I have been following the Bates Online Media blog for about a year. They have been blogging as they’ve worked through a pretty dramatic redesign of the college web site. The fact that is built on WordPress is probably the least important feature (but the WordPress geek in me does thrill just a bit at the news.) With my eldest now a freshman at Springfield college, we all spent a lot of time as consumers on college sites — and from the user perspective the Bates site is very smartly laid out, and is easy to use. Nice to see such a great end-result after a careful and productive planning process.
Bates College goes beyond the usual homepage redesign with Home 4 running on WordPress | collegewebeditor.com
We have been managing the site in WordPress since the beginning, first as a proof-of-concept with student assistants at WordPress.com, then as a working prototype with WP 2.8 software on an external hosting service, and now hosted on a campus Web server…The slideshows are handled with NextGenGallery, with the overlays via Thickbox and jquery. We’re using a number of plugins to enable shortcodes for editors along with WP-Table Reloaded for organization of tabular data originating in DabbleDB. We had over 30,000 views on launch day — about double the load of an average day — all served by WP-SuperCache.
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One Bates. Many Journeys. « Bates Online Media
I’m sharing the current draft of a vision paper on ways such an education might be expanded through online collaboration.
It’s 12-pages long, so here is a PDF version (2.1 MB download). It’s an evolving draft, so please send comments and suggestions for improvements.
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