The story of rockalypse.org is told in the sidebar.
Until further notice, this is where I keep materials related to my courses at Allegheny College. The content I place on the web typically takes three forms:
- Calendars: Students like to know when things are happening.
- Content: Students like one place to find assignments, notes, and other content related to the course in one place.
- Communication: I like my communications with my students to be organized and archived.
I have tried most everything for course management from Userland Frontier, to home-grown web management tools, to CMS systems of varying levels of complexity. Last term I tried iWeb (a disaster), and this term discovered Sandvox by Karelia Software. I can easily create pages and organize the site, and links between pages "do the right thing." My weblog is statically managed on my local machine (that's fine), and I have a small Python script (rss2email) running on the server that generates an email from my weblog post, sending any new posts to the course mailing list. For calendaring, I've embedded Google Calendar, which lets me update my calendars through Google, and I never have to touch the website for the updates to show.
In short, it does everything I want (right now). I'm sure I'll come up with something, but for now, this is far, far less painful than hosted, web-based solutions.
