Category Archives: work

Writings about work, new media and education, and other thoughts.

Summer of Moodle

This summer I lead the TTL group at MassArt converting our Moodle 1.9 to 2.0 and moving it to MoodleRooms as part of it becoming MassArt’s official course-ware. We’ve been using Moodle at MassArt since 2004, first as a small pilot for the Art Education department and then as an alternative course-ware platform for the entire school. By 2010, we’d hosted our 80th course.

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Site ReBoot

Running the website on WordPress 3.2 now. Returning to WP after a Joomla hiatus. Imported my old MovableType blog “caught in the web” while I was at it.

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Gallery

Spring Cleaning – of the virtual kind

This gallery contains 4 photos.

I’ve been updating my website, again. As I scrounge through many years of re-builds and image archives, I see there is a pattern to the activity at my site, which has been online since 1995 and under my own domain … Continue reading

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Winter Work

MassArt Online: Built with WordPressMU and BuddyPress. MassArt Faculty and students can use the site to access social tools such as forums, groups and activity feeds and maintain a personal or academic blog.

Recent conversion of Saturday Studios Student pages from Joomla with DocMan to a WordPress Blog.Students contribute original lesson plans and galleries of their experiences teaching in the Saturday Studios program.

Saturday Studios BlogThis ties the work students do in Saturday Studios with the blog platform they are beginning to use in earlier courses. The use of a blogging platform for academic writing and portfolios results in each student developing a rich ePortfolio while learning real-world new media skills.

MassArt Online Courses:
Moodle 2.0 development and migration from 1.9.x continues.
We have our testing server up. Live courses are in the 1.9.x build.

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