Hello everyone,
List members may like to try the Bebop project's plugin for BuddyPress:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bebop/
Bebop is a BuddyPress plugin which allows you to connect your BuddyPress profile to other OER hosting platforms such as Flickr, Slideshare, Youtube and Vimeo. Bebop is an aggregator and curatorial tool, pulling content from other web services into your BuddyPress activity timeline. It will also pull in content from RSS/Atom feeds, so will work with sites like Tumblr, WordPress and Blogger. Bebop gives you control over exactly what items of content appear in your activity stream and works on WordPress network installs, too.
Bebop was developed by the University of Lincoln for a JISC-funded 'Open Educational Resources' project, to allow teachers to aggregate teaching resources they have shared on third-party sites into their BuddyPress profile. BuddyPress (and soon Bebop) is being used at the University of Lincoln to power staff and student profiles.
If you run BuddyPress at your institution and would like to try Bebop, we'd be very happy to support your initial evaluation, either on your site or by providing you with an account on our testing installation.
The plugin is now complete but we are still tweaking it in response to user feedback as well as improving the documentation, which you can find on Github: https://github.com/lncd/bebop/wiki
We expect to complete the project on time by mid-October and will continue to maintain the plugin for the foreseeable future.
As I said above, Bebop currently supports Flickr, Slideshare, Youtube, Vimeo and RSS/Atom feeds.
We are looking forward to individual profile RSS feeds and/or an API for Jorum, so that a Jorum user's OER's can be aggregated by Bebop, too :-)
Although not really an OER hosting site, a Twitter extension has also been included both as a further example of how to write an extension but also to appeal to users who wish to use Bebop as a general purpose social media aggregator for BuddyPress.
Bebop has been developed in a way that makes it very easy to write new extensions for other third-party services. Our initial list is based on our survey of the most popular platforms for OER hosting (see a post which addresses this on our project blog: http://lncn.eu/ps29).
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Joss Winn
Contact: http://lncn.eu/joss
Calendar: http://lncn.eu/az27
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