The Metropolitan Police Force have issued blogging guidelines, that are leading to some Police Officers cease their blogging. The BBC don’t have a link to the guidelines, but they have quoted a few sections: expressing views and opinions that are damaging to the organisation or bring the organisation into disrepute…
Blogging IT and EDucation
OU to bring all course content online
The Guardian reports that all OU material will be online from October. It looks as if the material is going to be open access, as MIT courseware is. I’ve just had a look at the courses that are available at other institutions. Utah State has several in their Information Technology department. I rather like the…
Google buys Writely
The Register reports on the purchase of Writely by Google, seeing it as a potential challenge to MS Office. I’ve used Writely before, and have blogged about it. I like Writely, and, though I used to be a Google fan (I can remember when I was doing my MSc Project, looking at Search Engines, I…
The Ada Project
The Ada Project I’ve just received an inspection copy of Headfirst HTML. One of the authors, Elisabeth Freeman co-founded TAP. Given that it is International Women’s Day today, it seemed a good reason to go and check it out. It looks like a useful resource, though possibly a bit focussed on US resources. UK resources…
EdTechUK: International Edublogging Women's Day 2006
International (Edublogging) Women’s Day 2006 I’ve had this bookmarked for a couple of days now, it seems that today’s a good day to link to Josie’s site – I’ve got quite a few other Women Bloggers Bookmarked, so I’ll post them later in the day….
WordPress Help
WordPress Help Just found this – looks useful!…
Big push for Chinese net domains
Net Domains in Chinese At present, Domain names are all written using Roman characters. China has therefore set up a system that allows domains to be registered in Chinese characters. Subramanian Subbiah, co-founder of I-DNS.net that has worked with China on the Chinese language domains, said the system has been brought in because the government…
Show and tell online
Teens no longer watching TV According to an article in the Guardian, teenagers are now more likely to put the PC on when they get home, and head off towards MySpace, than they are to put the TV on. The current trend in the UK is Bebo, which now has 4 million users in the…
My Space – Cheat Sheet for parents.
Wired News: gives some suggestions for parents whose children are using MySpace. MySpace is a blogging site, more like MSN Spaces than blogger, and it’s very much the domain of teenagers. Dana Boyd recently published a paper on data from my space, and Wired refer back to it….
FreeOnlineEducational Sites
FreeOnlineEducational Sites A good collection of sites. Mostly HE and mostly US based, though LSE & Radio 4 are in there, as well as more general resources such as Merlot. Via: Steven Downes…