[wp-edu] Educational Focused WordCamp?

Thu Sep 9 23:17:54 UTC 2010

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.

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Helen Hou-Sandi (MM¹08)
Web Developer, Eastman School of Music
ESM 35A

From: Jeff VanDrimmelen <jeffvand at unc.edu>
Reply-To: <jeffvand at unc.edu>, <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:29:57 -0500
To: "wp-edu at lists.automattic.com" <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Educational Focused WordCamp?

I kind of like wp-edu.org <http://wp-edu.org> .  I don't mind typing -'s. :)
 I have never been a fan of bleeding things together like we tend to do in
web land. 

I just took a look at the wpmued.org <http://wpmued.org>  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.

~Jeff

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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Helen Hou <hhou at esm.rochester.edu> wrote:
> It¹s true, saying ³double you pee dash ee dee you² is awkward, but I think it
> might be the more appropriate option in that it doesn¹t 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-²deprecated name space.²
> 
> -- 
> Helen Hou-Sandi (MM¹08)
> Web Developer, Eastman School of Music
> ESM 35A
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> From: Jay Collier <jay.collier at thecompass.com
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> Reply-To: <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com <http://wp-edu@lists.automattic.com> >
> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:57:15 -0400
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> To: <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com <http://wp-edu@lists.automattic.com> >
> Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Educational Focused WordCamp?
> 
> I just took a look at <wp-edu.org <http://wp-edu.org>  <http://wp-edu.org/> >
> without the hyphen: <http://wpedu.org <http://wp-edu.org/> >. Using that
> domain, we'd have to be always repeating "hyphen" in conversation ;) Poor
> typists would wonder when we started doing auto-translation.
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> 
> <http://dev.wpmued.org/> seems to have an established function and sounds as
> if it is focused on MU.
> 
> Also available (with neighbors):
> 
> wplearning.org <http://wplearning.org>  <http://wplearning.org>
>  (http://wplearning.com)
> wplearn.net <http://wplearn.net>  <http://wplearn.net>  (http://wplearn.com,
> http://wplearn.org)    
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> On Sep 9, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Jeff VanDrimmelen wrote:
> 
>> If the site already exists out there, that's great.  I'd love to contribute.
>>  If not, can we use wp-edu.org <http://wp-edu.org>  <http://wp-edu.org/> ?
>>  It is available.  I'm just not sure we that is okay.  
>> 
>> ~Jeff
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>> Jeff VanDrimmelen MA, CMBA
>> Instructional Technologist, Educational Technology
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>> Office of Arts & Sciences Information Services
>> University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>> CB 3056, 07 Howell Hall
>> Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3056
>> 919.530-0698 (Direct Line)
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>> Check my calendar and chat with me - http://oasis.unc.edu/people/jeff
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>> <http://web.unc.edu/> .
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>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com
>> <http://jane@automattic.com> > wrote:
>>>   Didn't Jim Groom start a site a while back where ed people were
>>> posting what they're doing with WP/MU/BP in academic settings?
>>> j
>>> 
>>> On 9/9/10 5:15 PM, Helen Hou wrote:
>>>> > That's where I'm hung up a little bit as well, actually. I knew that the
>>>> > idea of a resource beyond conferences would be stepping out of bounds, if
>>>> > you will, so thank you for calling that out. I still love the idea of a
>>>> > targeted WordCamp, but I know that for myself (and probably for a lot of
>>>> us
>>>> > working for educational institutions), the time/money/ability to travel
>>>> to a
>>>> > conference is very limited. Since there seems to be a lot of interest in
>>>> > sharing information, why not start with a site and keep the goal of a
>>>> > WordCamp in mind? Should we start a new e-mail thread to clarify?
>>>> >
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