Lightning Talk submission for #OpenEd19
Update from #OpenEd: Slides uploaded
Session will be in Aurora AB at 2pm on Wednesday October 31, 2019
Update: Roundtable accepted.
Following review by the Program Committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submission entitled ‘Setting up your Connected Courses site in 5 minutes‘ has been accepted for presentation as a Lightning Talk (5 minutes).
This one is on me. I will need to curate the content and rehearse to make this work well in 5 minutes.
Submission Text:
The use of RSS feed aggregators like FeedWordPress has been in use for many course sites over the years including DS106, ETMOOC, and
The You Show”. The best resource for how to setup your syndication destination or planet site is Alan Levine’s five part blog post series “Building Connected Courses: Feed WordPress 101“. Despite the age of this resource (five years now) it is still an excellent resource for setting up a connected course teaching resource.
I have personally been adapting this setup since 2015 for a total of twenty two courses and counting. The setup requires some technical knowledge as well as maintenance to ensure the archived sites stay active and visible.
I use the main site as the full course site including syllabus, assignments and syndication of student submissions. It is important to note that student submissions are hosted on their own sites and this system allows syndication of all work in a single location. This is the key feature in this system: giving students ownership of their data and work. Other features provided by this setup is an open platform allowing co-learning within the course as well as any others observing or interacting with the course either by design or happenstance. Yes, this is a classic setup for a cMOOC.
In this lightning talk I will briefly show why I use this configuration for my classes, what changes that I have made to my own setup and changes that I plan to support shifting needs of my students and myself.
References
- DS106
- Building Connected Courses: Feed WordPress 101
- ETMOOC (Educational Technology MOOC) blog hub
- The You Show
- Ken’s Courses, my inventory of open courses setup in a connected courses format.
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Thank you so much for taking time to be there. Your being there made me smile, it was good knowing there was someone in the room that understood the “why” of this. #OpenEd19
De nada amigo – un placer! me encanta estar connectada contigo! #OpenEd19
Great lighting talk. WordPress is so easy to launch. I wish there were more themes that better supported webmentions for WordPress. found what we had to do was use IndieWeb theme but then also page builder so people could make their sites look the way they want