I’m wondering if bloglines is playing up at the moment. It seems to be picking up feeds from here that I know I’ve “read” on Bloglines, but most bizarrely, when I decided to see what it was showing in the related feeds, they were all knitting & crochet sites. ?!…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Wikis, podcasts, & laptops; students with LD
Cool Cat Teacher Blog Some great ideas for supporting students with Learning Disabilities. It was posted by Vicki Davis, who has a learning disabled sister herself, so has an insight into some of the issues. There are lots of handy hints….
Blog tools.
Amanda was discussing the upgrade of WordPress to 2.0.1 (not done that myself, sticking to 2.0 for the present). However, she mentioned Ultimate Tag Warrior, and after a couple of hints from her (thanks), I’ve now got it installed on here. I also saw the Feed2Podcast links on Quentin D’Souza’s site and have added them…
Free Wikispaces for Teachers
Wikispaces Blog: Free Wikispaces for Teachers Unfortunately not for Lecturers! I’ve used Wikispaces to test out – it seems as good a Wiki as any other, and it’s pretty straight forward to use. For teachers, they are giving them free ones, without the advertising that usually supports the free accounts….
Ascent of women
EducationGuardian.co.uk | comment | Article looking at the massive increase of women in HE. One thing that does surprise me is that But the advance of women overall meant that even in science, maths and computing 40% of the students were women; We’ve certainly not got 40% women….
Call for internet safety lessons
Call for internet safety lessons ust over half had seen pornography on the web, but only four out of 10 said they would tell their parents if something on the net made them feel uncomfortable, she said. The first statistic is worrying, however, the report doesn’t say how that was broken down across the age…
EdTechUK: Edublog Meetup3
EdTechUK: Edublog Meetup3 I’m hoping to get to this on Saturday – looks like it will be interesting – getting to meet people that I’ve somewhat got to know through their writing, but having no idea what they’re *really* like ……
Innovate – February/March 2006 Volume 2, Issue 3
Innovate – February/March 2006 Volume 2, Issue 3 Several useful looking articles… IM for CollaborativeLearning (it seems to be focussing on ESL, but that was only on a very quick skim read) Using Games to promote Girls interest in Technology – which I’ve not even skim read yet, but sounds interesting – especially as many…
Internet serves as 'social glue' – especially if you're female.
BBC report on a Pew Internet Report suggests that they’ve found: But the report, entitled The Strength of Internet Ties, found that e-mail supplements rather than replaces offline communications. Another Pew Report, covered by the BBC at the end of last year, found that the gender divide online has more or less vanished, in terms…
BBC – The Feed Factory
BBC – The Feed Factory A colourful “dummies” guide to RSS feeds in general & the BBC’s in particular. Looks good for those new to feeds….