Stephen Downes has a review of several papers about e-portfolios – concentrating on the student use of them, rather than institutional requirements. It’s something that came up at the PLE meeting that I went to – can a portfolio / PLE be truly “personal” if it’s institutionally provide? The links to Helen Barrat’s ideas about…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
DrawDoc
DrawDoc While this is also going to go in the tools section I’m just creating, I’ll also post about it here. I was reading about this in one of Scott Leslie’s posts, and so I thought I’d have a play. In another tab I had Josie’s post about Blog.ac.uk 2006 open, so pasted the first…
Tools
Over the past few weeks, when I’ve been very busy with marking etc., I’ve not been totally ignoring this blog, I’ve just been saving several sites as useful/ interesting for whatever reason. Quite a few have been “Web 2.0” type tools, so, rather than posting about them all, I’ve decided to create a new page…
When is a blogpost Plagiarism?
Jonathan Bailey in Plagiarism Today, looks at how much plagiarism exists in blogs. He acknowledges that it’s a difficult area – many bloggers do attribute work – and link back to the original – however the level of commenting that is put in varies tremendously. In his blog, he’s really concentrating on Web plagiarism, not…
More audio
Since I made the post this morning, I’ve done some more investigating and have found PodPress – and bought a rather snazzy headset. So, here’s my latest attempt. Transcript: This is so much easier than the one I was using this morning….
Wiki on a Stick
Having talked to various people about “Wiki on a Stick”, I thought I’d better have a go. The first page that I found was one at MediaWiki – which is the one I’d seen before. I intially tried the method with Uniform Server3_3, though that started to look rather fiddly (and quite large, given that…
Bloglines…
Kate Britt’s site, though I’ve not visited for a while, has a lot of resources for online teaching, especially those who are using WebCT. I found an idea for putting RSS feeds of academic journals into a course, using Bloglines. (Powerpoint). That worked fine – I’ve created an extra bloglines account and have populated it…
Importing external content into your blog – Elgg
Ben Werdmuller has put up some instructions for incorporating an external blog’s RSS feed to create content in an Elgg blog. I’d set up an Elgg blog a while ago, but, realistically, trying to maintain two blogs wasn’t possible. I like the way Elgg works, and, as I’ve already said, think that Elgg would be…
WebCT / Elgg?
Since I originally mentioned the link in February, Sasan has added a Flash demo of it. Tama’s review (posted in February, but I’ve only just found it) of the Aperto link seems to indicate that it does have the functionality I’m looking for. His earlier comments about WebCT’s blogging tool covers most of the points…
The Vancouver Education Blogging Sessions
DArcy Norman Someone mentioned that a student may have 5 different blogs – one for each class – and must post content to each blog in order to get credit for their work. And, at the end of the semester, the blogs are nuked from orbit. So, not only is a students work divided across…