Tony Karrer links to Michele Martin’s post about a discussion (on a listserve) discussing lists and blogs. (in this case, discussion groups are email based). Michele makes some very pertintent points, such as Blogs offer a place for individuals to process information and put ideas out into the world. I can’t imagine posting some of…
Category: Communication and Communities
I blogged about Gizmo a while ago. Since then I’d more or less forgotten about it, until I read about it recently, when the discussions had come up in Elgg about the difficulties of using Spype in UAE. It would seem from this post in the Gizmo forums that it is allowed there, however, I’m…
The Webcast Academy
The Webcast Academy seems to be a site for educational webcasters. They have a range of information – both “how tos” and recorded webcasts. ONe thing that I found a little frustrating – after registering yet again for yet another site, is that it’s Drupal powered; now, I know that I’ve registered with assorted other…
Sloodle
Second life meets Moodle. Intriguing. Via Stephen Downes…
How to Be a Great Host
John Gladding (A list apart) has some good pointers for setting up an online community – though this particular article is really thinking about social (informal) communities, many of the points he makes can be applied to more formal learning communities….
(re)defining blogs
Christopher D. Sessums is attempting to (re) define “blog”. He suggests that given that blogs are used in more and more diverse ways, should they infact be given different names. The replies that he’s had generally point out that “blog” is really a technology – and then you have to look at the way it’s…
meebo me
I’ve just installed the meebo me widget – so that people can, in theory, chat to me via the webpage. I’m not sure how the firewall will cope, though it has let me talk to myself between the laptop & PC – which are on different parts of the network, though clearly behind the same…
Geotagging images
Flickr now enables you to geotag images. I can see so many ideas for this, for our students to get to know where each other lives, to increase sociability by enabling them to discuss travel/ where their relatives live. On another note, for VSO volunteers, gap year travellers or whatever, it’s a good way to…
Screen Sharing
Robin Good reviews Citrix’s GoToMeeting. It seems to be a pretty impressive tool, though not Free, so perhaps not ideal for students to experiment with. He also links to a post he made a few days ago, which has an overview of what he feels are the differences between “Screen sharing” and “application sharing” –…
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…