9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us — Modern Learning — Medium We know that most of our students will forget most of the content that they “learn” in school. As Matthew Lieberman from UCLA notes, “For more than 75 years, studies have consistently found that only a small fraction of what is […]
Month: April 2016
FI Video Collective – The Project & Theme
The FI Video Collective is a really fun project that Molly is leading centered around VCU’s common book. This spring semester, Focused Inquiry faculty are teaming up with ALT Lab to offer a unique creative opportunity to UNIV 112 students. This project is inspired by the artistic style of the winter reading selection, Lauren Redniss’ “Radioactive,” […]
Password Protect Posts Created via Gravity Forms
A quick little plugin that sets the password for posts created via Gravity Forms. This came about as the result of a faculty request today. In this case it’ll grab the first form field and use that for the password. You could hardcode it into the plugin itself but I thought this gave a bit […]
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All the Plugins – Custom Fitted?
Are you custom-made, custom-paid, or you just custom-fitted? –Ludacris I finally got a look at all the plugins in use across our install. I ended up having to incrementally push the data to a CSV file. It’s not a beautiful and I guess I could just as easily create a table and update that . […]
First Steps in the Personal API
The first step in starting to consider your personal API is figuring out where your stuff is now. This has been an interesting experiment for me as I’ve flung stuff all around the Internet with very little concern for long-term considerations. Where is my stuff? I’m trying to think about all the places I’ve […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-03-27
MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS* — MIT MEDIA LAB — Medium Kind of insane that there was ever a need for ‘permission’ to release their own work. This student put 50 million stolen research articles online. And they’re free. – The Washington Post “There are many ways to argue that copyright infringement […]
All the Sites, All the Plugins
WordPress gets complex as a multisite get bigger. Things that worked at smaller scale start dying. I’ve long wanted to be able to run a report on all the active plugins on our multisite but it always timed out before it would complete. This script will spit out 1001 sites at a time into a […]