Tools 27 Jul 2007 02:31 pm
Bud Hunt was nice enough to throw up a test of the CommentPress theme that allows paragraph by paragraph commenting, and I posted some session descriptions I was thinking about for the Learning 2.0 Conference I’ll be at in Shanghai in September. Feel free to take the theme for a spin and offer up some feedback if you feel so inclined.
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I could see that others had posted to this, but I kept getting an error message when attempting to comment…I’ll try again later.
Another history teacher and I are playing around with it as a tool for annotating historical documents, here http://wikimarion.org/Annotation/ We’re very excited.
Pamela, there’s a bug for me when using Explorer, but Firefox is good. I reported it and they’ve got a fix that will be in v1.1.
[…] I saw Will Richardson’s post that Budd the Teacher had set up a working version of the Commentpress theme. I commented there a bit and generally played around, I had already set up a document themed version of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative (read more here), but while posting a comment on Bud’s installation of the theme an idea hit (possibly unoriginal, but what isn’t!): “Why don’t we locate a number of public domain books that folks are reading in their classes and publish them through a blog on our WordPress Multi-User installation as an extension of the library.” These books may be linked with a class, but the library “publishes them,” so to speak, and offers additional resources on the works which in turn might foster an active community of collaboratively reading, commenting, and discussing a number of books in a distributed fashion. […]
[…] I saw Will Richardson’s post that Budd the Teacher had set up a working version of the Commentpress theme. I commented there a bit and generally played around, I had already set up a document themed version of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative (read more here), but while posting a comment on Bud’s installation of the theme an idea hit (possibly unoriginal, but what isn’t!): “Why don’t we locate a number of public domain books that folks are reading in their classes and publish them through a blog on our WordPress Multi-User installation as an extension of the library.” These books may be linked with a class, but the library “publishes them,” so to speak, and offers additional resources on the works which in turn might foster an active community of collaboratively reading, commenting, and discussing a number of books in a distributed fashion. […]