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…
I’ve just noticed that all the articles on the BBC now allow you to create Social bookmarking links. They have 5 to choose from -del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Facebook and Stumbleupon….
Vol 13 Issue 1 is just out. It includes several articles on Social Networking. There are several that have interesting looking titles, such as one looking at IM and disruption in the workplace, email flaming, what (if any) differences there are between users and non-users of Social Networking sites, aspects of privacy – and several…
Stan Schroder, on Mashable, looks at aggregation of Social Networks. He quotes Kottke discussing different social networks: since all of them require different credentials to log in, theyre just adding to the noise 20 different tools are listed, most, though not all, are websites. Not that many seem to include Facebook in their set of…
Martin Weller raises several points to support the use of a combination of Web 2.0 type tools, rather than an Institutional VLE. While I think that the points he raises are valuable, and that the combination of tools would make a good set (call it a PLE or not as you like!). I agree with…
Intute have launched a blog. It’s very much of the “news” rather than personal opinion, however, one worth following, I suspect, as the Intute materials are generally useful….
I’ve just tried to delete some messages in my inbox (I’ve found in the past, that I can’t mark as read, I was having to *actually* read them) I’ve now discovered that it’s in Firefox that I can’t delete. IE was quite happy to let me delete. Is this just my set up, or is…
They’re starting to make them. I’ve read quite a few reports, such as CNET’s that goes on to comment on other low cost laptops. What really interests me, though, is the interface and the fairly radical approach to learning that the OLPC brings. It’s not really the hardware (interesting though that is), it’s the software…
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…
This is another post I’ve had in my “drafts” for quite a while. I had actually skim read it this afternoon, as the title that was picked up was just the website name … so “How to save the world”. In this particular post, Dave Pollard looks at the whole range of dynamics of social…