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• Elmer Masters 2:52 pm on October 31, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, plugin ( 11 ), Twitter ( 4 )   

  Seems like TT will post to Twitter OK, but is having no luck retrieving tweets for the widget.

   

• Elmer Masters 2:30 pm on October 31, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, plugin ( 11 ), Twitter ( 4 )   

  Banging around with the Twitter Tools v2.4 for WordPress trying to get it working again.

   

• Elmer Masters 3:38 pm on August 30, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, ECR ( 12 ), eLangdell ( 31 )   

  Building ECR Topic Sites 

  Here are the steps for creating ECR Topic sites. This should be a pretty detailed outline of what needs to be done.

  • Remove block on topic name
    • most “top level” subject names are reserved by the system.
  • Create Classcaster blog
  • Set theme to eLangdell
  • Configure theme
  • Activate plugins
    • Anthologize
    • Audio Plugin
    • Bulk Slug and Description update
    • Category import
    • Easy stats
    • Hackadelic sliding notes
    • Improved simpler CSS
    • Login redirect
    • My link order
    • WordPress video plugin
  • Convert topic grid into text formatted for category import
  • Paste text into category import, test to make sure it lays out properly and then add categories
  • Add “Press this” tool to browser bookmark bar, rename to match topic
  • Open subject outline page on CALI website
  • Follow link to each Lesson and use “Press this” tool to add Lesson description to blog. Link each Lesson to the category it matches
  • For podcasts, use the short tag to embed a payer linked to the MP3.
  • Break eLangdell casebooks for subject into chapters in Word
  • Publish each chapter to blog from inside of Word linking to appropriate category
  • Use db to locate appropriate cases for inclusion.
   

• Elmer Masters 6:29 pm on August 29, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, config   

  Adding a MIME type for .a2j files to the Classcaster network. That’s text/xml for those of you following along at home.

   

• Elmer Masters 2:42 pm on August 27, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, ECR ( 12 ), eLangdell ( 31 )   

  Creating project in Manymoon to deal with ECR websites.

   

• Elmer Masters 4:11 pm on August 21, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, podcasting ( 2 )   

  Using PodPress on Classcaster 

  1: Activate PodPress
  2: Configure (needs more info)
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  Creating posts
  1: Once media is ready, visit the media library and upload your media files for the podcast.
  2: Create a new post
  3: Get the URLs for the media, add them to the PodPress fields at the bottom of the new post form.
  4: Write the post.
  6: Rinse and repeat.

  Pretty straight forward actually.

   

• Elmer Masters 3:56 pm on August 21, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, podcasting ( 2 )   

  Working on using PodPress for audio and video on a Classcaster blog. Plugin has been available but using it has not been properly documented.

   

• Elmer Masters 6:57 pm on August 20, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, ECR ( 12 ), eLangdell ( 31 )   

  ECR sites will include Lessons, podcasts, chapters, cases, and questions. Maybe even a crossword puzzle or 2.

   

• Elmer Masters 6:40 pm on August 20, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, eLangdell ( 31 ), Lessons ( 14 )   

  Sorting out the best way to pull essay questions from Lessons to included them into the eLangdell Course Resource blogs

   

• Elmer Masters 2:41 pm on August 20, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster, eLangdell ( 31 )   

  Copied the Supplement theme that Emily Barney and the CK team did for their WordPress based casebook supplement to a new eLangdell theme so that I can make some changes. The idea is to have a theme we can use for standard course resource collection sites.