Learning, teaching and research

Today sees the launch of a new politics e-journal – Roundhouse: A Journal of Critical Theory and Practice –  at Leeds University. A team of 3rd year undergraduate students have led the editorial process and the first edition showcases nine articles from recent graduates examining the ‘applied turn’ in Critical Theory along with an editorial [...]

It is rumoured that blogging running out of steam. Several colleagues in the educational bloggersphere have reported that they are not blogging as much as usual and are tending to be more active in Twitter. I am also aware of a few bloggers who have stopped blogging as they feel pressurised by the reputation and [...]

I’m toying with the idea of turning my whole site over to WP using it as a content management system. I assume this would allow me to have a site blog as a tab on the home page. I’ll investigate further. In the meantime a couple of links to resources:
Wordpress as a CMS – Content [...]

When installing this theme the About and Archive links in the header produced missing pages messages. To fix this I had to do the following.
Create a page each  for the about and archive sections. I gave theses the titles ‘About’ and ‘Archives’.
Set the post slug to ‘about’ and ‘archive’
In the Options section of the Dashboard change the [...]

Just received Wordpress for Dummies from Amazon (thanks Dan and Nicky!). It looks like some people make a good living out of providing WP hosting and/or themes design. There is a multi-user version of WP where everyone can customise their own blog. WP can also be used as a powerful web site content management system [...]