Today, Matt Meyers, Erin Long, and myself flooded the zone at the CIC CIO Tech Forum. I gave a broad overview of the Blog platform at Penn State, followed by Erin and Matt digging deep into the examples of English 202C design and the Bio 12 Open Courseware, respectively. The overall take away was that there are a lot of uses for a flexible, lightweight publishing platform that sits in the center of the University.
Digital Publishing Presentation at CIC CIO Tech Forum #cictf09
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Brad manages the programming group in Education Technology Services.
Looks like a great slide deck! I'd be curious in the reactions of people ... I did check the twitter stream during/after the talk and the three of you seemed to perk the interest of some folks.
By the time I gave them my 'takeaways' I felt like a coach who had overdone his pep talk, as if I had just said, "Win one for the Gipper"....for the 12th time in 45 minutes. Brad, I really enjoyed being a part of this presentation and look forward to expanding the 'uses' discussions with the projects we are doing in Liberal Arts 101 and Biology 12 (the big one).
There was some perking, yes. I think the fact that we have not built this blogging platform in isolation, but built in on top of existing infrastructure, and also surrounded it with support, both technical and pedagogical is what grabbed people's attention. This is what has allowed us to see the "blog is many things" dream realized.