{"id":1987,"date":"2015-08-19T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T18:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/?page_id=1987"},"modified":"2015-08-19T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:14:50","slug":"assigned-readings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/assigned-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Assigned Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"random-accordion-id-529\" class=\"accordion-shortcode  \">\n<h3 ><a href=\"#week-1-0\" >Week 1<\/a><\/h3><div id=\"week-1-0\" class=\"accordian-shortcode-content \" ><div class='wiki-embed  wiki-target-url-not-set' rel='http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Documentation:TWP2015\/Readings\/Week_1'>\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"wiki-embed-shell wiki-embed-fragment-count-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-23e385af3e61df6706418567ad8ef6e6-0\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span id=\"What_is_Openness.3F\"><\/span><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"What_is_Openness?\">What is Openness?<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li>Christina has a blog post introducing openness generally and connecting it to open education, here: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2015\/04\/11\/what-is-open-education\/\">http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2015\/04\/11\/what-is-open-education\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Clint Lalonde has a great blog post on open as a noun, verb, adjective and attitude: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/clintlalonde.net\/2012\/10\/18\/open-is-a-noun-verb-adjective-and-an-attitude\/\">http:\/\/clintlalonde.net\/2012\/10\/18\/open-is-a-noun-verb-adjective-and-an-attitude\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tony Bates has a solid section on open education in his new book: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/10-4-open-education\/\">http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/10-4-open-education\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h3><span id=\"Definitions_of_.E2.80.9COpen.E2.80.9D_Related_to_Content\"><\/span><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Definitions_of_&ldquo;Open&rdquo;_Related_to_Content\">Definitions of &ldquo;Open&rdquo; Related to Content<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul><li>The &ldquo;open definition&rdquo;: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/opendefinition.org\/\">http:\/\/opendefinition.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wiley&rsquo;s 5 R&rsquo;s: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/opencontent.org\/definition\/\">http:\/\/opencontent.org\/definition\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The definition of &ldquo;free cultural works&rdquo;: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/freedomdefined.org\/Definition\">http:\/\/freedomdefined.org\/Definition<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christina has a long and probably too detailed post about the similarities and differences between &ldquo;open&rdquo; and &ldquo;free,&rdquo; which might be given in something like a &ldquo;for further study&rdquo; section: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2013\/08\/18\/open-and-free\/\">http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2013\/08\/18\/open-and-free\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-23e385af3e61df6706418567ad8ef6e6-1\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Open_Educational_Resources\">Open Educational Resources<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li>Hewlett Foundation definition: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hewlett.org\/programs\/education\/open-educational-resources\">http:\/\/www.hewlett.org\/programs\/education\/open-educational-resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li>FAQ on open textbooks by BCcampus: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/open-textbook-faq\/\">http:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/open-textbook-faq\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>free software definition: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-23e385af3e61df6706418567ad8ef6e6-2\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Open_Pedagogy\">Open Pedagogy<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li>David Wiley&rsquo;s 2013 post on open pedagogy: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/archives\/2975\">http:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/archives\/2975<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wiley&rsquo;s 2015 post on open pedagogy: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/archives\/3761\">http:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/archives\/3761<\/a><\/li>\n<li>archive of presentation on open pedagogy by BCcampus for 2015 open ed week has some good stuff--slides, google doc, blog post: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/2015\/02\/06\/open-webinars-for-open-education-week\/\">http:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/2015\/02\/06\/open-webinars-for-open-education-week\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-23e385af3e61df6706418567ad8ef6e6-3\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Open_Practice\">Open Practice<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li>Brian Lamb explores the possibilities of open educational practice as a re-alignment strategy in his post: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/abject.ca\/open-ends\/\">Open Ends?<\/a> (April, 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Sahana Chattopadhyay  discusses (in a blog post) what she (and others) call <i>working out loud<\/i>  as a practice for building a shared learning network: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/idreflections.blogspot.ca\/2015\/05\/working-out-loud-101-some-thoughts.html\">Working Out Loud 101\/Some Thoughts<\/a> (May, 2015)<\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-23e385af3e61df6706418567ad8ef6e6-4\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Connectivism\">Connectivism<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li>Dave Cormier videos on cMOOCs-- if you want an introdution to  cMOOCs<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;What is a MOOC&rdquo;? (actually focused on cMOOCs): <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;Success in a MOOC&rdquo;: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r8avYQ5ZqM0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r8avYQ5ZqM0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>cMOOCs and differences from &ldquo;xMOOCs&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>An informative chart explaining differences between cMOOCs &amp; xMOOCs: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu\/emc\/sites\/default\/files\/userfiles\/Greg\/xMOOCs%20vs.pdf\">http:\/\/emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu\/emc\/sites\/default\/files\/userfiles\/Greg\/xMOOCs%20vs.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jenny Mackness blog post: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/jennymackness.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/22\/cmoocs-and-xmoocs-key-differences\/\">https:\/\/jennymackness.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/22\/cmoocs-and-xmoocs-key-differences\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christina&rsquo;s blog post on what a cMOOC is like: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2013\/02\/21\/mooc-by-another-name\/\">http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2013\/02\/21\/mooc-by-another-name\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-23e385af3e61df6706418567ad8ef6e6-5\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Creative_Commons_licenses\">Creative Commons licenses<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li>This short \"course\" on CC licenses on P2PU has links to nice videos and brief explanations of what these licenses are all about, the different kinds, etc. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/p2pu.org\/en\/groups\/get-cc-savvy\">https:\/\/p2pu.org\/en\/groups\/get-cc-savvy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Creative Commons license chooser: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/choose\/\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/choose\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Creative Commons page explaining the licenses: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-23e385af3e61df6706418567ad8ef6e6-6\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-6 wikiembed-fragment-last\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Open_Course_Design\">Open Course Design<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/mfeldstein.com\/massive-open-course-design\/\">Massive, Open and Course Design<\/a>: Michael Feldstein (2013): nice post about goals, motivation and course design.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/firstmonday.org\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/3333\/3070\">Transparency as a catalyst for interaction and participation in open learning environments<\/a>: Thomas P. Mackey (2011): a little dated but much good here including 7 characteristics of transparent design -.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Downes\/design-elements-in-a-personal-learning-environment\">Design Elements in a Personal Learning Environment:<\/a> Stephen Downes (2015)<\/li><\/ul><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20260516120504\nCache expiry: 86400\nReduced expiry: false\nComplications: [show&#8208;toc]\nCPU time usage: 0.010 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.012 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 23\/1000000\nPost&#8208;expand include size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 2\/100\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0\/20\nUnstrip post&#8208;expand size: 0\/5000000 bytes\n--><!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    0.000      1 -total\n--><!-- Saved in parser cache with key mediawiki:pcache:idhash:61505-0!canonical and timestamp 20260516120504 and revision id 371814. Rendering was triggered because: page-view\n --><\/div>\n<!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><span class=\"wiki-embed-source\">source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Documentation:TWP2015\/Readings\/Week_1\">http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Documentation:TWP2015\/Readings\/Week_1<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<h3 ><a href=\"#week-2-1\" >Week 2<\/a><\/h3><div id=\"week-2-1\" class=\"accordian-shortcode-content \" ><div class='wiki-embed  wiki-target-url-not-set' rel='http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Documentation:TWP2015\/Readings\/Week_2'>\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"wiki-embed-shell wiki-embed-fragment-count-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-fdb8090f838a988d88ef576a26b22f23-0\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"WordPress_101\">WordPress 101<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/net.educause.edu\/ir\/library\/pdf\/ELI7076.pdf\">Educause's 7 Things You Should Know About WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/wordpress-a-better-lms\/23050\">WordPress a Better LMS<\/a> - Brief overview of what makes WordPress a good teaching &amp; learning platform.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/etec.ctlt.ubc.ca\/510wiki\/WordPress_as_an_Educational_Tool\">WordPress as an Educational Tool<\/a> - Overview and introduction on using WordPress in education. Developed as part of UBC's ETEC510 course. Plug-in section is a bit out of date.<\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-fdb8090f838a988d88ef576a26b22f23-1\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Affordances_of_Educational_Technology\">Affordances of Educational Technology<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/visuals\/shared\/er\/extras\/2014\/ReclaimingInnovation\/default.html\">Reclaiming Innovation<\/a> - Brian Lamb &amp; Jim Groom's Educause article that explores the question \"What goals and strategies should we be pursuing if we want to reclaim innovation as a positive force as higher education continues to engage with digital and networked technologies?\"<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/hackeducation.com\/2014\/11\/04\/programmed-instruction-versus-the-programmable-web\/\">The Future of Education: Programmed or Programmable<\/a> Audrey Watters explores the future of Education and Ed-Tech: \"To transform education and education technology to make it \"future-facing&rdquo; means we do have to address what exactly we think education should look like now and in the future. Do we want programmed instruction? Do we want teaching machines? Do we want videotaped lectures? Do we want content delivery systems? Or do we want education that is more student-centered, more networked-focused.\"<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/hackeducation.com\/2014\/09\/05\/beyond-the-lms-newcastle-university\/\">Beyond the LMS<\/a> - Audrey Waters argues that education technology should move beyond the LMS model: \"Ed-tech must not be about building digital walls around students and content and courses. We have, thanks to the Web, an opportunity to build connections, build networks, not walls \"<\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-fdb8090f838a988d88ef576a26b22f23-2\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span id=\"Discussions.2C_Assessments.2C_Interactions.2C_Contributions\"><\/span><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Discussions,_Assessments,_Interactions,_Contributions\">Discussions, Assessments, Interactions, Contributions<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/williamwolff.org\/composingspaces\/teaching-students-how-to-create-meaningful-tags\/\">Teaching Students How To Create Meaningful Tags<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-fdb8090f838a988d88ef576a26b22f23-3\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-3 wikiembed-fragment-last\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span id=\"Issues.2C_Challenges.2C_Opportunities\"><\/span><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Issues,_Challenges,_Opportunities\">Issues, Challenges, Opportunities<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Copyright\">Copyright<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/copyright.ubc.ca\/files\/2015\/04\/Open-Course-and-Educational-Resource-Guidelines-21-04-2015.pdf\">UBC Copyright Office Guide to Open Courses and OER<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/copyright.ubc.ca\/guidelines-and-resources\/support-guides\/creative-commons\/\">UBC Copyright Office Guide to Creative Commons<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Student_Privacy\">Student Privacy<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/ltlatnd.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/19\/taking-steps-to-respect-student-privacy-in-public-work\/\">Chris Clark of the Kaneb Center at the University of Notre Dame on respecting student privacy in public work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/bavatuesdays.com\/you-cant-spell-ferpa-without-fear\/\">You Can't Spell FERPA Without FEAR<\/a>: Jim Groom explores how his WordPress service respect's student privacy: \"by giving students their own spaces online wherein they control their online identities, decide what they will share and won&rsquo;t, and take control over the disclosure of their own data we are more FERPA compliant than any other system on campus\".<\/li><\/ul><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20260516122447\nCache expiry: 86400\nReduced expiry: false\nComplications: [show&#8208;toc]\nCPU time usage: 0.005 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.006 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 17\/1000000\nPost&#8208;expand include size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 2\/100\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0\/20\nUnstrip post&#8208;expand size: 0\/5000000 bytes\n--><!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    0.000      1 -total\n--><!-- Saved in parser cache with key mediawiki:pcache:idhash:61514-0!canonical and timestamp 20260516122447 and revision id 371320. Rendering was triggered because: page-view\n --><\/div>\n<!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><span class=\"wiki-embed-source\">source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Documentation:TWP2015\/Readings\/Week_2\">http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Documentation:TWP2015\/Readings\/Week_2<\/a><\/span>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 ><a href=\"#week-3-2\" >Week 3<\/a><\/h3><div id=\"week-3-2\" class=\"accordian-shortcode-content \" ><div class='wiki-embed  wiki-target-url-not-set' rel='http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Documentation:TWP2015\/Readings\/Week_3'>\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/2009\/08\/14\/pedagogy-and-the-class-blog\/\">Pedagogy and the Class Blog<\/a>-Mark Sample shares a simple rubric and discussed how assessment can drive participation in a course blog using WordPress.<\/li>\n<li>Vanderbilt's Centre for Teaching shares a resource resource on <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/guides-sub-pages\/blogs\">course blogging, discussion boards<\/a>, assessment and student expectations about technology and learning.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2011\/08\/10\/how-blogging-can-catalyze-learning.aspx\">'Narrate, Curate, Share': How Blogging Can Catalyze Learning<\/a> Description by Gardner Cambell about some of the ways and reasons for using blogs in teaching and learning.<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"wiki-embed-shell wiki-embed-fragment-count-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-359132fd5002131aebbc4fcb1fbd0eec-0\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"WordPress_Functionality\">WordPress Functionality<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/2014\/07\/14\/feed-wordpress-101-the-basics\/\">Feed WordPress 101 - the Basics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/getting-students-to-do-the-reading-pre-class-quizzes-on-wordpress\/23066\/Getting\">Students to Do the Reading: Pre-Class Quizzes on WordPress<\/a> - an older post from Derek Bruff on using WP comments as pre-class quizzes<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elegantthemes.com\/blog\/tips-tricks\/how-to-use-wordpress-as-a-learning-management-system\">How To Use WordPress As A Learning Management System<\/a> - Long overview (somewhat vendor-ish) article on using WordPress as an LMS]<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.umwdomains.com\/wordpress\/getting-started\/10-ways-to-use-umw-blogs%7C\">10 Ways to Use Blogs in Teaching and Learning from UMW<\/a> Overview from the University of Mary Washington about ways of using blogs in teaching and learning. Includes some great examples.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/make-your-wordpress-site-more-accessible\/54631\">WordPress and Accessibility <\/a> This post from the Chronicle of Higher Education, discusses ways of making your WordPress course or blog site more accessible. This is an important consideration when teaching with WordPress .<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/2015\/04\/25\/password-protecting-pdfs-on-course-blogs\/\">Password Protecting PDFs on Course Blogs<\/a>: nice how to from Mark Sample at Davidson College.<\/li><\/ul><h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"WordPress_ePortfolios\">WordPress ePortfolios<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelseery.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wordpress-for-E-Portfolios.pdf\">Using WordPress for Educational ePortfolios<\/a> Guide to setting up an educational ePortfolio using WordPress<\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-359132fd5002131aebbc4fcb1fbd0eec-1\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-1 wikiembed-fragment-last\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Assessing_Your_Open_Course\">Assessing Your Open Course<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<ul><li>Stephen Downes' <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/halfanhour.blogspot.ca\/2013\/03\/evaluating-mooc.html\">Evaluating a MOOC<\/a>. 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