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WordPress University
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WordPress, an open source web publishing platform, has proven to be a robust and flexible tool able to meet a variety of web application needs on college campuses. Multi-user blogging platforms, campus newsletters, course project sites and central event calendars are just a few of the ways WordPress is being deployed in higher education. At WordPress University we’ll explore case studies and examples of how WordPress is adapted to meet these various needs. The day’s schedule will include opportunities to share and explore ideas with fellow attendees that can be applied to WordPress implementations in their home environments.
This is not a technical, hands-on workshop, and while some technical web programming details will be discussed, the program is designed to appeal to people with a range of experiences creating web sites and working with on-line web 2.0 and social networking tools. Some experience designing or editing web pages, managing a web site, or working on support of a web-based application will be helpful, but not essential.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Randall Rode of Yale University
Date/Time:
Thursday, April 08, 2010
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
1125 Boston Providence Turnpike
Norwood, MA
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Special instructions:
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $130
Non-Members: $255
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 9:10am Introduction - Welcome Remarks
Speaker: Randall Rode, Yale University
9:10am - 9:50am Crossing Web Boundaries with WordPress
Speaker: Jay Collier, Web Communications, Bates College
A decade ago, the higher education Web experience was segmented into walled gardens -- the public Web site, the course management system, online transactions, alumni communities, events calendars. The legacy of that structure was that our lifelong relationships with the college were interrupted as we students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni moved from system to system.
The next-generation online ecosystem will let us re-organize these experiences, allowing for deepening engagement throughout our lives: from prospective student to elder alum. How will software like WordPress fit in? How can we evaluate, select, and configure systems to support our users' needs, rather than the other way around?
9:50am - 10:20am Group Activity #1
10:20am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 11:00am Getting Creative with WordPress Plug-ins: Adaptive Re-use and Growing Your Own
Speaker: Ioannis Yessios, Manager of Web Technologies, Instructional Technology Group, Yale University
Yes, even non-programmers can have success digging into the magic behind WordPress plug-ins. This session will look at a couple of plug-ins used for instructional support at Yale, and how they were developed and adapted to meet the needs of faculty and classroom projects. The goal is to demystify how plug-ins work, provide examples of how they are used to meet instructional needs, and point to resources for further explorations.
11:00am - 11:45 More Than Blogging -- Adapting WordPress to Campus Needs
Speakers:
Casey Bisson, Plymouth State University
Claudia Snell, Nichols College
WordPress powering your campus events calendar? How about WordPress running your university's web content management system? WordPress has grown in capabilities well beyond its humble roots as a piece of blogging software. This talk will feature WordPress-powered examples from Plymouth State and Nichols College, with thoughts on why they chose WordPress, and how they put it all together.
11:45am - 12:45am Lunch
12:45pm - 1:15pm Future of WordPress
Speaker: Jane Wells, User Experience Lead, WordPress | Automattic
What is on the horizon for WordPress and the WordPress community over the coming months and years? Jane Wells from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and a primary contributor to WordPress’ ongoing development plans, talks about the latest happenings and directions.
1:15pm - 1:45pm Group Activity #2
1:45pm – 2:00pm Break
2:00pm – 2:40pm WordPress as Social Platform: Buddypress and the CUNY Academic Commons
Speakers:
Boone Gorges, Instructional Designer, CUNY Queens College
Matthew Gold, Project Director of the CUNY Academic Commons
The CUNY Academic Commons project aims to provide a rich and flexible online collaborative space for the faculty, staff and graduate students of the City University of New York. In this presentation, we'll discuss how BuddyPress provides a framework for the collaborative space, as well as the work we've done combining BuddyPress and WordPress with other software platforms in order to give our users as many ways as possible to produce, share, and connect.
2:40pm – 3:00pm Wrap-up / Closing Remarks / Evaluation / End
Speaker:
Boone Gorges
Boone Gorges is Lead Developer of the CUNY Academic Commons. He is the Instructional Designer at Queens College and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Speaker:
Casey Bisson
Casey Bisson is an information architect at Plymouth State University. His work on Scriblio (formerly WPopac), a WordPress-based library catalog and digital archives system, earned a 2006 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Technology Collaboration. Casey is the author of the ALA's Open Source Software for Libraries, is a frequent presenter at library and technology conferences, and blogs about his passion for libraries, roadside oddities and hiking in New Hampshire’s White Mountains at MaisonBisson.com.
Speaker:
Jane Wells
Jane Wells is the user experience lead for WordPress, and has worked in the web industry for 10 years. Employed by Automattic, she works on diverse products such as WordPress.com, After the Deadline, Intense Debate, PollDaddy and Akismet. In addition to her work as part of the WordPress core team, Jane organizes the open source community and works to broaden contribution opportunities within the project.
Speaker:
Jay Collier
Jay Collier is Web communications manager at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he develops strategies for online engagement and produces, edits, and manages Web initiatives including the recently-redeveloped Home and Views sites. He has worked in media production and management at Dartmouth, MIT, and WGBH and is interested in innovative learning communities that value integrative thinking and principled social action.
Speaker:
Matthew Gold
Matthew Gold is Project Director of the CUNY Academic Commons. He teaches in the English Department of the New York City College of Technology and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate Program at CUNY Graduate Center.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Sheraton Norwood, the conference location.
To make reservations contact the Sheraton Norwood at 781-769-7900 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block".
The room block for April 8, will be released on March 18, 2010. Standard queen guest rooms are available for $130 per night.
Technical Requirements:
Materials, including audio from the sessions, are available at this address: http://rodeworks.com/tag/wpuni10/
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