Konrad Glogowski has written a pair of posts about how his relationship changed with his class through blogging. His class is a Grade 8 class, so about 14 years old. He notes, in his first post, that his class moved to a position where rather than him being seen peddling content, he was part of…
Blogging IT and EDucation
HitchHikr
HitchHikr I’ve only just found this, but it seems to be a list of relevant conferences – and links to their sites/ blogs / etc….
How things change
Joyce Valenza has summarised all the aspects that teaching, learning and research has changed as she sees it from the point of view of a librarian – who graduated in 1976 – and her predictions for the future. One to hang onto ……
Research on Social Network Sites
danah boyd has posted a great list of research into Social Network sites. She claims it’s a “start”, but it’s a pretty good start, and more than enough to keep me going for a while!…
Elgg – social network software for education
Steve O’Hear has posted two linked articles, the first looking at Web technologies and education in general, the second concentrating on Elgg. Having looked at different tools, I’m keen to start to use Elgg with the MSc eLearning students, rather than Blogspot. We had hoped to set up our own server, though that might not…
edufilter
David Tosh, who developed Elgg, has set up Edufilter. a space dedicated to reviewing educational projects, software and research It was only launched in August, but already has several useful looking posts … I’ve just been off investigating EdTechTalk – and from there found some more interesting posts….
DOPA
The US based Deleting Online Predators Act 2006 (don’t you just love the name … can you really *delete* a predator?!) lead to a lot of discussion when it was first discussed in May. It was passed in July, though that seems to have attracted rather less attention (possibly because of the problems in the…
Blackboard and Patents
Over the summer, the Edu-blogosphere has been fairly actively following Blackboard’s patent for “eLearning”. Alfred Essa’s Nose has got a pretty good summary of what’s happened so far, and he’s got links to a lot of others view points, though most are pretty much along similar lines. From a UK point of view, it’s worth…
Pew Internet Report – Bloggers.
Pew / Internet published a report looking into aspects of blogging. It is a US centred report, though it is likely that the UK would produce similar results. The data was gathered via telephone interviews, of those who had identified themselves as keeping a blog. Of the data of interest, some 37% said that they…
Blogs and Community
Nancy White has a wonderful set of 5 posts (linked from this last one) discussing the ideas of blogs and community. She’s divided blogs into 3 main types; Blog Centric; Topic Centric and Community Centric. A Blog Centric blog is essentially what this is, I’ve started it, I contribute, and on the odd occasion someone…