Check my NECC handout, wouldya?

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Posted on 31st May 2007 by Chris in Presentations

I’ll spare you the it’s-been-crazy-with-the-school-year-ending apologies, but it’s been crazy around here. Heh.

Listen, I’ve been working on my presentation for NECC in the open source lab. It’s on Open Source Solutions for Student Blogging (or some catchy title like that).

I created a one-page comparison of Moodle, DrupalEd, WordPress and WordPress mu.

Take a look at it, would you? Help me proof it, see if there are errors, etc.

necc_handout_v1.pdf

Thanks!

Chris

6 Comments

  1. Aaron Smith says:

    Nice, my favorite part is where you just wrote “Nope.” in one of the boxes. :)

    My only constructive criticism is to make the blue backgrounds lighter so the black text is easier to read. It should also reproduce better with a lighter background.

    31st May 2007 at 7:58 am

  2. David Jakes says:

    Chris: here you go:

    I checked for spelling errors-didn’t see any.

    Wordpress/Installation requirements box is done in serif font, all the rest of the blocks are in sans-serif. I’d change it to sans-serif.

    DrupalEd/features block-has semi-colons after each bullet point. Other blocks have no punctuation, some have periods. Again, I’m looking for consistancy in all blocks.

    The Nope comment is too informal for me for a presentation at NECC.

    Minor things certainly, hope this helps. Have enjoyed your writing. See you at NECC.

    David

    31st May 2007 at 9:59 am

  3. Jim Gates says:

    If you’re including Moodle for its blogging feature, then I’d mention two things. FIrst, you can set visibility limits from the class to the site to the world FOr those who feel compelled to set visibility limits.

    Second, one huge missing feature (IMHO) in Moodle is that there is no way to comment on blog posts.

    31st May 2007 at 7:28 pm

  4. JenniferW says:

    Hi Chris

    Totally just me — but I would make all the fonts in the boxes UNDER the softwares the same size — so one doesn’t seem to pop out more than the rest………but that is strictly cosmetic and desktop publishing.

    Other than that — it is well done………….thanks for sharing.
    Jen

    31st May 2007 at 3:16 pm

  5. nzchrissy says:

    Hi Chris

    Wish I was goin’ to NECC!
    No spelling errors that I saw. From a beginner’s point of view – very easy to understand document. Handy to look back at after presentation too.
    Have fun at NECC – look forward to reading about it!

    31st May 2007 at 5:16 pm

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