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If I had made it down for the camp, focussed on using WordPress for educational and academic communities, order amoxicillin overnight delivery,  I had hoped to talk about the experience of building and designing the SUNY Stony Brook History Department website. This was my first attempt at a multi-user blog system for an academic department, Order amoxicillin pills, and the template was based on work by Jeremy Boggs for the GMU Art History Department. The site went live in September, and has been developing iteratively for the past one year through the inputs of historians Chris Sellers, Eric Lewis Beverley, Larry Frohman, and Nancy Tomes, buy amoxicillin online cheap.

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WIth faculty, Cheap amoxicillin without prescription, staff, and graduate students, well over four hundred registered members in the Stony Brook History Department, using Wordpress presented significant challenges due to its individual blogger orientation, order amoxicillin cod. Some significant limitations remain in Wordpress's user management and security functions, which plugins such as Role Manager help to address, Buy amoxicillin online, such as custom user groups and controlling permissions -- but not resetting passwords -- for each group. Some other plugins at work on the site are Sidebar Login and COinS Metadata Exposer which embeds citations for each post as microformats.

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If only I could have been at this special WordCamp, I would have also liked to talk about the other Wordpress sites which I have developed and maintained over the past several years, New Mexico NM N.Mex. , including the personal archive and teaching blog of social anthropologist Keith Hart, the Memory Bank; the site of urban research and design group CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust); the Writing Cities network between MIT, Idaho ID , Harvard and LSE; the Urban South Asia workshop.

I have no doubt that the expert minds and hands of Dave Lester and Jeremy Boggs have created another excellent peer-learning experience at WordCampEd. I hope I'll be there next year.

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References

[1] “The City as Extracurricular Space” by Prasad Shetty, Anirudh Paul and Shekhar Krishnan at http://www.crit.org.in/papers/iacs forthcoming in the Journal of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, September 2005.
[2] Post-Industrial Landscapes Projects on Mill Lands at http://www.crit.org.in/projects/girni and Dock Lands at http://www.crit.org.in/projects/docklands
[3] Mumbai Free Map Community GIS (Geographic Information System) at http://www.crit.org.in/projects/gis
[4] Community Housing Experiment at Betwala Chawl at http://www.crit.org.in/projects/betwala
[5] Geographies of Resistance, presentation by Anirudh Paul at Workshop on Emerging Urbanism, SARAI-School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, http://www.crit.org.in/papers/saraispa.

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Institutions have never been static forms or stable structures, but are constantly changing processes, better understood as nodal points in flows of people, ivermectin liquid, ideas and resources which are always in motion. The residential campus, Order praziquantel, gated against or located outside the city, can no longer enforce its separation from the outside world, if it ever could. Today’s academy can neither be an ivory tower nor an exam factory, order generic stromectol, but must engage with its outside, the public spaces and arenas for civic action with which many artistic and cultural initiatives are now concerned. Stromectol order, Similarly, the increasing mobility of students, faculty, and administrators across borders — whether driven by cultural curiosity or commercial necessity — is a fact in our era of globalisation, ivermectin for sale. The question is not whether to be sedentary or not, but how we can evolve new pedagogic practices which creatively harness this increased mobility, making movement itself into a vital principle of learning.

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