Quite often, students are required to blog as part of their coursework. Many staff, as I do, hope that by requiring students to blog initially, over time they’ll start to realise the intrinsic worth of blogging. , However, if we require students to blog, clearly we have to mark blogs, which poses an interesting dilemma,…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
Reconstruction – Special Edition on Blogging.
I’d not heard of this particular journal before, but a post by Lilia Efimoava points to it. (The initial link isn’t working, but just select one of the others). The papers cover wide range of aspects. I’ve not read them all yet, but I have read Saper’s Blogademia – where he seems to be focussing…
Tags
I have decided to deactivate the current tag plugin that I’m using (Ultimate tag Warrior). It was working by converting the categories to tags, and then allowing me to add extra ones. I’d only installed it to see if I was able to use it to generate tags on the Elgg site, but it didn’t…
Splashr
A tool to create a slideshow of photos in Flickr. I’ve just been experimenting … (these will open in a new pop-up window) Vanuatu Egypt Having carefully added notes to quite a few images, they don’t seem to have transferred across – at least I’d not got too many photos! Long term though, in terms…
Personal vs Business
Lilia has been looking at aspects of blogging, how much of work based blogs is personal and personally initiated, and how much is controlled by the work place. I’ve used her excel file to generate an image for mine, though I think that possibly some of the dimensions – that she generated from data gathered…
The Webcast Academy
The Webcast Academy seems to be a site for educational webcasters. They have a range of information – both “how tos” and recorded webcasts. ONe thing that I found a little frustrating – after registering yet again for yet another site, is that it’s Drupal powered; now, I know that I’ve registered with assorted other…
A 16 Year Old Blogger
Christian Long has a series of posts (this is the fifth so far) about some interactions with a 16 year old who found his blog. Well worth reading. (I’ve now decided that my “Digital Divide” category should include age as well as the other aspects of a divide!)…
Grazr
After John had commented about Grazr in a post about getting RSS into WebCT- reminding me that I’d had a play in the past, but had forgotten about it, I’ve had another look. I had hoped initially that I’d be able to synchronise Bloglines with Grazr. Initially I thought that I was going to have…
Edublog Awards 2006: nominations open
The nominations for this year’s Edublog Awards have opened. To give you a taste, here are last year’s nominees…
Tags
Just testing using tags – to see if Elgg can import the tags, rather than just the post….