Slides – (s5) How I got here: </p> <p>Map created using <a xhref=”http://www.quikmaps.com” mce_href=”http://www.quikmaps.com”>Quikmaps</a></p>…
Women don't blog … oh yes we do!
On my way to Blog.ac.uk at the start of the month, I was reading the Guardian & came across Men used to go fishing when they wanted to get away from ‘the wife’ and swap smutty jokes. Now they take up blogging. Talking to some of the other delegates, they expressed surprise, one commenting that…
More on PLEs
I’ve already mentioned my thoughts on the use of Google as a way of creating a PLE. A post of Joan’s on the Social Learning site points to Graham’s position paper on PLEs – which is well worth reading. He’s got a list of tools that could be combined to make a PLE (given the…
A Review of Research on Teaching Courses Online
Christopher D. Sessums reviews a review … but it’s worth reading….
Edublog simile generator
David DaviesÂ’ Edublog simile generator gave me a laugh, particularly as I’d thought it said “smilie” generator, so I was hopefully looking for some Edublog smilies….
What is Web 2.0?
The Register ran a survey, asking people what they thought Web 2.0 was … they had a range of answers! What’s Web 2.0 has a more expected set of answers, constantly being updated, especially if you look at their aggregator….
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
New Scientist reports on plans in the US to start to tap into all the information that people are putting in the public domain, via social networking sites. New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people…
blogwithoutalibrary.net
LIS course in Social Software This course looks like it’s going to be very interesting, I hope that at least some of the materials end up online – I’ve been looking at various courses as we start to plan out the new online MSc. The Opencourseware initiative has been good for that; I rather like…
Wiki on blogging
Anne Davis has started to put together a useful wiki with resources about the use of blogs for learning….
Google Trends.
Kineo has reviewed Google Trends – yet another of Google’s innovations, allowing you to follow search trends over time. I’ve just tried with “Edublogging” and “Edublog”, but unfortunately neither have enough searches to generate data. So, I thought I’d try plagiarism. It seems the Australians are particularly interested in it….