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This is the firehose, all external content syndicated into the site.

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This has been a tough post for me to develop because of the layers of complexity that are emerging as I look at and reflect on the Thought Vectors cMOOC. I want to remind the reader that my reflections on the VCU cMOOC focuses primarily on how faculty learn, how faculty collaborate, how faculty innovate, and […]

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creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by cathywitch This is part 1 of 5 in a series of posts for Building Connected Courses: Feed WordPress 101 »» Basic Concepts of Syndication «« – and what to think about even before you touch that WordPress thing Installing and Setting up Feed WordPress – Minimal settings, and planning the way content is sliced, diced, and recombined Feeding the Machine – How to get RSS feeds into the aggregator without losing a finger Some Feed Magic – Optional ways to improve feeds from sites such as flickr, twitter, etc, creating a twitter archive, RSS Feed TLC A Few More Tricks – leveraging categories, adding attribution, setting featured images Why Bother? If you have gone this far, you’ve likely already made a decision to run a course or community in a distributed manner. Why would you do this when your institution […]

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This is the first in a series of posts meant as a guide for almost anyone to create a WordPress site that operates as a networked hub for content created elsewhere. This is the engine, the Jim Groom Syndication Bus that drives ds106, the Open Digital Storytelling course/community/space. It is intended primarily for Connected Courses, which is intended to be offered in October-November 2014 as an open course in how to create open courses. I have built several of these sites in the last few years, after learning how it works with ds106, such as ETMOOC (Educational Technology MOOC), Project Community (The Hague University of Applied Science), Harvard Future of Learning Institute, rmooc (Thompson Rivers University), and most recently Thought Vectors in Concept Space (UNIV 200 at VCU). All of these sites are different, themes, pupose, kinds of syndicated content, but they are all are powered by WordPress and the […]