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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I see you went ahead and bought wp-edu.org :) I think we could utilize categories (or even, gasp, custom post types) to great effect – creating a showcase of education sites, walkthroughs of processes a la the UMW WPMU-to-3.0 move, vetted plugins, etc. Encouraging active discussion (whether separately in forums or in post comments or both) would also be important.<BR>
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Helen Hou-Sandi (MM’08)<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Jeff VanDrimmelen <<a href="jeffvand@unc.edu">jeffvand@unc.edu</a>><BR>
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<B>Date: </B>Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:29:57 -0500<BR>
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<B>Subject: </B>Re: [wp-edu] Educational Focused WordCamp?<BR>
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I kind of like wp-edu.org <<a href="http://wp-edu.org">http://wp-edu.org</a>> . I don't mind typing -'s. :) I have never been a fan of bleeding things together like we tend to do in web land. <BR>
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I just took a look at the wpmued.org <<a href="http://wpmued.org">http://wpmued.org</a>> dev site and it is fantastic. I like the pulling posts in from separate blogs and I think that is a great start. The more I think about it, the more a wiki sounds like a good idea. That way we can have pages of suggested plugins, and pages for each plugin with suggestions for getting help, etc. That is going to be more useful for those getting started than searching through blog posts.<BR>
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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Helen Hou <<a href="hhou@esm.rochester.edu">hhou@esm.rochester.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>It’s true, saying “double you pee dash ee dee you” is awkward, but I think it might be the more appropriate option in that it doesn’t limit to MU or WordPress as a learning tool (and also parallels this mailing list name nicely!). I wonder if there would be a way to work with the great minds behind WPMu Ed to migrate/mirror applicable content in a non-”deprecated name space.”<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Jay Collier <<a href="jay.collier@thecompass.com">jay.collier@thecompass.com</a> <<a href="http://jay.collier@thecompass.com">http://jay.collier@thecompass.com</a>> ><BR>
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<B>Date: </B>Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:57:15 -0400<BR>
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<B>Subject: </B>Re: [wp-edu] Educational Focused WordCamp?<BR>
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I just took a look at <wp-edu.org <<a href="http://wp-edu.org">http://wp-edu.org</a>> <<a href="http://wp-edu.org/">http://wp-edu.org/</a>> > without the hyphen: <<a href="http://wpedu.org">http://wpedu.org</a> <<a href="http://wp-edu.org/">http://wp-edu.org/</a>> >. Using that domain, we'd have to be always repeating "hyphen" in conversation ;) Poor typists would wonder when we started doing auto-translation.<BR>
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<<a href="http://dev.wpmued.org/">http://dev.wpmued.org/</a>> seems to have an established function and sounds as if it is focused on MU.<BR>
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Also available (with neighbors):<BR>
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wplearning.org <<a href="http://wplearning.org">http://wplearning.org</a>> <<a href="http://wplearning.org">http://wplearning.org</a>> (<a href="http://wplearning.com">http://wplearning.com</a>)<BR>
wplearn.net <<a href="http://wplearn.net">http://wplearn.net</a>> <<a href="http://wplearn.net">http://wplearn.net</a>> (<a href="http://wplearn.com">http://wplearn.com</a>, <a href="http://wplearn.org">http://wplearn.org</a>) <BR>
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On Sep 9, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Jeff VanDrimmelen wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>If the site already exists out there, that's great. I'd love to contribute. If not, can we use wp-edu.org <<a href="http://wp-edu.org">http://wp-edu.org</a>> <<a href="http://wp-edu.org/">http://wp-edu.org/</a>> ? It is available. I'm just not sure we that is okay. <BR>
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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Jane Wells <<a href="jane@automattic.com">jane@automattic.com</a> <<a href="http://jane@automattic.com">http://jane@automattic.com</a>> > wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> Didn't Jim Groom start a site a while back where ed people were<BR>
posting what they're doing with WP/MU/BP in academic settings?<BR>
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On 9/9/10 5:15 PM, Helen Hou wrote:<BR>
> That's where I'm hung up a little bit as well, actually. I knew that the<BR>
> idea of a resource beyond conferences would be stepping out of bounds, if<BR>
> you will, so thank you for calling that out. I still love the idea of a<BR>
> targeted WordCamp, but I know that for myself (and probably for a lot of us<BR>
> working for educational institutions), the time/money/ability to travel to a<BR>
> conference is very limited. Since there seems to be a lot of interest in<BR>
> sharing information, why not start with a site and keep the goal of a<BR>
> WordCamp in mind? Should we start a new e-mail thread to clarify?<BR>
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