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07/21/2005 Archived Entry: "Fun With WordPress"

Fun With WordPress
I've decided (for now - we still have until Sept 6, right?) to do my Intermediate Writing course this Fall as a WordPress setup. It can be found (still rough) at http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/~jrice/3010/.
Even though I've been blogging since (almost) its inception, I've yet to consider using a blog as a course website. But the point has become obvious to most of us: the static webpage is vanishing (this after I just published an article on a new type of webpage pedagogy I invented!). We need new methods of organizing webspace. The blog is one such method (but not the only one). It has its limitations. But it might prove more dynamic as a space that can be written to throughout the semester by all, not just me.

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Posted by Paintball Gun @ 07/31/2005 01:02 AM EST

Wouldn't this be a good reason to get drupal to work? After all, that supports multiple blogs, right? Though the technical issues represent a bit of a learning curve, at least for me....

Posted by Steve Krause @ 07/24/2005 09:48 AM EST

Awright, looks like we got some hacking to do.

Posted by cbd @ 07/23/2005 01:22 AM EST

Bradley,

I've switched my courses over to Moodle this summer, so it's been a lil hobby. No blog module, but there's a (far less satisfying) module for discussion forums. There's a wiki module, too, though I've found it hard to figure out. (Maybe just me. Tikiwiki is easier.) SOMEONE (hint) should work a blogule into Moodle. It'd be a Bloodle. :)

Posted by Jenny @ 07/22/2005 07:36 PM EST

I wonder if Moodle has a weblog module. If not, I wonder if I can duct-tape WordPress into Moodle to make one.

Posted by cbd @ 07/22/2005 03:11 PM EST

As a WSU MBA student, I've written a few papers on how blogs can be used in the business world instead of static webpages. It is an interesting evolution...

Your class sounds interesting - I wish I had classes like that in undergrad..or even grad school

Posted by MGal @ 07/22/2005 02:16 PM EST

To get WordPress to do multiple blogs under one umbrella, you have to do a serious hack which I've read, but don't know if I'll do.
So it will be free blogs (Motime/Blogger) for all; WordPress for the course. But - they can write to the main course site, which the static page did not allow.

Posted by jeff @ 07/21/2005 07:49 PM EST

the static webpage is vanishing

Now, now. We no media ever vanishes... :) What IS vanishing: the effectiveness of the URI. Not so much with blogs, but with stuff which uses Ajax (e.g. Google Maps).

So do you plan to have students do their own separate weblogs under this umbrella? Or will it be one big weblog?

Posted by cbd @ 07/21/2005 07:29 PM EST