Elgg and WebCT Now this looks interesting. It makes me almost regret that I’d decided not to go to the WebCT Conference next week! Via Steven Downes…
edublogs.org have just announced that they’ve now got substantial funding from Chalkface – a UK based Educational Publishing company. One of the plus points of that is that if you’ve got an Edublog blog, you can now have the ability to use Yacapaca to create online assessment for your students. I also see that in…
Alan Levine has written a thoughtful post about how we are using blogs in Education – the fact that they are often shortlived, tied to the teacher, not always allowing the student to really develop their personality. Links also to the Northern Voice Conference, which sounds like it was good….
Icarus Diving has a very funny report on some new feature or other in Google. It’s not one I’ve found before, it seems to be searches that are popular & similar to the one you’re just doing. I love his (her?) theories about why people might be asking “How do you use…?” Via Apophenia…
Rashmi asks this of a site that’s using a tag cloud as the primary navigation. Given that I’m currently struggling with trying to balance categorising & tagging – I think that there is a possibility for both, to me, categorising is more static, tagging more dynamic, however, I’ve got to get the balance between them…
James Farmer links to a variety of outstanding posts at Edublogs via: Steven Downes…
Williams & Jacobs in AJET (.pdf) Found by following a link from Christopher Sessum’s Wiki. I’ve not fully read this yet, but seems to support the use of blogs. From a quick skim, this has some academic references to other papers, and then a study of their use on an MBA course, as an option…
BBC NEWS | Education | Communication aids under threat The Government are stopping funding the CAP project – which helped students buy communication aids. In the past, when at Treloar College, I worked a lot with students who used them, to see the transformation when someone got one for the first time ……
Blackboard vs. Moodle A look by a single institution at the pros & cons of Blackboard & Moodle. They come down (just) on the side of Moodle, though they already have Blackboard. Ties in well with Michael Feldstein’s report on the cost of Blackboard a few weeks ago. Via Steven Downes…
Abject Learning: Please respond: blogs and wikis – why, how and who? It’s a little late to respond now, as Brian’s talk was in January. However, the links that others have posted – how they are using Blogs & Wikis in Education are worth following & cover a variety of uses….