a purpose driven blog
i guess i am settling on a blog topic for now . . . teaching online and in a cutting edge way. i will use this blog to help trace my steps as i try and improve my online teaching and as i test out new tools along the way. as some of you already know, i am using WordPress for my blogging tool. i signed up with bluehost as my internet hosting company and i am extremely happy with the services they provide for the money. they give me 50 MySQL accounts, which is pretty awesome. my blog takes up 1 SQL database, but many of the other tools i use take up a database as well, and bluehost gives me 50. my last host gave me 2, so you can guess how excited i am to be able to test so many services out for no extra cost. the nice thing about bluehost is that they make installing these extra services (e.g., WordPress, Moodle, phpBB forums, etc.) as simple as clicking a button. no knowledge of php or mySQL is required. nice.
more later as i fiddle. oh, here’s a banner to get you started (just click — and no, i do not work for the company):
July 14th, 2005 at 4:31 am
Hey, Sean. Pretty slick blog. I’ve thought about trying the blog software Bluehost has posted, but I’m not quite motivated enough to make the switch from Blogger just yet.
I have been playing around with the Simple Machines Forum. I used phpBB for my American Literature classes last year, but SMF seems to have a lot more features right out of the gate, as opposed to installing a bunch of mods. You might want to check it out.
Good luck with those papers. I hope you have a great summer!
July 14th, 2005 at 9:16 am
given that i have 50 mySQL databases, i’ll install SMF and play around with it. i notice that blueost will allow us to have 5 domains in one account. so, i am thinking of moving my other domains to this one (they would still work, but they’d secretly be subfolders on this account). i have fiddled around and i am having difficulty moving my phpBB forums here. i can back them up, but they won’t import . . . probably different versions or something. so, perhaps it’s time to try a new forum anyway.
back to reading papers.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
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