Blogorrhea and blogs vs cellulose

Doug Johnson I think that I’ve definitely got “Blogorrhea” today. (And, suspect that I’ve had “Blogstipation” over the past few weeks!)…

Internet – Friend or Foe of Learning

Terraviva , an online edition of TerraViva, have a report from the recent World Summit on the Information Society, looking at the reaction of some Chilean schools to the “problems” introduced by allowing children to Word process homework (plagiarism being the main issue). Other teachers are commenting on the fact that while computers have been…

Writely – Process Words with your Browser

Writely – Process Words with your Browser A tool based on ajax – so “web 2.0” type technologies – which allows you to create “Word” documents online – without the need for MS Office … Originally found on TechCrunch, which has quite a few other interesting looking posts ……

Freesound Reaches 10000 Files

Slashdot | Freesound Reaches 10000 Files This isn’t a source for free music … just free sounds. However, as there are so many files, it could well be a good source for multimedia projects etc. The site is currently offline. I’m not sure if that’s a temporary thing, or just massive growth in usage (by…

Blogging as Attempts at Understanding

Konrad Glogowski in his blog “Blog of Proximal Development” looks at how students can start to use blogs to help them understand. This particular post is a write up of a workshop he ran for pre-service teachers, talking about his research. The whole site looks useful – given then name, it’s no surprise to see…

More than just copy and paste

Plagiarism hit the news in the UK, when the fact that a significant number of students at GCSE & A-level have indulged in some form of “illegal” activities in the production of coursework – beit plagiarism, parental help, teachers helping etc. In this article, Saunders looks at the impact of plagiarism in schools & Universities….

edublogs being blocked!!! at incorporated subversion

edublogs being blocked!!! It seems that many States in Australia, as well as some UK LEAs judging by the comments in the post, have started to bulk block URLs that have “blog” in the title. (Reminds me of the cases of references to “Scunthorpe” being filtered out…) Darren Kuropatwa has a good summary of many…