Category: Blogs, RSS etc

Guardian Unlimited Books A work place blogger – who works in Waterstones has discovered some of the problems of keeping a work place blog – where the public and your bosses can see it….

Blogging in learning is a presentation put together by Steven Downes. It’s predominantly a set of links to other sites – covering both the practical side of setting things up – and the more theoretical side of using them in the classroom….

The Write Weblog: Blog! Blog!This is a post from a blog maintained by an Elementary school teacher – and her 5th grade class. The reason for putting it in here, was I rather liked the children’s pictures of blogging, which you can see in the photo album in the right hand bar. On the left…

elearnspace: Furl instead of blog: This is looking at the case that not everyone is a blogger. Furl enables the sharing of links. I’m not entirely sure of the difference between Furl and say iKeepbookmarks – which can be set up to be used as a class bookmark – with short comments & grades given…

Selling Warwick Blogs to Warwick, 16/12/04, Soft[ware] SubversionsFor the paper that Terry and I are doing about Blogs, I’ve been looking at other Universities’ uses of Blogs, Warwick is probably the most developed in the UK (though Harvard has had them for longer in the US). This particular entry looks at the potential uses of…

How do I post pictures?: As I’m doing some research for the talk that we are giving next week for the Teaching and Learning Conference, I thought that I’d have a bit of a more indepth look at using images in Blogs. I’ve used PhotoBucket to host the image of me in the profile. Blogger…

Bloglines overload. Know the feeling. 🙁…

The edublogs awards were set up by incsub – who claim “We’re a new service set up partly through a frustration with current mainstream online teaching and learning technologies (& the pedagogies they inflict!) and partly through a desire to explore the possibilities that wikis, weblogs, open source CMSs and other emerging technologies offer us….

The most recent copy of the Communications of the ACM focusses on many aspects of Blogging. There are articles in it looking at several aspects. Kumar et. al have looked at things like Geographical distribution of bloggers – and some demographics of blog users (for example, they have found a cluster of UK blogs about…

This post in blogsperiment: looks at the role of blogs in Academia, by examining two other posts – and subsequent comments about blogs in Higher Education. Several points come out, such as the parallel between having a blog with comments (by other academics in the field) and peer reviewed publications – and also whether or…