnormanI’ve been following Spore since I saw the first demo at TED.
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on learning communities
Mon, 2008/06/23 - 11:08 — dnormanI’ve been working on organizing a project I’ve called “Learning Communities” here at UCalgary. It’s still a bit amorphous, but that’s actually part of the plan. What I’m going to do is offer resources and support to any communities on campus so that they can effectively get together and share what they’re doing.
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on content management and communities
Tue, 2008/06/10 - 11:44 — dnormanI’ve been deep in thought, planning a set of resources to support a community project, and have been struggling with how to best position these resources to best reflect a dynamic, engaged, face-to-face set of communities.
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on edupunk
Wed, 2008/05/28 - 18:09 — dnormanJim’s been talking about edupunk a fair bit lately (starting with the killer post The Glass Bees, then Permapunk and finally tying in the awesome Murder, Madness, Mayhem wikipedia project), and
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educational simulations
Tue, 2008/05/13 - 12:50 — dnormanI’ve been collecting some links to interesting educational simulations to show faculty members. There’s some great stuff out there. The list is NOT comprehensive, and I’m not including LOTS of great simulations. This is just the list I give to faculty members asking about effective educational simulations.
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Faculty Technology Days 2008
Wed, 2008/05/07 - 12:45 — dnormanI was involved with two sessions at this year’s Faculty Technology Days conference on campus. The first one was a keynote panel on “Social Networking in the Academy” and the second was “Weblogs as Personal Repositories.”
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Creating a custom compound field for CCK
Fri, 2008/05/02 - 12:17 — dnormanI’m working on a project that partially involves the development of a website in Drupal to act as a directory of people who have graduated from a given University. Seems easy. I went into the project thinking it would be a trivial application of Taxonomies, or maybe some generic CCK fields.
Nope. Turns out the problem is much more difficult and complex than I initially thought.
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