Category: WordPress
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Academic Publishing and Relevance
Since finishing my PhD I’ve applied for five different tenure-track faculty positions. I’ve been invited to interview for just one of those. I may apply for another position sometime down the road, but I’m currently very happy teaching 4th & 5th graders as a STEM teacher, occasionally teaching teachers as an educational consultant/speaker, and regularly…
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Mobile Writing on the Go with KidBlog and WordPress
The evening of December 18, 2013, I shared an online presentation for the “Digitizing Writing Wednesday Webinars Series” titled, “Mobile Writing on the Go with KidBlog and WordPress.” The archived video from the Adobe Connect webinar is now available! My presentation slides are available on SlideShare. Miguel Guhlin collected a variety of show notes on…
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Why I Switched My WordPress Web Host from WP Engine to Site5
Over the past two weeks I’ve reluctantly completed the arduous and stressful task of migrating 30+ websites to a new web host. Most of these sites run WordPress. In this post, I’ll share some of my lessons learned and the specific reasons why, after 8 months as customer of WP Engine, I switched to Site5…
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Create a Personal Publication Archive with Open Journal Systems (OJS)
A couple years ago I started looking for a free content management system I could use to archive and share publications I’ve written in my educational career. Since I’ve used WordPress extensively to publish content online, I was first drawn to “Annotum: an open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress.” I…
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Self-Hosting Oral History Audio (or Lectures) with Free Podcast Generator Software
Radio shows and audiobooks are wonderful resources for learning, particularly for people with commutes or who like to walk / jog / exercise regularly. There is a “texture” and communicative power to the spoken word which isn’t captured fully in written texts. Pre-recorded (asynchronous) audio recordings provide fantastic flexibility for listeners, who can start and…
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Restore or Move a Large mySQL Database with mySQLDumper
This afternoon was an abnormally geeky one for me, but thankfully successful. I don’t normally wrangle with mySQL databases, but today I had to. At LONG last I’m completing the migration of my websites to a new web host, and the last two sites I’ve needed to backup and restore are my custom URL shortener…
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Great Posts on Interactive Writing (Blogging)
This evening I shared some ideas about interactive writing in a webinar series on digital writing hosted by Texas technology directors Miguel Guhlin and Diana Benner. These are a few of the links shared by Miguel and Colleen Rose (a participant from Northwestern Ontario) during our session. If you use a free offline web reading…
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Learning About Posting YouTube Videos to WordPress, Windows RT Copy Paste, and iMovie for iPhone
This afternoon my 10 year old, Rachel, showed me a video she’d found on YouTube on the amazing channel AsapScience. My wife and I gave her a Windows RT tablet for her birthday in September, and she’s enjoyed using it not only to watch YouTube videos (and subscribe to them with the Google Account we…
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Migrating from Podcast Generator to WordPress and Podlove
In December of 2010, I created “Fuel 4 Educational Change Agents” as a secondary podcast channel to complement my primary “Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcast” channel. I created this secondary channel of “no-edit” and lightly-edited audio recordings using the free, open source software program Podcast Generator, which I learned about doing research for…