February 28, 2007

Migrating to WordPress

Well, now that I'm at about 100 entries in my blog, it's time to look towards upgrading to more functionality. One of the best free options still out there for serving your own blog seems to be WordPress, so we'll be moving to that software soon. I plan to go through and archive anything of lasting relevance such as my book notes. These will be made available again when we switch to the new system.

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February 22, 2007

Can we talk here?

Today, I began my entry into Podcasting with ION's first episode of Frontiers of Distance Education. While the process of recording audio and putting it on the Internet isn't that hard, it still takes a lot of time to edit the audio together, create necessary openings and voice over narrations, and get the audio volume correct. What really takes time though, and what seems left out from presentations is how much time it can take to code the xml for syndicating the feed. There aren't really any good free software packages out there that I could find to generate the xml automatically from a database. Also, I'm still figuring out how to get the podcast into iTunes. So while it is in principle rather simple, don't expect to get everything up in a few minutes unless you are using an external host service and pay software.

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February 21, 2007

Ohio University in Second Life

"Ohio University is the first university in Ohio and one of just a few universities in the United States, including Harvard and Princeton, who have launched functioning campuses in Second Life..."

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