Lucy Gray has posed this question in advance of a workshop she’s doing at MacWorld. The first caused me to stop and think and do a bit of research – just when did I write my first blog post? And why. (You’ll have to read the comments in her post if you want to know…
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Slideshare – a few issues.
I’m giving a talk for the library tomorrow, about Blogs and Wikis. It’s really just to get them going to start to think about how libraries are using blogs and wikis. I put the slides up in slideshare, but have just discovered that if you want to have links in a slideshow, the link needs…
WordPress 2.1 – out now
I saw the links & off I went. Not quite as successful as upgrading to 2.0.7 – as we’ve not got MySQL 4.anything on this server. So I had to uninstall. As I’d not properly backed up the most recent version, and I’m not in my Office, I’ve had to revert to 2.0.5 (the most…
Personal vs Business
Lilia has been looking at aspects of blogging, how much of work based blogs is personal and personally initiated, and how much is controlled by the work place. I’ve used her excel file to generate an image for mine, though I think that possibly some of the dimensions – that she generated from data gathered…
Web 2.0 and virtual collaborative Clinical Practice
Researchers from Plymouth have a range of ideas for how Web 2.0 tools (predominantly blogs/ wikis/podcasts) might be used for Clinical practice education. They have links to a range of sites (including a FluWiki) This might well tie in with the work we’re looking at in the ExPRET Centre….
Audio blogs
I’ve looked in the past at setting up audio for this blog, to enhance accessibility. The options, when I first investigated were either to record everything myself – which would have been very slow, or to use a plugin that read it. The first that I tried was Feed2podcast, which I set up, though ultimately…
RSS into WebCT.
One of the things that I’ve been doing with the ExPERT centre is looking at the WebCT site -to see how it can be improved. One issue that struck me was the news page. It’s not that interactive. So, I initially wondered if it was possible to have an RSS feed from WebCT, but have…
ExPERT Centre
I’ve recently started a .4 secondment to the ExPERT Centre ((Excellence in Professional development through Education, Research & Technology). It’s one of the two Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) that we have at Portsmouth. I’ll be looking at a number of things, but blogs, online communities and other related matters are likely…
Elgg Spaces launch interview with Dave & Ben
Josie Fraser has posted about an interview with Dave and Ben. Though she’s called it “Elgg Spaces”, it’s actually about far more than just Elgg spaces. It covers much of the current situation of Elgg. As some of you know, I’ve decided to move the MSc Students from Blogger to Elgg. I’d hoped that we’d…
Elgg – social network software for education
Steve O’Hear has posted two linked articles, the first looking at Web technologies and education in general, the second concentrating on Elgg. Having looked at different tools, I’m keen to start to use Elgg with the MSc eLearning students, rather than Blogspot. We had hoped to set up our own server, though that might not…