EduBlog Insights : EduBlog Insights I’ve seen some posts from Anne before, but for whatever reason, always had difficulty accessing her site. I’m glad that I’ve found it again, as this is a useful post. While referencing Helen Chen from Stanford, Anne says: that the learning environment that students reside in is one that is…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
Blog Meister
Blog Meister This is a site designed for setting up blogs – for students. There are a number of points at which the teacher can audit the posts, prior to them appearing live (see the flowchart at the side of the main post) Another feature that they’ve implemented is TagCloud, which I’m just about to…
Wikis about Blogging.
Pedersondesigns – Pd – and Bud’s Blogging Experiment are both Wikis about blogs. The former (at present) is quite small & has a page really designed for educators – to help them initially think about blogging for themselves, then how to get their students blogging. He’s got an .xml file of useful Educational Blogs which…
The new commentariat
The Guardian has an indepth report on Political Blogging (not blogs by politicians). The blogs themselves cover a wide range of political view points. The article suggests that the phrase “weblog” was probably coined by Barger, posting daily updates in 1997 to his webpage about the Israeli/Palestine conflict. They also suggest that the shortening to…
All new teachers must have a blog
leigh Blackall reports on an initiative in New South Wales, requiring all new teachers (in schools) to undergo a minimum of 100 hours training (over 5 years). In addition, they have to keep an online log (aka blog) of their professional training needs. All the courses that they attend will have to be evaluated (online)…
feedmap .net (BETA) : Where Blogs Meet Maps
feedmap .net (BETA) : Where Blogs Meet Maps I’ve just registered my Blog with BlogMap. In so doing, I’ve discovered Geo-tagging, which is, presumably behind a lot of the systems that allow you to locate the nearest … The help pages in BlogMap give links to sites that can be used to create them….
The Weblog handbook
While some of the reviews on Amazon weren’t particularly inspiring, I do like this book. It’s not good if you want a “how to” on aspects of blogging – how to meaning “which code do I use to do italics” or “how to do I create my own WordPress theme”.
However, if your how definition to includes aspects such as “becoming a critical writer” or “how to avoid flames” then it’s got a lot of useful pointers.
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Structured Blogging
One of the aspects of Warwick blogs that I particularly liked was the ability to have a number of “templates” to allow users to structure their posts, such as the Book Review posts. Today, in our “research” meeting, we discussed whether or not a blog might be a suitable format for a student to review…
Personal Learning Environments
Personal Learning Environments are getting closer. Attwell, in the Wales Wide Web, reviews a “Personal Learning Environment” project, which is part of JISCs eLearning project. Essentially, rather than a VLE which ties the learners to a very standardised setup, a PLE would put more of the software required on the learners’ PCs, so that they…
Jam & Blogs?
Not baking but blogging. The new face of the WI was the headline on the front of yesterday’s Guardian that caught my eye. The article, though interesting, covered what the WI do today, and, though it has gone beyond Jam making (& the singing of Jerusalem is no longer compulsory), they didn’t really mention blogs,…