September 2008 Archives

If you did not attend the workshop on using blog websites, here's the handout. The last slide includes addresses to websites I showed and can get you started with ideas. Again, my primary purpose for this topic is to help faculty get started with their own website, begin posting rich content that can be used in class or in collaboration with other people, and then begin to think creatively about how this technology can dramatically enhance what we do at the college. One step at a time, but I'm looking to get interested people together to brainstorm ideas. Here are two example sites: a very simple one I'm using now, and one demo site I put together for the presentation.

I spent some time this summer converting all my websites over to Wordpress. What's that mean? The old sites were the typical html pages that I had to update by editing files in Dreamweaver, uploading via FTP, forever fixing broken links, trying to remember the code for videos, etc. What a nightmare, and so I began experimenting with both Wordpress and Moveable Type this past spring. I actually ended up asking Mike Fry to install a server copy of Moveable Type for me to run the CETL website - so that's what's running this post you're reading. For my other stuff I decided on Wordpress, and I like it a lot. These are both blog-based