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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>At Macaulay Honors College, we've been using Wordpress for a variety of class blogs for about 5 years--with good success. <BR>
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This year we rolled out WPMU for our eportfolios for students--and they're seeing a lot of use just in the past couple of months. My original thought was that these would be used by individual students just for eportfolio-type projects, but the variety of options has exploded and we're seeing personal blogs, class blogs, teaching blogs by our tech fellows, and I'm getting ready to start a meta blog--a portfolio of portfolios--myself.<BR>
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Dave was kind enough to include us on his list (thanks, Dave!), but the more direct link than the one he has is here<BR>
<a href="http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios">http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios</a><BR>
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Joseph Ugoretz, PhD<BR>
Director of Technology and Learning<BR>
William E. Macaulay Honors College <BR>
at The City University of New York<BR>
35 West 67th St.<BR>
New York, NY 10023<BR>
212.729.2920 -- voice<BR>
917.865.1639 -- mobile<BR>
212.580.8130 -- fax<BR>
<a href="joseph.ugoretz@mhc.cuny.edu">joseph.ugoretz@mhc.cuny.edu</a><BR>
<a href="http://macaulay.cuny.edu">http://macaulay.cuny.edu</a><BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Dave Lester <<a href="davelester@gmail.com">davelester@gmail.com</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:20:59 -0500<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [wp-edu] Pimp your sites<BR>
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I recently blogged a list of 70 institutions of higher ed that are using or experimenting with WPMU (<a href="http://blog.davelester.org/2008/10/28/wordpress-multi-user-on-college-campuses/">http://blog.davelester.org/2008/10/28/wordpress-multi-user-on-college-campuses/</a>), and I've received over 20 comments suggesting additional installs and creative uses. You may want to check that out, and I'd welcome others to add their sites and continue building the resource.<BR>
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While some Higher Ed WPMU installs have flashy front-ends, there's growing interest among secondary educators using and experimenting with WordPress MU. We have a good contingent attending WordCamp Ed DC this weekend. Due to obvious privacy concerns given the age of their bloggers, they don't have the same public audience or packaging that an institution like UMW has (to my knowledge). Nevertheless, they should probably be mentioned in the PDF, and I'd be interested in who's doing what out there.<BR>
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Best,<BR>
Dave Lester<BR>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Douglas Hanna <<a href="doug@automattic.com">doug@automattic.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Mark,<BR>
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Great idea. As this topic develops, I'll add some of the favorites to<BR>
the showcase at WordPress.org. We have an education category over<BR>
there, but it definitely has room for expansion.<BR>
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Douglas Hanna<BR>
Automattic | WordPress.com<BR>
Blog: <a href="http://www.serviceuntitled.com">http://www.serviceuntitled.com</a><BR>
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