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Archive for May, 2009

Working on my project: Edutagit

Check out my project that I have been working on for awhile now, but I have just recently updated. I added a “Recently Added” link to show the latest 20 sites that have been submitted along with changing the long list of tags into two columns. This site has given me expierence with working with PHp and MySQL — which I need to learn much more about!

Check out the site: http://www.edutagit.com

The site consists of many resources for technology integration such as web 2.0 tools and programs, help resources, informational sites, etc. Basically a great site to come and get resources for technology integration. I also plan on having a submit link so users can submit their own resources.

Working with WPMU: tips/tutorials

I am currently working on our district’s wpmu installation and the main blog. I was asked by my boss to see if we can get some sort of listing of our staff’s blogs that are set to public. With a little trouble at first (not unzipping the plugin file before opening because I thought it was just a .php file on win2003 server, duh!) I was able to install a little plug-in called list-all and by following the instructions on wpmu tutorials I was easily able to create a page listing all of the public blogs!

While completing the above task I wondered how I could make the theme I was using unavailable to others because I do not want regular users to see the member listing template when adding a new page (a new page was added to the theme). Towards the end of the instructions I was presented with a link doing just that! I then went on to my next task to enable the theme for just the main blog.

I’m excited to give our staff a blogging option that is hosted in house. I plan to get more comfortable with Wordpress code and maybe even look into creating a custom plug-in…well…maybe…

Check out my preview of the book, Moodle Administration, on my Moodlerific.org blog!