Teens no longer watching TV According to an article in the Guardian, teenagers are now more likely to put the PC on when they get home, and head off towards MySpace, than they are to put the TV on. The current trend in the UK is Bebo, which now has 4 million users in the…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
My Space – Cheat Sheet for parents.
Wired News: gives some suggestions for parents whose children are using MySpace. MySpace is a blogging site, more like MSN Spaces than blogger, and it’s very much the domain of teenagers. Dana Boyd recently published a paper on data from my space, and Wired refer back to it….
edublogs.org 1.0
edublogs.org have just announced that they’ve now got substantial funding from Chalkface – a UK based Educational Publishing company. One of the plus points of that is that if you’ve got an Edublog blog, you can now have the ability to use Yacapaca to create online assessment for your students. I also see that in…
Alan Levine has written a thoughtful post about how we are using blogs in Education – the fact that they are often shortlived, tied to the teacher, not always allowing the student to really develop their personality. Links also to the Northern Voice Conference, which sounds like it was good….
The tag-cloud replaces the basic menu – Is this a good idea?
Rashmi asks this of a site that’s using a tag cloud as the primary navigation. Given that I’m currently struggling with trying to balance categorising & tagging – I think that there is a possibility for both, to me, categorising is more static, tagging more dynamic, however, I’ve got to get the balance between them…
Outstanding edublogs.org posts
James Farmer links to a variety of outstanding posts at Edublogs via: Steven Downes…
Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the HE Sector
Williams & Jacobs in AJET (.pdf) Found by following a link from Christopher Sessum’s Wiki. I’ve not fully read this yet, but seems to support the use of blogs. From a quick skim, this has some academic references to other papers, and then a study of their use on an MBA course, as an option…
blogs and wikis – why, how and who?
Abject Learning: Please respond: blogs and wikis – why, how and who? It’s a little late to respond now, as Brian’s talk was in January. However, the links that others have posted – how they are using Blogs & Wikis in Education are worth following & cover a variety of uses….
Bloglines – playing up?
I’m wondering if bloglines is playing up at the moment. It seems to be picking up feeds from here that I know I’ve “read” on Bloglines, but most bizarrely, when I decided to see what it was showing in the related feeds, they were all knitting & crochet sites. ?!…
Blog tools.
Amanda was discussing the upgrade of WordPress to 2.0.1 (not done that myself, sticking to 2.0 for the present). However, she mentioned Ultimate Tag Warrior, and after a couple of hints from her (thanks), I’ve now got it installed on here. I also saw the Feed2Podcast links on Quentin D’Souza’s site and have added them…