Josie Fraser has posted about an interview with Dave and Ben. Though she’s called it “Elgg Spaces”, it’s actually about far more than just Elgg spaces. It covers much of the current situation of Elgg. As some of you know, I’ve decided to move the MSc Students from Blogger to Elgg. I’d hoped that we’d…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
Webcameron & Blogs from Space
On Saturday the Guardian covered both “Webcameron” – and the Anousheh Ansari’s Space Blog. By Tuesday it was reporting that the original Webcameron site had been spoofed. Anousheh’s blog seems safe at the moment. Blogs are getting more and more mainstream – and, as such, spoofing is only going to increase as well….
Flock – and Elgg
I have just been testing the ability of Flock to post to an Elgg blog – and it works! I’m hoping to get the MSc eLearning Students to use Elgg, rather than Blogger this academic year, and I was slightly worried that would mean that they wouldn’t be able to use Flock to integrate directly…
Flock Test 2.
Flock can link directly to Flickr … Though it wasn’t immediately clear, it seems that I can have a flickr Stream open at the top, enable “Web snippets” in the Blog post tools, drag the image you want to WebSnippets and then drag it to the blog post. Wonder if there is a shorter route….
Testing from Flock
I’ve got Flock installed on my laptop … given that it’s based on Firefox, I assumed that CTRL B would open my Bookmarks. It didn’t. It opened a “Blog Post”, so thought I may as well test it! So far, so good. Blogged with Flock…
Safe Blogging
Safe Blogging Though these guidelines are written for school age students, many of them are highly applicable to under/post graduate students as well … such as I will avoid the use of chat language. I will try to spell everything correctly. I will only give constructive criticism. I am responsible for anything posted in my…
Lorelle on WordPress
Lorelle on WordPress I’d originally found Lorelle’s site from a link to a post about Copyright theft; however, the whole site seems to have a lot of useful information about WordPress & blogging in general. Some of her (I think it’s a her!) about maintenance, accessibility/usability & keywords are very pertinent – and things that…
A Classroom Blogging
The tools is the first post (apart from the Introduction) of a planned series of posts about getting a group of students to blog over this semester. Jenn is going to get her students to use Flock, either from a Flash Drive, or, if they have them, laptops. Dave (who writes Academhack) lists the advantages…
Internet Safety Videos
Based on real life stories, these would make good discussion points for students as well as pupils. They’ll be useful resources for EdCOM – though I have to remember all these new resources I’ve found recently!…
Progressive Discourse
Konrad Glogowski has written a pair of posts about how his relationship changed with his class through blogging. His class is a Grade 8 class, so about 14 years old. He notes, in his first post, that his class moved to a position where rather than him being seen peddling content, he was part of…