To help faculty and students find software for teaching, learning and research, we’re developing an online inventory of such software on a site we’ve called Techne.
One of the challenges of software inventories is figuring out how to organize the various types of software available. Currently we are using two taxonomies. The first is a hierarchical taxonomy which is used to organize software into a limited number of categories.
Thinking Matters home page, 2/15/2015
The Thinking Matters site was launched in October 2012. Since then it has aggregated nearly 3,000 blog posts from 24 different sites and includes twitter streams from nearly a dozen faculty.
The design of the site has undergone considerable revision. Originally, the site consisted of a single column of posts with 2 right sidebars that displayed links to recent posts, a few twitter streams and a tag cloud.
The site now uses a magazine…
My team has been developing a collection of WordPress plugins for creating what we are calling “connection hub” sites. These are sites that aggregate content from hundreds of faculty profile sites and then organize these connected sites by discipline and research interests. See:
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