EdupunkEnterprise

About

Brian: http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian

Novak: http://blogs.ubc.ca/novak

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

• We may not have been the first to host blogs and wikis as campus services, but we're in the mix... And we have the scars to prove it.

EduPunk?

• Brian was there when EduPunk was born. A date with Jim Groom at Freddy's (a bar which is slated for destruction, to make room for a stadium)

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• Bavatuesdays, The Glass Bees - "Corporations are selling us back our ideas, innovations, and visions for an exorbitant price. I want them all back, and I want them now!"

It generated an ungodly number of blog posts, and garnered a surprising amount of attention outside the world of education.

Blogs

• 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/

• UBC Blogsquad - partnering with Student Services

• http://blogs.ubc.ca/universitypublishing/

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

Sites

We're going full-blown CMS baby!

You can setup your UBC site in minutes. We support UBC's common look and feel as a theme. Partnering with Public Affairs and IT on delivering a UBC-wide CMS.

Some of our 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

WP setup

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. WikiEmbed.

• 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

Enterprising Edupunk

Let's count the Edupunk vs Enterprise dilemmas that Novak and Brian argue about:

• Setup, maintenance - easy to do, not so easy to do well... economies of scale need to be thought through

• Integration (we love UBC's central IT, we love VM, we love CWL)

• What do the pieces do? (MW as resource management vs WP as presentation tool,...)

• Complexity and structure vs being light-weight and user-friendly

• buy-in, support and training (EduPunk cred ain't enough)

• stats and reporting: who is using it? for what? Critical for making the case for the importance of service, determining trends.

• Don't be afraid to say no. Though an EduPunk hero might disagree...

• more here: Novak's post

The future

• Integration with BuddyPress to offer more personalization, interaction on multiple levels (friends, forums, blogs, groups) example at http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/

• Jeff Miller, David Vogt, David Porter pushing boundaries with BuddyPress as LMS