Category: Blogs, RSS etc

The Community Engine Blog: A Learning Blogosphere (1): Into the Deep A good overview of a project setting out to get a group of non-technical students to use Blogs during a course. Gibson, the lecturer, was also able to get a number of high profile bloggers to contribute to the project. Though they were (at…

Blogsavvy: (James Farmer) summarises a paper that he’s hoping to have accepted for ASCILITE later this year. There’s also a related post, how TO use blogs in Education (both this, and the paper are linked from here). I agree with most of the points that he makes, predominantly that a blog is a personal, rather…

blogsperiment: Blogs versus Discussion Boards Quite a good overview of the differences between Blogs and Discussion boards. One point raised is that a single person can cause havoc on a board, whereas with Blogs, even if you have a group of related blogs (all personal), then the activities of one user won’t impact on the…

The plethora of posts today was simply a case of going through all those things that I’ve been bookmarking etc., in the past month, while getting caught up with marking and all those other end of term things….

Innovate – Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer Input A useful paper – the synopsis says: Stuart Glogoff expounds on the educational applications of blogs—simple Web pages that can have surprisingly complex classroom applications. Situating his commentary in the context of pedagogical theory, Glogoff outlines the ways in which blogs can enable receptive…

Remote Authoring of Mobile Blogs for Learning Environments Oxford are working on a JISc project, looking at blogging on the move. The project has been going on for some time, and I’ve used it for reference in the past, though just never mentioned it here before. I certainly like the idea of being able to…

UoP Blogs WOW!! Here was me looking at trying to get a blogging system set up – and Julian emailed this morning to say that there was 1… At the moment though it doesn’t seem to be self registering for posting, and I’m not sure if it’s multiple blogs or a single multiple user blog….

blog@USF The University of South Florida is another Uni offering blogging to all students. The take up has been quite impressive so far, given that not all students can them up. They’ve been using WordPRess 1.2 – with the LDAP authentication that Alistair Young , has written. Eric, the developer has made the code available,…

Just do it … blog it Another review of Warwick Blogs. Sone students are very positive Helen Ryan, a second-year physics student, began blogging in October and is one of the more active users. “When I started I was simply using it to vent about things in my personal life.” Support came from other bloggers…