Loosely Coupled

From SOLR Wiki

Flavours of blogs...

• Blogs as content management system: OLT Website, Celebrate Learning, Digital Tattoo

• Community sites: Blog Squad, LEAP

• Courseblogs: ETEC522, ETEC521, SSED317, LLED601a, ORTM306 (UNBC), BIOL311 (UNBC)

• Portfolio: Michelle Chua

• Photos/Images: superNova K

• Presentation: Ink, Example

• Portal: North of the Rio Grande, Survey of Spanish-American Literature to the 1820s - each contributing blog is on the student's choice of platform.

Development

• LEAP Embed Code via JSON: Original Page, Reproduced

• MediaWiki Embed Code: Original, syndicated here. (Quickie screencast here.)

• Wiki Ink WordPress Plugin: So wiki maintained pages here can be represented here. D'Arcy Norman has done a screencast demo.

• OpenCourseWareRSS as import for WordPress: Via David Wiley (also working on this wireframe), and Jim Groom

• Distributed Blog/CMS - Proxied website Original, Proxied

• Private RSS - key for private communities

• Add user widget

• Add RSS feed widget

As an aside...

• Does anyone have an interest in an unscientific comparison of an LMS and blog-based courses on an iPhone?