Below is an online education parable I have been telling in talks for a few years now. I have finally written it down in order to publish it in my BackBurner column of AECT’s Tech Trends, but thought that autounfocus readers might enjoy it as well.
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There’s been some downtime with the blogs over the weekend. I’m sorry to everyone for the delay in service. We suffered a severe hard drive failure which has caused me to migrate everything to a new server. However, reusability.org blogs should all be working again now. If you have any problems, please let me know. (PS, if you’ve emailed me anything important in the last 5 days, you should do it again!)
I’m about to create around 50 new blogs in an MT install. Does anyone have a script that handles the web-based portion of the creation process? I have a script for creating and setting permissions on directories… Help appreciated.
I’ve updated my “Beginner’s Guide to Blogs in Inst Tech”:http://opencontent.org/blog/docs/begin_blog.html for a presentation Trey and I are doing in about 5 minutes here at PIDT. For what it’s worth.
Due to poor planning (ask me later) I’ve received a “new faculty grant” to start a free access, online, peer-reviewed, instructional technology “journal.” Of course, my inclination is to lean it toward learning objects / reusable media / online communities / blogs / open content / etc. for the topic or niche. But the point of the grant is to explore new publishing models, and there are a whole bunch of other exploratory things that could be done. (This of course all ties back into the recent lamenting about the sorry state of academic discourse in inst tech blog circles…)
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