blogwithoutalibrary.net » RSS2S Or, how to turn your last 10 RSS feeds into a slideshow using S5. If you go to Pascal’s site – and enter the feed of your site into the text box, then you can see the S5 presentation for your blog. If he’s put his code on the site, I’ve not…
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Lecturer reprimanded for 'defamatory' blog postings
Dr. Ringmar, from the LSE, has been officially reprimanded for his blog. This actually seems to be the end of a story, and one that’s got several aspects to it. From the summary on the Guardian Website, he’d said during an Open Day (for prospective students), that most lecturers were busy doing research, and they…
Email as collaboration.
Central Desktop Blog have made two posts about various aspects of email as a collaboration tool. The articles concentrate on the “good” & “bad”, though the comments tend to cover both! Central Desktop themselves market a wiki tool for collaboration, though say that a lot of their internal communication is email based….
Coming of Age: An introduction to the NEW worldwide web
Anne Davies linked to this book edited Terry Freedman; he’s got an impressive list of contributors, and the book is one good idea following another. She quotes Peter Ford saying: Terrys view was that this should be a free download to encourage the widest possible audience To do that, it’s best to go to his…
It's getting noisy
Konrad Glogowski has a wonderful description of his blogging community … I feel like I am in a very noisy place. Its like being in a tiny cafe where, around each tiny table, there are conversations that you overhear as you order your latte and check your pockets for change. I’d love our MSc eLearning…
HigherEd BlogCon
HigherEd BlogCon is over now, but there’s a wealth of information deserving a closer look up….
Locked in on reflection
EduBlog Insights » Blog Archive » Locked in on reflection My brain keeps locking in on the importance of reflection, but reflection from students mainly. I wish more teachers would use blogs for reflections about learning in our schools A thoughtful post from Anne looking at the need for both students and staff to use…
Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~Blogs, wikis and Podcasts? What if we're all wrong?
With this as a title in one of Steven Downes’ posts, I was interested! He was commenting (vociferously), on an article by Terry Freedman, about a keynote speech given at the Naace Conference – by John Clare. John Clare is an Education journalist for the Daily Telegraph– and is fairly anti technology. So, it was…
Campus wide e-Portfolios
Dave Tosh looks at some of the implications of setting up campus wide ePortfolio systems; specifically by the University of Nebraska. He points out that while they have said that departments and schools can customise their views, the same isn’t possible for students. A few weeks ago – in fact, just about the same time…
BBC.co.uk 2.0 – Revamp of website.
BBC unveils radical revamp of website. The new Website, which includes blogs & home video, aims to focus digital content around 3 main concepts “share”, “Find” and “Play”. It should allow users to have access to more archived material, via “MyBBCPlayer”, which seems to be the iBBC player renamed. I took part in the iBBC…