Our teaching case, using WordPress as a simple content management system for small business, has been nominated for the Best Teaching Case Award at the 2008 WITS Technology Instruction in Business Curriculum Competition. Nice! The…
Slides from my talk on “Web 2.0, Open Source, and the Mass Production of Knowledge: Why Collective Platforms Might Hold the Key to Understanding a Knowledge-Based Economy” are now available. Thanks to the USF Faculty…
While WordCamp 2008 attendees were likely impressed with the huge number of page views (6.5 billion per year – roughly one for every person on the planet) and monthly unique visitors (up to 160 million…
I’ve developed a teaching module that helps students start to create a simple business web site using WordPress. The students launch a new site on a web host via an install script, come up with…
I’m tired of out of date, expensive textbooks. I’m tired of fighting copyright fair use battles. I’m tired of students being trapped in my class, when other students and teachers around the world are grappling…
At USF, we’ve been using great open source software platforms like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and phpBB in the classroom for some time. What’s really interesting about these open source platforms is that you can start…
The CIT (Center for Instructional Technology) Innovation Award celebrates the “excellent use of technology in education” at USF. One of the 2007 awards honored the use of wikis, open source, and podcasting at the business…