Category: open source
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WordPress 3.01 Export Problems
Warning: This is a geeky WordPress call for help! Anyone have suggestions for how to successfully export posts from WordPress 3.01? This feature isn’t working as advertised for me. I’m wanting to export just posts in 1 category so I can import feeds into BookBrewer. I can’t use just my site feed, even for the…
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WordPress Site Caching with Amazon S3 & CloudFront
If you use WordPress as a content management system (CMS) on your website, it can be helpful to install a “caching” plugin which serves saved/cached webpages to visitors instead of making dynamic requests to the mySQL database connected to your site every time a page is visited. Once you’ve published a page or updated it,…
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Merge PDF files (for free) with PDFsam
PDFsam is a free, open source software program which permits users to both merge and split PDF files. After downloading and running PDFsam, to merge separate PDF files into a single document: Click Merge/Extract under the Plugins menu in the left sidebar. Click the ADD button in the upper right corner of the program and…
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Creating a course audio lecturecast (podcast) with Podcast Generator
Podcast Generator is an open source content management solution specifically customized for podcasting.* Since it’s open source, it’s free but you need to have access to a webserver supporting PHP scripts to use it. It permits users to upload audio files directly using a web browser, and share them as podcasts within a created RSS…
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MediaWiki spam cleanup recap and tutorial
The best way to learn how to use a new technology tool is to find or create a current, authentic purpose for using it. That is my present situation with MediaWiki (the free and open source wiki platform which powers WikiPedia and many other wiki sites worldwide) and our Storychasers’ wiki. In this post, I’ll…
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Alan November’s website was hacked
If this can happen to Alan November, it can happen to any of us using WordPress as a blogging platform on a self-hosted website. Vulnerabilities like this are not limited to WordPress, however, they can happen to any website. YouTube was hacked on July 4th this year, and Justin Bieber’s videos seemed to get the…
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Online video editing with Kaltura and Stroome
Following up on my browser-based video editing experiments with Jaycut earlier in the week, this evening I used the website Stroome.com to edit a short, four minute video about an outreach project of our local church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Stroome uses the open source Kaltura video editor, and this was my first time to use…
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Hyperlinked sliding image banner in WordPress
I need to update the WordPress theme Karen Montgomery and I are using on our Powerful Ingredients 4 Blended Learning site, to make it easier / clearer for visitors to get information about our “Digital Magic Tricks Workshop” for educators and register directly for the June 21-22 workshop we’re planning to offer in Oklahoma City…
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Let’s build openly licensed, digital curriculum together – but where?
This week I’ll be brainstorming with other Oklahoma educators working on a Race To The Top (RTTT) federal grant application. When it comes to technology integration and STEM, one of the best ideas I can suggest is providing opportunities for teachers to build digital curriculum together. If these online curriculum materials are published on the…