Steve O’Hear has posted two linked articles, the first looking at Web technologies and education in general, the second concentrating on Elgg. Having looked at different tools, I’m keen to start to use Elgg with the MSc eLearning students, rather than Blogspot. We had hoped to set up our own server, though that might not…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
Pew Internet Report – Bloggers.
Pew / Internet published a report looking into aspects of blogging. It is a US centred report, though it is likely that the UK would produce similar results. The data was gathered via telephone interviews, of those who had identified themselves as keeping a blog. Of the data of interest, some 37% said that they…
Blogs and Community
Nancy White has a wonderful set of 5 posts (linked from this last one) discussing the ideas of blogs and community. She’s divided blogs into 3 main types; Blog Centric; Topic Centric and Community Centric. A Blog Centric blog is essentially what this is, I’ve started it, I contribute, and on the odd occasion someone…
WordPress and iframes (and Firefox?)
I’ve had a few posts recently that have seemingly mangled my blog. From what I can tell, it seems to be things that have iframes. This morning a student emailed me to say that he’d wanted to comment on a post, but wasn’t able to. I checked a random post and was able to comment,…
Blogs and ePortfolios and Assessment
Barbara’s thinking Out Loud about blogs & ePortfolios. Here at Portsmouth we’ve been talking about blogs & ePortfolios; I’m hoping to have Elgg set up for the start of next academic year, and to test it with some students, primarily for blogging, but, as all the groups that I’ll be working with will have to…
Environment Teaching and Learning Day
Slides – (s5) How I got here: </p> <p>Map created using <a xhref=”http://www.quikmaps.com” mce_href=”http://www.quikmaps.com”>Quikmaps</a></p>…
Women don't blog … oh yes we do!
On my way to Blog.ac.uk at the start of the month, I was reading the Guardian & came across Men used to go fishing when they wanted to get away from ‘the wife’ and swap smutty jokes. Now they take up blogging. Talking to some of the other delegates, they expressed surprise, one commenting that…
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
New Scientist reports on plans in the US to start to tap into all the information that people are putting in the public domain, via social networking sites. New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people…
Wiki on blogging
Anne Davis has started to put together a useful wiki with resources about the use of blogs for learning….
Jakob Nielsen on Design, RSS, Email, and Blogs
Slashdot picked up on Neilsen’s article about RSS etc. Perhaps not unexpectedly, Neilsen tends to see blogs as not ideal for company information – though to be honest, I’m not sure that I really see them as useful for company news. To me it’s the wrong use of a good technology. Usual heated debate at…