While some of the reviews on Amazon weren’t particularly inspiring, I do like this book. It’s not good if you want a “how to” on aspects of blogging – how to meaning “which code do I use to do italics” or “how to do I create my own WordPress theme”.
However, if your how definition to includes aspects such as “becoming a critical writer” or “how to avoid flames” then it’s got a lot of useful pointers.
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A research service This is a commerical research service. The reason for including it here is that I like the look of the way that they are approaching things. In many ways it’s replicating the sort of approach we might well get the students to take in say, WDIE, but, they don’t all have to…
RedLightGreen — Home This seems like a very useful site! It allows searching of academic books/ research papers etc. Once registered, it’s possible to locate your library & then to link to the library page to check availability of the books etc. When I registered initially, there didn’t seem to be the option to set…
Stephen Downes reports on the upcoming ability of Word Press 1.6 (I’m using 1.5 here) to have easy media integration with Flickr. D’Arcy Norman has screen shots of it in use, and it looks good. Of course, you still have to have the images on Flickr … , but it will be a lot easier…
Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ The Open University Builds Student Online Environment With Moodle and More Yet another mover towards Moodle…….
UNESCO Virtual University Forums UNESCO has been looking at a number of aspects of virtual, multinational universities. They have had several discussions – however, they don’t seem to (easily) make the archives available. I’ve emailed the address given, to see if I can see them… There are some reports online about earlier discussions (e.g. The…
Wikiversity – time to vote – FLOSSE Posse This has actually been in my “drafts” list of posts for sometime, and it was one that I was on the point of deleting. However, in the past couple of days, I’ve seen other references to Wikiversity, and other Wikis, such as Wiki Books (which, I have…
Editor’s week Emily Bell (editor in chief of the Guardian Unlimited) examines the most popular content on the Guardian’s site. Unlike most Newspaper websites, the guardian doesn’t require registration, nor do the articles expire over a certain time. “Armed and Dangerous” – an article about dolphins trained to shoot terrorists, which may have escaped during…
I’ve mentioned in the past that Flickr is one option for including images in blogs. Having just tried to login to it, it seems that it’s now owned by Yahoo! You can combine your Flickr & Yahoo accounts – so it’s a single sign on to both now….
The LA Times Wikitorial fallout The LA Times tried, for a short period to have a Wiki. Following its failure, Ida takes tea, suggested that given the prominence of articles about it in the UK media, then there could be a number of problems: 1. University managers and administrators will be much less likely to…