OER Hack Days / WordPress Widgets

An idea from the CETIS UKOLN OER Hack Days

News: Manchester Wordpress hackers table have created a wiki page for knowledge around OER and WordPress - http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/OER_Wordpress_Plugins What we actually did at the event: Code will be available under GPL via a github page and screencast videos will be linked from here and sent to lists
 * New OER bookmarker and bookmarklet (platform independent and runs on mobiles) as "FavOERrite plugin - Great tool for building up pages of web links
 * Fed OER in bulk into WordPress using FeedWordPress and Custom Post Type UI and displayed using Featured Post type
 * New OER Plugin 'Selectable RSS' to search against Xpert RSS API or Merlot or OERcommons or any OER repository that offers a URL to search and present results back in RSS format
 * reviewed tons of plugins that are good for OER CC work - e.g. photodroper for flickrCC / open attribute / FeedWordpress /
 * Reviewed populating WordPress with feeds from OpenSpires video RSS feeds etc. -
 * dublin core work - simple tests on setting this up using custom feeds
 * 4 Screencast video tutorials going through all of the above work using a typical WordPress install - a great help to configure and setup the plugins up

WordPress has great potential for presenting OERs. It gives you good web presence, category views, RSS feeds, simple search of the whole collection, widgets to bring in stuff from other sources and, if you want them, plugins for some DC metadata, CC, OAI-PMH data provision and RDFa.

But there is plenty of scope to do more.

Maybe there is some work that could be done with Pat Lockley's OpenAttribute plugin, or work on some of the ideas from the Delores project or the TRITON project.

The Primary School TV, Primary School Games, BBC News Feed and BrainPOP widgets are good examples of widgets that are used to easily bring content in from other sources.

Classdroid is an example of a Android application for Wordpress that is used to capture progression and evidence of a pupils progression with the ultimate goal of creating an easy to manage eportfolio.

Default interface tweeks to make posting easier

Tracking from wordpress

Iframe site to site cross oer use

Aggregating feeds of OER using RSS aggregators

Plugins that search into FlickrCC and present results in a grid or list

Who
Phil Barker - can describe requirements, provide feedback.

Peter Robinson from http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk - can describe some ideas, some example plugins ( an RSS plugin that searches against the OER aggregator Xpert and displays results as RSS [GPL developed by Simon W] and provide some OER RSS feeds to play with ...