I’ve recently had my “OSAR” – the Dundee equivalent of an annual review; among other things, I realise that I need to get back into blogging. There are many reasons, firstly, when I do it, I like it! However, we’re also busy rolling out a pilot of CampusPress – and so if I’m helping others,…
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Blogging, and other tools generally…
I’ve started looking through various bookmarked pages; an interesting co-incidence that when I thought I’d try to look at a range of aspects of Blogging in HE, I found that WordPress now offers the ability to use an online creator at WordPress.com to write for a self hosted blog. Not sure I’d bother in the…
Twitter … or why I've not been blogging
It’s fairly clear from the Wordle that I’ve just posted, that I’m using twitter more and more at the moment, so, following the suggestion from Ginerva,, I thought I’d have a go at creating it. Tweetstats gave me some useful stats, and here’s the wordle (which you can now create straight from Tweetstats):…
Getting back into the blogging habit.
Over the past few weeks, more than one person has asked if my URL has changed. It hasn’t. I’m just a rubbish blogger. I’ve got more into Twitter I guess; but I do have more than a few “drafts” just sitting in here – and other ideas floating round my head. Now that I’ve just…
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…
Reflecting on blogging.
I’ve recently read two posts – one from Su White and one from AJ Cann – both of which I agree with. Su was discussing the difficulties of getting students to reflect (at a course level) while AJ Cann was thinking about students blogging at unit level. In many ways, I agree with them; so…
Grading Student Blogging
I tend to query how much we should grade student blogging, or demonstrate a tool that they can use for note taking – in a way that can be more flexible (& searchable!) than a paper note book. However, it’s inevitable that staff will want to grade (that’s one of my reasons for liking Elgg…
Blogging in China
I’m getting some of my students to use blogs as part of their work while I’m here. We have a unit in the second year in which the students (in Portsmouth) have to use Eduspaces (Elgg powered) to create a “blog carnival” of their research. I’ve not got the time for that & also the…