Wikis, Blogs, and CMS's: Beyond the Classroom

Peter Burkholder — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:51:00 -0700

Today I interviewed for a position with University of Maryland Office of Information Technology and the University’s College of Chemical and Life Sciences. As part of the interview process I was able to do a short presentation, and I chose to provide an overview of the web content management systems (wikis, blogs, cms’s and backpack) that I’ve worked with, and the role I think they can play in a univeristy environment beyond the strictly instructional.

Some of the resources I referenced in the talk are:

Wikipedia (of course)
the wikis hosted at swiki.dlese.org
RealClimate.org, an excellent blog on climate science
Buzz, the science blog and the Science Museum of Minnesota
BZST, a blog by UMd Professor Galit Shmueli
Plone, the Zope-based CMS
the Plone sites hosted at www.dlese.org
the Joomla sites at the College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, the Graduate Students’ Organization and the Doyle Research Group
37Signals, the web app development group responsible for Ruby on Rails and Getting Real
Backpack the place to put all your stuff, also from “37Signals”

Lastly, one can download the PDF version of my presentation

Ellipsis: Wikis, Blogs, and CMS's: Beyond the Classroom

Wikis, Blogs, and CMS's: Beyond the Classroom