Directions At OLT

About us

http://olt.ubc.ca/about/

Platforms

• UBC Blogs

Notable blogs featured on home page of the site

• Courseblogs such as: http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/, http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept09/, http://blogs.ubc.ca/span365/, http://blogs.ubc.ca/libr551/

• The Library is of course doing great things...

• UBC Blogsquad - partnering with Student Services

• http://blogs.ubc.ca/universitypublishing/, http://blogs.ubc.ca/dean/, http://blogs.ubc.ca/lawlib/

Sites

http://leap.ubc.ca, http://celc.sites.olt.ubc.ca/, http://chcm.ubc.ca/, http://earlylearning.ubc.ca/, http://act.elearning.ubc.ca/, http://strategicplan.ubc.ca/, http://aboriginal.sites.olt.ubc.ca/ (private, in development), http://thischangedmypractice.com/

http://phylogame.org/

• assemble new image sets, or even games based on this framework: see the discussion

Blog system features

Mostly developed by wider WordPress community, but at least some bits of custom code

• CWL authentication

• • privacy controls for public, CWL-holders, or registered users (visibility and comments)
  • add users via widget or via custom screen
  • Section Widget - WordPress Plugin Award Winner

And a fairly wide array of plugins (our admin is very good at monitoring their effects on system performance)

Wiki

• http://wiki.ubc.ca

• CWL authentication

• private, standalone sites available HLWiki

• Wiki Ink plugin: http://frg.sites.olt.ubc.ca/ - gets its content from this wiki not to mention this wiki into this page.

• Extensions include WikiBooks

• Namespaces for courses, documentation, etc... Along with categories. Feedback?

• "transclusion" - or chunking page content into tiny wiki bits (don't call them objects, please) example

Future direction

Integration with BuddyPress to offer groups, personal profiles, threaded discussion - like at http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/