Konrad Golgowski has developed some very nice sheets to help his students “Grow a blog”. I’ve just been pointing my students to his Personal progress chart and self assessment chart – and decided to have a look at the Teaching and Learning set – which lead me to the Grow a blog. Simple, but so effective!…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Blogs, tablet and Blip
I’ve had this bookmarked for a while now, Ma222 Statistical Analysis – it’s a blog (now a little static) in which the lecturer has used a tablet PC, captured what’s going on and uploaded it to Blip TV to demonstrate aspects of stats. Nice and simple – and in several ways quite similar to Alan…
The Web is Agreement
Paul Downey has uploaded an image “The Web is Agreement” to Flickr. It’s a very rich image, and well worth spending some time looking at. He’s created a set of images, and has also created a very clear .pdf (A2) that can be downloaded. In the comments, others have referred to Tim Berners-Lee’s diagram, and…
Panoramio – Photos of the World
Panoramio – Photos of the World Nice Google maps based application (one of many!) which tags photos to locations. I’ve also had Imagini bookmarked for a while. The idea behind that is that you can select photos that represent your personality – and find other members based on that. They call it “Visual DNA”…
Well, if They're Already Using It …
Andy Guess writes in Inside Higher Ed about various ideas that cropped up at the Educause conference – considering tools that students are using, and how/ if those should be incorporated into institutional offering. One example he quoted was Northwestern’s decision to use gmail for their email system. The advantages were that the students were getting…
It's the all new Edublog Awards!
The Edublogs are back! This year there are 19 categories – 18 of which you can nominate & then vote for. The presentation this year is going to be in SecondLife – and they’ve got a Virtual World category. There is also a link in the post to the Digizen Awards – about Cyberbullying….
Mistaken Identities…
I’ve just approved a “trackback” (a post that was posted on someone else’s site referring to one of my posts). Curiously, he (or she) thinks I’m called “Longscorner”. But, it’s not just me that has the wrong identity. All the posts (which seem to be culled from RSS feeds) seem to have the wrong original…
Google's OpenSocial.
I’ve already mentioned OpenSocial – which has clearly been attracting a lot of interest. Erik Schonfeld comments on TechCrunch, that no consumers have yet changed their social networking usage. Yet. He goes on to quote Andreesen (from Ning) saying that this will simply make application developers’ lives easier – as they’ll essentially have to develop…
150 years of news.
The Guardian and the Observer have just launched a DigitalArchive At present, they have the Guardian from 1821, the Observer from 1900 – both to 1975. Eventually they’ll have the Observer back to 1791, and both up to 2003. Rather than the current online editions – this is a full archive, adverts and all. The…
"Fiction" meets "real".
ToxicShark is a blog that’s been mentioned several times on the BBC’s Casualty; it’s a blog which is somewhat less than complementary about members of the staff of Holby’s A & E. (The rest of the hospital hasn’t, as yet, come under criticism). I leave you to decide which is “fiction” and which “real”!…