Short content: a microblog of status updates or short notes
Spent the last couple of hours banging on the next version of the Micropub plugin for WordPress. Too tired to troubleshoot anymore, so issues will have to wait until the morning.
It would seem that one of Greg McVerry’s quote posts, which I’m pretty sure he made to illustrate a process point about the Post Kinds plugin on his website and not necessarily to highlight the quote itself, sent me down the rabbit hole of discovery on some of the origins and history of open pedagogy today.
Saw some interesting examples on the way however, which have given me some intriguing ideas to begin trying out in the near future.
It’s been a while since I’ve thought about it, but micropublish.net seems to be a pretty solid micropub client for use with WordPress. I suspect it works really well for mobile too. Based on a test or two it seems to also dovetail with the Post Kinds plugin as well.
Had a new sliding glass door installed in the family room today!
The old door has been removed.Tented off to expand the opening a tad for the new door.Out with the old…The staging site in front of the house for the new door to come.
The freshly installed sliding glass door!
For those interested in misinformation, journalism, authority, trust, verification, fact checking, etc., the MisInfoCon is going on this week in Washington. Some interesting things in the Twitter feed for #misinfocon.
Some of the details might be useful for digital pedagogy settings as well. May make an interesting project for those in EDU522 especially if you’re considering the hoax website assignment?
To some extent my IndieWeb Collection/Research page has a lot of these “backstage” type posts for those who are interested. As part of the IndieWeb community, I’ve been documenting how and what I’ve been doing on my site for a while, hopefully these backstage posts will help other educators follow in my path without need to blaze as much of it anew for themselves.
Backstage posts are in actuality a very IndieWeb thing:
As we discover new ways to do things, we can document the crap out of them. —IndieWeb.org
Started playing around with PressBooks for WordPress tonight. Some interesting and useful book collaboration, editing, and production tools hiding in here.
Wondering why @sfiscience’s excellent website has no RSS, ATOM, JSON, or other feed available? #scicomm
Want to read: Son of Interflux by Gordon Korman, ISBN: 9780590411868
I’m really enjoying the fact that my website has an On This Day feature now. It’s nice to be reminded of interesting things I’ve done or things I’ve bookmarked and meant to read, but haven’t yet had the time. It also makes me want to pull in more data from older services to have a longer timeline for it.
Incidentally, Happy Anniversary to my Little Free Library which is celebrating its third birthday in a new location.
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As I look at some of the websites being created for the EDU522 class, it’s exciting to see what people are creating and how they’re expressing themselves. As hinted at in the Who Am I module, I do think it may be useful for some to think about the readability and accessibility of their sites. Even simple things like the color of a background against text can make it unpleasant or difficult to read. For ideas on readability, I recommend Kevin Marks’ WIRED article How the Web Became Unreadable.1
Be creative and have fun, but remember the multiple audiences and communities who may not consume your content the same way you do.
As the new school year draws near and #edtech enthusiasts continue to push the benefits of #OER, let’s also take a moment to remember and celebrate the ability of students to choose their own educational resources and books.
Teachers need to do a better job of providing options, flexibility, and guidance in the panoply of choices available to students of all income levels and abilities. Increased choice at the student level will drastically improve both the literal and proverbial marketplace of ideas.
Here’s some additional detail I wrote on this day a few years back:
