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September | 2014 | Adam Croom
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Date archives "September 2014". Is LMS a new market for WordPress themes? September 30, 2014. I occasionally peruse Themeforest. To see what new offerings they had available and I’ve been surprised by the number of education offerings, in particular LMS imitator themes, have popped up over the last year. In fact, they’ve gone ahead and created an entire Education category. 8221; and is designed by an incredibly popular author on Themeforest, designthemes. And launched on August 21. Which I’ve actua...
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December | 2013 | Adam Croom
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Date archives "December 2013". You are the programmer. Write the program. December 31, 2013. For context, I was the new kid in a fairly smaller school than I was used to. I had taken kindergarten through fourth grade in a different town and was still orienting myself with my new surroundings. Naturally, I had convinced myself that the best way to integrate seamlessly with the students was going to be by representing them. I would be the leader the never knew they needed! Begin with the End in Mind.
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Deep Within the Spotify Stream | Adam Croom
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Deep Within the Spotify Stream. May 1, 2015. I was up late at my office last night, as I have been every night this week, working on a research project for grad school. You want to know when I feel most like a grad school student? When I open up Spotify and try to pick the perfect playlist to write too. Most times, I can’t help but pull up the same music or genre of music I listened to the undergrad. This is one of my favorite webcomics ever:. Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. And we chatted for...
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June | 2014 | Adam Croom
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Date archives "June 2014". Putting a Bow on PR Pubs This Semester. June 20, 2014. This post is a bit overdue, but with the semester wrapping up and summer projects getting off the ground, I just haven’t dedicated the time necessary to update the ol’ blog. Well good news! Friday has rolled around and the offices are quiet enough to finally write the last post on my series about the revisions that I made to the course I teach, PR Publications. You can read my previous posts under the JMC 3433 Category.
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May | 2015 | Adam Croom
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Date archives "May 2015". May 31, 2015. It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. Robert Louis Stevenson,. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Recently, I stumbled across Kris Shaffer’s. Project, Open Music Theory. Which is a textbook hosted entirely on Github utilizing Jekyll. Which alerts the author and they can decide to accept the request. If they do, this will change the version. As an example, on the band’s Kiss’s page (see above), I can now read arguments ab...Of this c...
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February | 2014 | Adam Croom
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Date archives "February 2014". February 14, 2014. Without further ado…. 1 Favorite article involving a company bent on world domination. 8220;Cheap Words: Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books? By George Packer,. 2 Favorite new event coming to OKC. This idea seems similar to Better Block, but rather than reimagining a distressed/unoccupied block, it’s bringing the walkability conversation to already flourishing. 3 Favorite blog post relevant to what I do on a day-to-day basis. Director o...
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PR Pubs Goes Online! | Adam Croom
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Domain of Ones Own. PR Pubs Goes Online! January 14, 2015. Currently, 25% of the course is built out and I will continue to build out content over the semester. I’m utilizing the Academy WordPress theme, one that I blogged about before. First, I need to give a nod to a couple different points of inspiration. The first is Laura Gibbs, who is using OU Create to blog about online course design. The second is DS106.us. Digital Storytelling from the University of Mary Washington, which was the original inspir...
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May | 2014 | Adam Croom
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Date archives "May 2014". A GIF-Powered Time Travel of the OU Campus. May 2, 2014. Last week I was inspired by a blog post. From the OU Institute for Quality Communities. Which leveraged Google Map’s new historical imagery street view feature. And GIFs to show the growth of OKC over the last five years. I was curious to do the same for OU as well to see if Google Earth Streetview what snapshot of construction at OU since 2008 could be perused. A few neat findings:. 1 Growth of the OU Research Campus.
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Reflecting on ET4Online 2015 | Adam Croom
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Domain of Ones Own. Reflecting on ET4Online 2015. April 25, 2015. I got back in town yesterday from the 8th Annual (and what was announced. As the last) ET4Online Conference. Which brings me back with a lot to reflect on. I did a session with Chris Mattia. Focuses more on the LMS replaceability of domains while we are using it more as a digital portfolio (Gardner, let me know when you’ve came up with a better name. I’m counting on it! I did my talk as a personal narrative from the perspective of a dude w...
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March | 2014 | Adam Croom
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Date archives "March 2014". Everything I Know About HTML I Learned From An 11 Year Old. March 10, 2014. Later thisweek I’ll be speaking at Oral Roberts University to a student group called Enactus. Having a newborn meant I had to be incredibly efficient with the little time I had to do freelance work, and this attracted me to solutions like WordPress. I could install the application on a server and identify a suitable theme in minutes, which would usually get me 80% of the way there on the back-end work ...
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