The Blog of a student following a Masters in Interaction Design. Danny has kept his blog for sometime – and it’s an interesting example of how 1 student is using a blog. He was also interviewed about his blog by Masih Nichani, on elearningpost….
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
CiteULike:
A free online service to organize your academic papers: This seems like a useful tool, especially if you are working on several different computers. It’s an online library, where you can store references for academic journals. They say: CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they…
Blogging Software
At the moment I am looking at other blogging software. Most of those that I’m looking at require hosting on a server, though quite a few are open source software, so once you have the server space, that’s it as far as cost goes. Word Press I’m quite impressed with Word Press. It has a…
Blog tops US dictionary hit list – ZDNet UK News
Blog – the most looked up word. Merriam-Webster, an online dictionary reported that the most looked up word in its online dictionary this year was Blog. The dictionary itself, by the way, has moved from being a predominantly free, ad supported site, to a paid for, ad-free site….
New Look
I’ve been working on ensuring accessibility of assessments that are created with Perception recently. One site that I used a lot was Glish to help me with creating scalable fonts. (It’s also useful for all things to do with .css). They had a Blogger template which had scalable text, though I wasn’t so keen on…
wBloggar
This is a test posting using w.bloggar – from http://www.wbloggar.com It’s a Java application that will allow you to create blog posts offline & then post them….
Kiwi Wiki
Kiwi Wiki: KiwiWiki This is a wiki – set up specifically for a 3 week lecture tour of New Zealand being given by Alan Levine from Maricopa Community Colleges. The lectures – and therefore the Blog, cover ePortfolios, Blogs, RSS, etc etc etc….
Accessibility of the Blogging Revolution
Accessibility of the Blogging Revolution This is an abstract of a paper that was presented at the 2004 Technology & People with disabilities Conference (California State University). It’s got some useful references, though it’s a bit ironic that it doesn’t look very good in Firefox….
RSS Feeds
I’ve just been experimenting with putting a RSS (Rich Site Summary, or RDF Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication – depends on who you ask!) feed onto my site. It’s taken from the Edu RSS at Stephen Downes’ site. There is more about RSS and some of its potential uses at http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ My original plan had…
Warwick Blogs
Warwick Blogs Warwick University has started to allow all students to create a blog – so when they get a computer account, as well as an email account, they also all get space for a blog. As you can see in the heading they suggest that the blog can be used to ” Write.Reflect.Review.Share.Record.Question.Blog” –…