One of the sessions I attended was the Online Identity workshop run by Frances Bell, Josie Fraser, James Clay & Helen Keegan. As usual from that crowd it was interactive, thought provoking & they’d set up an accompanying Wiki. They started off by asking us to write our names on a postit. Trustingly we all…
ALT-C 2009
One of the issues that cropped up at ALT-C was “blog or twitter”. There’s an ongoing debate re. whether or not Twitter is killing blogging. I’m guilty of that – very much so! Just look at the twitter stats– and my frequency of recent postings on here. This started off really as a small discussion…
Blogging offline
I’ve now deleted the (assorted) posts that I made re. trying to use an off line blogging tool. The formatting was getting messed up & I’ve now discovered that it’s related to the versions of libxml. I’ve installed the plugin developed by Joseph Scott – though still not working, as we have a different version…
Blogging, Twitter or Facebook.
A couple of conversations last week while on leave and since Ive got back, have reminded me that Ive really got rather behind with the blogging and also that Im now using Twitter more and more (not that I needed to be told either!) Twitter & Blogging When I first came across Twitter,…
Blogging from Word.
I was on the train yesterday, with very poor mobile broadband – so thought I’d test out Blogging from Word, by creating a post, in order to posting it when I got back here. Some of the issues I had weren’t Word’s fault – this laptop has a (finger print print controlled) Password Bank. It…
Web2.0 or …
Im recently starting to think more and more about Web2.0 and teaching; more specifically how much is actually web2.0 (on the assumption it can be defined) and how much is what Im getting the students to do (or, indeed, what I, as I extend my own knowledge am doing). Is just looking at videos on…
Web2.0
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Who's following who?
I’ve read a few posts recently in the blogosphere (such as this one by Mike Arsenault) about “twitter snobs” – and basically whether one should, or shouldn’t, automatically follow everyone who follows you. As with so many things, some people will argue vehemently that their way is “right”; others will be more pragmatic – explaining…
Laptops vs. Computer labs
Several in the blogosphere have pointed to the Ars Technica report this week about the decision of the University of Virginia to re-think computer labs, after only 4 new students arrived sans computer (didn’t state if they were laptops or desktops). Naturally, the reaction was mixed – mostly anti the decision; based on aspects such…
Ada Lovelace Day 09
Ages ago, I signed the pledge to write a blog post for Ada Lovelace Day – about a woman in technology that I admire. I then wondered who on earth I’d write about; there are quite a few I could think of off hand, but trying to think of someone who I felt had really…