Virtual Canuck ยป Educational Social Overlay Networks An interesting first post in a blog. Terry Anderson is looking at the way in which personal webspace (Blogs, portfolios etc) & educational webspace (e.g. libraries, VLEs etc) can & should be combined. He looks at the idea of a Social overlay network – so looking in particular…
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Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web This looks interesting. I’ve not yet read it, but, I’m wondering if things like the Doomsday Project are going to be covered ……
Blogorrhea and blogs vs cellulose
Doug Johnson I think that I’ve definitely got “Blogorrhea” today. (And, suspect that I’ve had “Blogstipation” over the past few weeks!)…
Freesound Reaches 10000 Files
Slashdot | Freesound Reaches 10000 Files This isn’t a source for free music … just free sounds. However, as there are so many files, it could well be a good source for multimedia projects etc. The site is currently offline. I’m not sure if that’s a temporary thing, or just massive growth in usage (by…
Blogging as Attempts at Understanding
Konrad Glogowski in his blog “Blog of Proximal Development” looks at how students can start to use blogs to help them understand. This particular post is a write up of a workshop he ran for pre-service teachers, talking about his research. The whole site looks useful – given then name, it’s no surprise to see…
More than just copy and paste
Plagiarism hit the news in the UK, when the fact that a significant number of students at GCSE & A-level have indulged in some form of “illegal” activities in the production of coursework – beit plagiarism, parental help, teachers helping etc. In this article, Saunders looks at the impact of plagiarism in schools & Universities….
BlogScholar
BlogScholar Another blogging site … this time, for academics. On a quick view, I like the fact that I can link my own blog to it (with EduBlogs, I had to create yet another blog to join … I know that there are a lot of 1 post blogs, I wonder how many belong to…
Flock
I’m just testing Flock … a new browser. It’s very much in beta, but, one of the things that I can do with it, (in theory) is posting directly to a blog. OK, so it’s very like the “Press it” plugin that I have for WordPress, or the BlogIT that I had for blogger ……
Tag Cloud
I’ve just been playing with TagCloud, which I’ve seen on a few sites, such as BlogMeister. I’ve set up one – linked just to this blog. However, though they have said “allow a few minutes”, it’s now a couple of days. I’ve just thought, however, that if it’s going to be using a feed, then…
US heads for internet showdown
The UN World Summit on the Information Society was meant to be concentrating on getting the majority world online … however they’re likely to be looking more at who’s controlling the Internet. “The rest of the world doesn’t want to see US hegemony here, in large part just for symbolic reasons,” says Jonathan Zittrain, Chair…