Martin Weller raises several points to support the use of a combination of Web 2.0 type tools, rather than an Institutional VLE. While I think that the points he raises are valuable, and that the combination of tools would make a good set (call it a PLE or not as you like!). I agree with…
Month: November 2007
Intute Blog
Intute have launched a blog. It’s very much of the “news” rather than personal opinion, however, one worth following, I suspect, as the Intute materials are generally useful….
Facebook – deleteing messages.
I’ve just tried to delete some messages in my inbox (I’ve found in the past, that I can’t mark as read, I was having to *actually* read them) I’ve now discovered that it’s in Firefox that I can’t delete. IE was quite happy to let me delete. Is this just my set up, or is…
'$100 laptop' begins production
They’re starting to make them. I’ve read quite a few reports, such as CNET’s that goes on to comment on other low cost laptops. What really interests me, though, is the interface and the fairly radical approach to learning that the OLPC brings. It’s not really the hardware (interesting though that is), it’s the software…
Freefolio – a social e-Portfolio
Graham Attwell has just launched a portfolio based on WordPress. That makes it easy to fill up – and it makes use of the structured blogging plugin to create some specialised posts. I can see that some of the post types – such as “Learning Event” would be very useful, though I could see that…
The Dynamics of Social Networking.
This is another post I’ve had in my “drafts” for quite a while. I had actually skim read it this afternoon, as the title that was picked up was just the website name … so “How to save the world”. In this particular post, Dave Pollard looks at the whole range of dynamics of social…
How to Grow a Blog
Konrad Golgowski has developed some very nice sheets to help his students “Grow a blog”. I’ve just been pointing my students to his Personal progress chart and self assessment chart – and decided to have a look at the Teaching and Learning set – which lead me to the Grow a blog. Simple, but so effective!…
Blogs, tablet and Blip
I’ve had this bookmarked for a while now, Ma222 Statistical Analysis – it’s a blog (now a little static) in which the lecturer has used a tablet PC, captured what’s going on and uploaded it to Blip TV to demonstrate aspects of stats. Nice and simple – and in several ways quite similar to Alan…
The Web is Agreement
Paul Downey has uploaded an image “The Web is Agreement” to Flickr. It’s a very rich image, and well worth spending some time looking at. He’s created a set of images, and has also created a very clear .pdf (A2) that can be downloaded. In the comments, others have referred to Tim Berners-Lee’s diagram, and…
Panoramio – Photos of the World
Panoramio – Photos of the World Nice Google maps based application (one of many!) which tags photos to locations. I’ve also had Imagini bookmarked for a while. The idea behind that is that you can select photos that represent your personality – and find other members based on that. They call it “Visual DNA”…