ELI Social Computing

Test post

Heather — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:38:14 +0000

What is the time stamp on this?

Hello from Classified Professional Staff Cross Campus Day

Heather — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:09:56 +0000

Here is a test post!

Welcome to the spring semester workshop!!!

Heather — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:32:04 +0000

I hope you are all getting started creating your first (?) blog post…

Podcasting explanations for WordPress

Heather — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:24:18 +0000

Actually, the previous post with an explanation of how to podcast in Blogger is very pertinent. In both cases, you need to record an audio file and upload it to your home directory.

Then simply add a link in the post.

To add a link, highlight some text, for example, the title of your podcast and then select the link from the editing choices (highlighted in the graphic). Paste the full url of your audio file into the line labeled “Link URL.”

Then publish.

Some additional resources: WordPress’ Site & Podcasting with WordPress

For the Blogger users

Heather — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:14:53 +0000

Here is a set of instructions describing step by step how to podcast with Blogger.

Finding time to blog

Heather — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:03:53 +0000

I enjoyed this post at Dangerously Irrelevant because I had never thought of the argument FOR blogging as that it might save time. To save myself time, I’m crossposting this brief post at my other blog, Cultivating Minds.

Trackbacks, round two

Heather — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:03:26 +0000

From my quick research on this matter, easy integration of trackbacks is what separates WordPress from Blogger (although, not to confuse matters too much, but you do have other choices). Source #1 informs us that you can set up something called Haloscan to manage trackbacking on blogger, this is one possibility. Source #2 gives instructions for setting up “backlines” in Blogger, which looks like trackbacking.

Is anyone confused about what trackbacking is? When it is working seamlessly, all one needs to do is provide a link back to the url of a particular post, and the referring blog post will show up in the comments of the blog being referred to. Case in point, if you look at Christy’s blog post’s comments, you will see two different comments. They are in fact not comments, but trackbacks. The first will take you back to the first reference I made to what she wrote, the second will refer to this post here. Can you think of how you could use this feature of blogging effectively?

Attempting a trackback

Heather — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:47:58 +0000

I am pretty sure this will work in wordpress, so I’m starting there first.

Christy mentions in her first blog post that she didn’t have much luck with Technorati. Did anyone else have the same experience?

This is our awesome example from our centra discussion

Heather — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:44:39 +0000

Setting up the Class Blog

Heather — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:05:49 +0000

I have a few examples of educational blogging, but I will post them one by one, to test the function of the aggregator on the site. It will be lots of fun, really.

My first example in the class blog format. The idea is to create an active discussion outside of class, and in this case, at an institution that does not have an LMS such as Blackboard. Technically, it is easy to set up and manage: the instructor sets it up and would have absolute control over what shows up in the comments section.

The site is Theory Now and an example of an interesting post is a recent one on Performance Art. You can see that the commenters get into the discussion and begin to respond to each other, which is a nice rich discourse.

If I were setting up a class blog, I might also consider having students register as members and add posts. It would look more like this blog of the Instructional Technology program at UVA. Posts are contributed then by each member posting separately.

Laura mentioned a student who blogged and referenced the blog which is still available, but hasn’t been added to in a couple of years. When it is a student blog, I woudn’t worry about this. Blogs can start and stop and if it’s a personal expression or related to academic development, this isn’t a concern, at least not for me. However, if you are involved in students services and considering a blog as part of student outreach, I do think that you need to worry about content that doesn’t look fresh. I think it can send a worse message than never having started a blog at all… What do you think?