Shanta Rohse writes about what she sees as the links between blogging and communities. Seems like a useful blog in addition to this particular post; it’s one I found with a bit of link clicking. This is so addictive though, and not getting coursework marked!…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Collaborative Learning Activities Using Social Software Tools
Virtual Canuck » Collaborative Learning Activities Using Social Software Tools Some great ideas in a linked Writely doc! Can’t comment on his site though, as it’s closed for comments at the moment. 🙁 I did, however, have a bit of a browse round the public bits of Me2U – which looks useful. They’re using Elgg,…
Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed
Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed A nice review of Moveable Type (takes a long time to set up), WordPress (editing the templates can be fiddly) & Textpattern – (sounds very promising, though I’d not heard of it before) From reading that article, it sounds that WordPress was a better choice than Moveable type…
The Edublog Awards
The Edublog Awards Winners of the 2005 EduBlogs. It’s good to see that there are some that I’m following, such as Anne Davies’ Edublog Insights, some that I dip in and out of, such as Konrad’s Blog of Proximal Development – so I know that I’ve found useful blogs. However, it’s even better to have…
Learning on the Move
I recently attended a joint meeting of the CETIS Accessibility & Educational Content SIGs – which had some useful material. There are links to most of the presentations there. Paul Trafford has a nice summary on his blog. Australian Flexible Learning Framework – also has some useful, related material….
'Educore' to Aid Collaboration
EduCore A wikipage (so might change), discussing the implications of utilising Open Source in HE, and some of the issues blocking its use. Fuchs suggets that were more universities to collaborate over open source projects (e.g. Sakai), then the support etc., would be there. Via: OL daily…
Boys and Learning This actual post is thinking about whether or not e-books might be a way to get boys reading. What I’ve found interesting is the fact that Last year, 60% of boys in Washington State failed the test, compared to 54% of girls (See TeleRead for more info) A recent UK report suggested…
Wikipedia – in the News
There’s been a rush recently of reports about Wikipedia – starting with Wikipedia tightening the rules , quickly followed by Wikipedia joker eats humble pie. Now, it seems that Nature have compared the accuracy of information on both Wikipedia and Britannica, and have found that there’s little difference in the number of inaccuracies between the…
apophenia: should i participate in a government panel?
An interesting dilemma …. I’d say “Go for it, danah”. You are unlikely to be able to influence them that much, but who knows. You’ll probably learn far more….
CanCore: LOM Tools
CanCore: LOM Tools List of tools that support creation of Learning Object Metadata….