JULY 2007 This is the first time I’ve seen this particular Journal, which is based at Indiana University, but has a range of papers. Gender Differences in British Blogging Sarah Pedersen & Caroline Macafee A useful study looking at characteristics of female & male bloggers (over 18) in the UK. They have generally similar findings…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
All seems well!
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to finalise the move from the now deceased tech server to this one. It wasn’t particularly easy initially, as I had to manually edit all the pages … It also wouldn’t import into Eduspaces – which I found annoying. There were a number of suggestions from people…
Microtrends: Ten essential Facebook accessories
Times Online lists 10 different accessories for Facebook. Most don’t seem to have too much relevance for education – indeed, things like Top ten and Bottom five make bullying very easy. On the other hand, the Zoho integration is great!…
How does the growth of social networking sites impact on e-portfolios?
Catherine Howell looks at the potential of things like Facebook and other social networking sites for PLEs. As I’ve mentioned already – I’m slightly worried about the impact of requiring students to use something outside the university – in case it fails. Having just spent quite a lot of time getting this blog back up…
OUseful Info: Social Computing Forecasts
Tony Hirst has a long post, with many links looking at how far we should be encouraging students to use Web 2.0 tools, either independently or through some form of institutional setup. The more that I look at it, I think that while we should be opening students eyes to the range of tools that…
Tips On Developing A Wiki Community
Teaching Hacks.com has some useful points about using a wiki for developing a community. The pertinent point is that a small wiki is like a small company/ village. You can get to know everyone. A very different situation from that encountered when working on, say, Wikipedia….
Favourite Tools
Jane Hart has started to create a list of Top Ten tools from a range of contributors it’s an interesting list, there is a range of commercial and free tools. I’ll have a think about my own list – right now I’d probably leave WordPress out, given the hassles I’ve got getting it going, though…
Getting there!
I have now managed to get the blog to a stage where I can login, write new posts – generally it’s all working. The only problem – is that it required just about all the pages to have to be edited. Quite a few people have been very helpful – both in the University and…
Technology Faculty Learning and Teaching Day
I’ve just given an overview of the way I’ve been using blogs with students – showing examples of several of the blogs that I’ve had over the years. Blogger Blogging IT and EDucation – a WordPress powered blog hosted on the Tech server EduSpaces – powered by Elgg, allowing me to import the posts I…