This week, along with many local councils, East Lothian reluctantly took the decision to close all its schools in the face of unprecedented severe weather. It wasn’t long, though, before staff started to use their eduBuzz school blogs to post updates for their classes. And it’s been interesting to see how that has developed over [...]
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What might take-up of WordPress across a 40-school local authority look like? October 2010 web server summary stats for East Lothian‘s eduBuzz.org system (visitors and page views) show that the current levels of use this year, a traditionally quieter time, are already similar to the last school year’s peak period of May/June. The pattern each year has been similar, with usage at this [...]
How easy is is to post to an Edubuzz blog from inside Edubuzz Google Apps? This document has been created in the Edubuzz Google Docs system, and I’m testing to see if I can publish it directly to my Edubuzz WordPress MU blog using the Google Apps “Post to blog” feature. The screen below shows [...]
It’s become even easier to get publishing on eduBuzz.org following today’s upgrade to Version 1.5.1 of its WordPress MU software. The interface redesign is the result of a lot of work by the WordPress community, including extensive usability testing. First impressions are good, but we’ll need to do some checks to see how students and [...]
I’ve written a note on how to do this, which is on a separate page. edubuzz.org was one of the early WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) sites. It started off with Version 1.0 Release Candidate 4 of the WPMU software. The way WPMU encoded tables within the database changed in later versions, and needed changed. This has [...]
Understanding content tagging is an essential skill for effective use of a wide range of internet tools. WordPress blogs now, in addition to Categories, offer a powerful set of tagging tools. But what exactly is the difference? I’ve now mentioned the addition of the new tagging functionality, briefly in passing, to a few edubuzz bloggers. [...]
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