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If we want to change www.ems.uct.ac.za to www.summerschool.uct.ac.za we need to do this, if we just change the blog address it says site no longer exists & cannot be found - not what we want at this stage...

This is an example of where the UCT CMS system has been used in a much more dynamic way. The colours are a bit dull (but probably fitting for Criminology) but we can make it more exciting. Look at the section under highlights - the Summer School blog and other external sites can go there. We can also investigate using 'follow us on Twitter' or having a live COL Twitter feed, with daily updates, depending on the projects that are running at a particular time e.g. Summer School in Jan, Pace in Fed, Third term around the time of winter and summer school, etc. More importantly, PACE, Summer School, etc can have their own navigation bar (where you see 'MERL', 'Physical Security' and so forth on this site) with more info about them than the current overview from Continuing Ed provides and we can also link to this extended info from there.

not bad but I still find it rather dull, I am afraid. Also I don't think I can live the CHED salmon pink colour coding... Someone told me that UCT ICTS is going over to wordpress???????? but Jenny never mentioned anything?

Very good approach - webcasts of presentations and slides. Lots of interesting topics such as 'Facebook as a research site'.

janet found this example of a nice drupal site

Scientific American has been bringing science to people for over 160 years. Now the magazine is bringing people to science through a new online listing of citizen science opportunities. Early this month, Scientific American Online launched a Citizen Science section of the web site. This is part of a larger Education effort, which includes a number of science activities called Bring Science Home.

Chemical Engineering Seminar Room, UCT Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 17:00 - 18:00 Posted on GC facebook site

Getting started... @JJJ John James Jacoby says codex.buddypress.org is the best place to start. Best advice is to use BuddyPress to compliment an existing site/audience. I'm going to try this out with my social media students - going to use BuddyPress as a pilot for GC 

Ingrid's site needs some work...make her poetry come alive a bit more. Clip of her literary reading, etc. Came across it when I was looking for a pic of her, remind me to chat to her about this:)

I like several things: the dynamic moving changing nature of the site - both with the pictures and text I like the way they have used their students' voices - definitely something we should do I like the levels of detail you can get - summary, more detail on the course, more detail on the lecturers