Wordpress runs locally on my own "server" now!!!

While compiling data for my dissertation, I feel there is a need to find a blogging system. It doesn't have to be fancy but it should:

• be safe and private
• be free
  
• have sufficient space
• allow key word search
• allow tagging and categorizing and trackback
  
• be HTML-friendly
• be transferable
  

At first I wanted to try Rapidweaver's blogging system but unfortunately it does not allow key word search. Then I thought of the possibility of running Wordpress locally. I started with Solution 1 (Wordpress + MAMP) recommended by KJC. Steps 1-3 went pretty well but for some reason Step 4 didn't work until I tried Solution 2. I learned in a hard way that you'll have to set the document root to /Applications/MAMP/hotdocs instead of /Users/username/Sites/wordpress to make it work.

Everything works pretty well! Now Wordpress is up and running on my personal Macbook Pro-turned "server" under localhost:8888/wordpress.

Back to play with my new WP sandbox.

Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology

Jonassen, D. H. (2004). (Ed.). Handbook of research on educational communications an technology (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Part I. Theoretical foundations for educational communications & technology

1. Behaviorism & instructional technology (Burton, Moore, & Magliaro, pp. 3-36)

• The notion of the mind as computer has fallen into disfavor due to the mind-body separation-human as machines (Gardner v Skinner)
• DE's "any time, any place" asynchronous learning - issues of scalability, cost effectiveness, maximization of the learner's time, value added have brought to the forefront behavioral paradigms
  

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Part II. Hard technologies

Part III. Soft technologies

Part IV. Instructional design approaches

Part V. Instructional strategies

Part VI. Instructional message design

Part VII. Research methodologies