Check my NECC handout, wouldya?
May 31, 2007
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.
Thanks!
Chris
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May 31st, 2007 at 7:58 am
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.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:59 am
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
May 31st, 2007 at 7:28 pm
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.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:16 pm
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
June 1st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
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!
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