Mark Berthelemy writes about Networks. He raises several useful points (as well as pointing to other work, including a post by Ewan McIntosh) One point particularly resonates: Most of us start by trying to maintain a network that is far beyond our capabilities to maintain. We end up with too much to read, and too…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
Blogs vs. Discussion Groups
Tony Karrer links to Michele Martin’s post about a discussion (on a listserve) discussing lists and blogs. (in this case, discussion groups are email based). Michele makes some very pertintent points, such as Blogs offer a place for individuals to process information and put ideas out into the world. I can’t imagine posting some of…
Slideshare – a few issues.
I’m giving a talk for the library tomorrow, about Blogs and Wikis. It’s really just to get them going to start to think about how libraries are using blogs and wikis. I put the slides up in slideshare, but have just discovered that if you want to have links in a slideshow, the link needs…
Blog discussion – and ideas for Elgg.
I’ve recently been taking part in an online discussion about blogging for learning. (You have to login to read/ take part) Quite a significant part of the discussion was taken up with the discussion of different tools. As I was singing Elgg’s praises, I realised one potential issue for users when they have Elgg locally…
Sociality and Learning in Social Software.
Tim Hoogenbooms presents a long blog post (more of a paper really) looking at social learning through the use of Social software (Web2.0). He looks at some of the difficulties inherent in the use of social software for social learning. Long, but well worth reading. (It is in English!)…
WordPress 2.1 – out now
I saw the links & off I went. Not quite as successful as upgrading to 2.0.7 – as we’ve not got MySQL 4.anything on this server. So I had to uninstall. As I’d not properly backed up the most recent version, and I’m not in my Office, I’ve had to revert to 2.0.5 (the most…
Rationale for educational blogging
Anne Davis has a long list of points that are very relevant to all anyone who is encouraging their students to blog, or, indeed, to anyone who wants to blog for their own learning. All points are so true, though at the moment the two that particularly strike me are: Blogs help learners to see…
Edublogger Survey
The results are in! Scott Mcleod has published the results of the edublogger survey that he carried out at the start of the month (a slight problem – all our antipodean colleagues are still on their summer breaks – wonder if they’d have altered the results at all?) Christopher Sessums has just put up a…
Offline Wiki
Socialtext Enterprise Wiki is a wiki that can be synchronised, so that it can be worked on offline. I can see quite a few uses of this – and of other offline software. I’m currently also looking at a discussion board that VSO have for volunteers, both before they go, and while they are in…
Does Your Blog Have a Gender?
Does Your Blog Have a Gender? Seems that it thinks I’m male. I wonder if it’s the fact that it’s a factual, work related blog. Perhaps the personal blog (that I don’t have) would have a more feminine side….