{"id":50,"date":"2007-07-22T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:23:55","slug":"planning-to-divorce-the-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/planning-to-divorce-the-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning to Divorce the CMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’ll leave someday. I’m sure my second Course Management System knows that already. It’s not that it’s been a bad relationship (not like my first CMS — that was brutal — we’re not on speaking terms), but some day I’ll have to move on. I’ve gotten a lot of advice lately, reading some self-help gurus: Brian Lamb<\/a>, George Siemens<\/a>, Stephen Downes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And now I’ve found the last tool to break the chain. It’s called Engrade<\/a>, and it’s a web 2.0 gradebook (thanks to Sharon Davis and the WOW2 folks<\/a> for posting the link the other night). I haven’t tried Engrade. It may not work. I don’t care. The fact that it’s there means there will be more apps like it. That’s all I want.\n<\/p>\n

I can now do everything offered by a CMS outside<\/i> a CMS. I can patch together the whole thing using webapps. I can mix-and-match, I can blend. I can do it my way<\/i> (anyone will tell you that’s the way I do everything anyway!). I can create and have my students use and create pages with widgets in Protopage<\/a>, discussion boards with QuickTopic<\/a>, IM with Meebo<\/a> or Adium<\/a> (for Mac), conference calls in Skype<\/a>, RSS feeds in Feedraider<\/a>, blogs at Edublogs<\/a>, wikis at pbwiki<\/a> or in <a href="http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org" MediaWiki, slideshows at Bubbleshare<\/a> and VoiceThread<\/a>, annotated photos at Flickr<\/a>, presentations and zillions of other things at Zoho<\/a>. And all for my very favorite price: free!\n<\/p>\n

No, I won’t move out right away. But my current CMS better start taking out the trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’ll leave someday. I’m sure my second Course Management System knows that already. It’s not that it’s been a bad relationship (not like my first CMS — that was brutal — we’re not on speaking terms), but some day I’ll have to move on. I’ve gotten a lot of advice lately, reading some self-help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-pedagogy","category-web-20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10089,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/10089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}