One of my professional heros, Jim Groom, aka edupunk, has written about the upcoming WordPress University event on April 8.
More campuses are exploring and hacking on open source applications like WordPress to start re-imagining the social implications of web-based communities for publishing, research, teaching, and learning. Read More
I’m giving a presentation on crossing online boundaries in higher education at WordPress University in Norwood, Massachusetts (near Boston) on April 8. Organizer Randy Rode has put together a phenomenal agenda for this second annual conference, covering five distinctive uses of WordPress on campuses around the country.
I’m excited about presenting several of the frameworks we’re using to renovate the bates.edu domain. Here’s the session description:
A decade ago, the higher education Web experience was segmented into walled gardens — the public Web site, the course management system, online transactions, alumni communities, events calendars. The legacy of that structure was that our lifelong relationships with the college were interrupted as we students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni moved from system to system. Read More
The Home/Views site — the first phase of a whole-domain renovation for Bates College — was designed to improve first impressions, draw visitors toward their interests, and help them make a deeper connection with the College.
We welcomed 260,000 absolute unique visitors to the combined www.bates.edu and home.bates.edu sites in January, 2010; annualized, that is 3,110,000. Approximately 35% of that combined traffic is to home.bates.edu. Read More
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Presentation: Crossing Web Boundaries
Last week, I made a presentation at NERCOMP’s WordPress University seminar. I’ve posted a [24]-minute narrated version of the presentation on Slide Share. [Updated with audio from the live presentation.]