The 2007 eddies are just round the corner … this time they’re happening in Second Life – though there are some alternatives. The latest news, as well as the locations are listed on the Edublog Awards Blog. There are quite a few more categories than last year – some nominees are the same as last…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
There's No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere
Alex Iskold (Readwrite web) looks at people in the “Long tail”, primarily from a financial point of view. He makes several useful points; that those that join the blogosphere (much the same as Second Life, or any real life community) often have to work much harder to gain the same respect/ money/ whatever, than those…
Facebook – terms of usage.
Facebook have just altered some of their terms of use. I’m not sure what’s changed, and I’ve not read them all. I’ve just skim read the first couple of sections: Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. This Site is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older, and…
The New Web Literacy
The New Web Literacy Notes from a presentation by Dave Millard at Southampton. I was invited to this (and to the others they’ve had this term, but I teach on Wednesdays & can’t get from Portsmouth to Southampton in 5 minutes!) He raises some useful points about using Web based tools – both the traditional…
Blogging Parent Letter
Clay Burrell (his name is really quite hidden on the site – luckily his commenters knew who he was), has shared a letter he uses to send home with his students for blogging. They’re 17, so, in theory “mature”, but clearly still under 18. While it clearly isn’t appropriate in its current form, the sort…
Freefolio – a social e-Portfolio
Graham Attwell has just launched a portfolio based on WordPress. That makes it easy to fill up – and it makes use of the structured blogging plugin to create some specialised posts. I can see that some of the post types – such as “Learning Event” would be very useful, though I could see that…
How to Grow a Blog
Konrad Golgowski has developed some very nice sheets to help his students “Grow a blog”. I’ve just been pointing my students to his Personal progress chart and self assessment chart – and decided to have a look at the Teaching and Learning set – which lead me to the Grow a blog. Simple, but so effective!…
Blogs, tablet and Blip
I’ve had this bookmarked for a while now, Ma222 Statistical Analysis – it’s a blog (now a little static) in which the lecturer has used a tablet PC, captured what’s going on and uploaded it to Blip TV to demonstrate aspects of stats. Nice and simple – and in several ways quite similar to Alan…
The Web is Agreement
Paul Downey has uploaded an image “The Web is Agreement” to Flickr. It’s a very rich image, and well worth spending some time looking at. He’s created a set of images, and has also created a very clear .pdf (A2) that can be downloaded. In the comments, others have referred to Tim Berners-Lee’s diagram, and…
It's the all new Edublog Awards!
The Edublogs are back! This year there are 19 categories – 18 of which you can nominate & then vote for. The presentation this year is going to be in SecondLife – and they’ve got a Virtual World category. There is also a link in the post to the Digizen Awards – about Cyberbullying….