January 6, 2009
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How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website
Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.
How To Embed Audio In A Wordpress Blog
Trust you will enjoy and benefit from this short little video I just uploaded on YouTube showing how to insert mp3 audio files into your Wordpress posts and pages.
Academia 2.0: What Would a Fully Interactive Journal Article Look Like
May 14th, 2009by Sean Gorman
We've been collaborating with our co-founders back at George Mason for the last few months on a paper modeling oil dependency/vulnerability from a geographic perspective. We wrapped up the paper yesterday and it got me thinking about what a fully interactive version of the paper would look like. What if all the maps and charts were embeds? What if you could download all the data sets used for the analysis right from the paper?
While many journal have come online and some even in openly accessible venues - I don't think we've really tapped the power of the Web for interactivity, data sharing, innovation, or peer review. Having more interactivity in charts and maps could make research more accessible and engaging. Further, having the data for a paper downloadable could provide better peer review, and create the opportunity to innovate and extend the research. A fellow resercher could have an idea to extend or optimize an equartion test it on the same data set and see if it yielded better results.
"WordPress + Education = ScholarPress
ScholarPress is a hub for developing WordPress plugins for Education. It's that simple. So far we've developed Courseware, a course management tool to publish your class schedule, assignments, and bibliography to accompany your blog. There's also WPBook, which can embed your WordPress blog into Facebook and create an application that students can add. Check it out."