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I Can’t Quit You, Facebook!
While I’d like to think that I sound like Otis Rush when I agonize over quitting Facebook, truth is, I probably sound a lot more like Jack Twist. I find Facebook’s well-documented privacy shenanigans...
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“You’ve Got to Be A Real Fat Man…”
Sometime last month Jeff Swain asked on Twitter “what makes something funny?” I replied with one of the foundational statements of my world view, from Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors: “If it...
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ProfPacker
It’s the Spring conference season, and if your graduate school experience was anything like mine, nobody talked to you about how to pack for the semiannual excursions you’ll have to take to meet up...
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Slouching Towards BuddyPress
photo credit: waferboard I’m preparing to roll BuddyPress out on Blogs@Baruch later this month, and I’ve grown a little concerned about the implications of doing so. I thought I’d write up some of my...
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The Path to Blogs@Baruch
photo credit: Ian Sane™ Jim Groom and Brian Lamb recently asked me and some of my fellow CUNYs to reflect on how we’ve “designed or conceptualized” the publishing platforms we oversee, with a focus on...
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Blogs@Baruch, now with BuddyPress!
I recently completed a significant upgrade to Blogs@Baruch, and I thought I’d blog my hacks and some of the thinking behind them for teh Google to index. The goal of the upgrade was to get BuddyPress...
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On EdTech and the Digital Humanities
photo credit: myoldpostcards Last Wednesday Matt Gold and Charlie Edwards invited me and a few of my favorite CUNYs to come speak to the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, a new group at the...
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Pressible
WordCamp gatherings consistently deliver the latest, mindblowing innovations happening with WordPress, and I’m still processing much of what I learned when we hosted WordCampNYC this past weekend. One...
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I encountered a pretty scary error on the WordPress Multisite network I manage yesterday, which turned out to be something relatively minor. I thought I’d blog it in case someone else found themselves...
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The Challenges of Turning Inwards
photo credit: Sarah G… Over the past few years I’ve approached the digital humanities with a touch of skepticism. Much of this has had to do with my own career path and anxieties: I did digital...
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Where are the students?
photo credit: ShuttrKing|KT Boone’s post about Blackboard as an impetus behind his turn to open source software development got a lot of attention on Monday, and for good reason. He struck a fine...
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Finding #ds106radio
I really dug the DIY Radio for Teaching and Learning session that Mikhail Gershovich organized last night at Baruch College. I’ve been following the evolution of the community that’s emerged around the...
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Migrating
photo: DSCF-Photographer Today I migrated Blogs@Baruch, the 10k user WordPress installation I manage, to a new server. Our previous server was unable to handle the system’s activity. We had been in a...
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Zombies Rebels & Federals: #UMWFA12
I spent the better part of the week before last in Fredericksburg, Virginia at the University of Mary Washington’s “Faculty Academy.” This is a small event, spread over two days, and oriented primarily...
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Integrating with Active Directory; or, Why it Ain’t All Bad Being Official
This guy’s official. cc licensed http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkscully/5038201085/ I just completed a major overhaul of the authentication process by which users log in to Blogs@Baruch. Previously,...
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FRO12: Now Much Artier
This summer Mikhail Gershovich and I re-wrote the three blog prompts required of all Baruch College students taking Freshman Seminar. The previous prompts, which we wrote a few years ago, were way too...
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By far the best component of my current career path is that I get to spend a significant amount of time collaborating with really cool and smart people. These collaborations have been particularly...
View ArticlePosts and Comments Together, Oh My!
A few days ago, Captain Primate asked: anyone know of a WP plugin that will display a user’s posts and comment in one place? — Ethan Watrall (@captain_primate) October 14, 2012 WordPress doesn’t have...
View ArticleAssessing Coursera, the LMS
Coursera announced last week that it will be partnering with ten state university systems to “explore MOOC-based learning and collaboration on campus.” The news revealed what many of us who have been...
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Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Three, Course Blogging
Blogs@Baruch was used in approximately two dozen courses this semester, in disciplines that included Fine and Performing Arts, English, Sociology/Anthropology, Journalism, Library Information Systems,...
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Our Course Blog Will Eat Your Brains
One of our goals in supporting Blogs@Baruch is to generate new models for online and hybrid instruction. We encourage the faculty we work with to confront the challenging question of what’s made...
View ArticleAudio of “Teaching With Blogs” Presentation
This past Spring I was pleased to moderate a panel at the Baruch Teaching with Technology Conference featuring three of Baruch’s most accomplished blogfessors: Mikhail Gershovich, whose Fear, Anxiety,...
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FRO12: Now Much Artier
This summer Mikhail Gershovich and I re-wrote the three blog prompts required of all Baruch College students taking Freshman Seminar. The previous prompts, which we wrote a few years ago, were way too...
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