EdTechUK: Edublog Meetup3 I’m hoping to get to this on Saturday – looks like it will be interesting – getting to meet people that I’ve somewhat got to know through their writing, but having no idea what they’re *really* like ……
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
BBC – The Feed Factory
BBC – The Feed Factory A colourful “dummies” guide to RSS feeds in general & the BBC’s in particular. Looks good for those new to feeds….
Blogging course.
English 4040 Arrived here via a slightly circuitous route (starting from a link in Will Richard’s blog, then to the schedule for Unit 1. This is a list of resources etc., which I suspect will grow as the term progresses. Looking at the blog for the course Since I didn’t really care to read about…
Upgrading to 2.0
I finally managed it the other day. I’m not sure what I was doing wrong, though I suspect that the fact that I didn’t have much webspace wasn’t helping, when trying to extract files etc. After a lot of attempting to delete whole directories in WS-FTP lite (is there a way to get it to…
What's going on inside our heads.
Anne Davies has made an insighful post about the reflective side of blogging; she’s got a list of questions she tells her students to think about when blogging; then links to other blog posts about reflection. Demonstrates that she’s well deserved her EduBlog award!…
So I have a blog
Tim Berners-Lee has a blog As he says: In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute So, after doing a lot of offline content creating,…
Grading Blogs
Blogs / Weblogs in Higher Education We haven’t yet started to grade blog use, though I have attempted to grade contributions to discussion boards. These seem like some useful pointers though – covering both technical and pedagogic points….
Using Blogs to Teach Philosophy
Using blogs to teach philosophy. This opens with the statement Students taking their first philosophy course often express surprise when encouraged to use I in their papers. Unlike academic writing in most other disciplines, philosophical writing frequently and strongly states the I because philosophers have to develop and defend their own positions. They cannot weasel…
Blogs and Communities
Shanta Rohse writes about what she sees as the links between blogging and communities. Seems like a useful blog in addition to this particular post; it’s one I found with a bit of link clicking. This is so addictive though, and not getting coursework marked!…
Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed
Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed A nice review of Moveable Type (takes a long time to set up), WordPress (editing the templates can be fiddly) & Textpattern – (sounds very promising, though I’d not heard of it before) From reading that article, it sounds that WordPress was a better choice than Moveable type…