Comments on: Micro Comment Away http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jimgroom » Commentpress, Interactive Libraries, and WPMu http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/comment-page-1/#comment-28085 jimgroom » Commentpress, Interactive Libraries, and WPMu Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:46:45 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/#comment-28085 [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: Commentpress, Interactive Libraries, and WPMu at bavatuesdays http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/comment-page-1/#comment-28078 Commentpress, Interactive Libraries, and WPMu at bavatuesdays Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:02:16 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/#comment-28078 [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: Rob http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/comment-page-1/#comment-28006 Rob Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:42:15 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/#comment-28006 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. 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.

]]> By: Pamela Carr http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/comment-page-1/#comment-28005 Pamela Carr Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:33:19 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/micro-comment-away/#comment-28005 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. 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.

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