BlogScholar Another blogging site … this time, for academics. On a quick view, I like the fact that I can link my own blog to it (with EduBlogs, I had to create yet another blog to join … I know that there are a lot of 1 post blogs, I wonder how many belong to…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Resistance is useful: Thoughts concerning how to respectfully move teaching and learning online
Christopher D. Sessums looks at the challenges to moving more learning & teaching online. I’ll start with something from his conclusion: educators are presented with a number of challenges in getting students to adopt skills and demonstrate intellectual and practical dexterity of many complex concepts To get to this point, he’d looked at various aspects,…
Government sites 'fail disabled'
BBC NEWS | Technology | Government sites ‘fail disabled’ A recent study has shown that 97% of Government websites that were studied failed somewhere on compliance for accessibility….
Developing Online Communities the Centred Way
Developing Online Communities the Centred Way designed communities need to be focused, energized and purposeful. In the educational context there are many great examples of successful community themes around, for example, research, discipline, faculty, politics etc. We shouldnt over look these. Also, the communities we create need to be focused around individuals rather than separate…
Invited paper: What are the potential uses of Blogs in Teaching and Learning?
Invited paper: What are the potential uses of Blogs in Teaching and Learning? – Andy Ramsden This paper was pointed out to me by Pat in our online session last night – thanks, Pat, it looks very useful….
Flock
I’m just testing Flock … a new browser. It’s very much in beta, but, one of the things that I can do with it, (in theory) is posting directly to a blog. OK, so it’s very like the “Press it” plugin that I have for WordPress, or the BlogIT that I had for blogger ……
Tag Cloud
I’ve just been playing with TagCloud, which I’ve seen on a few sites, such as BlogMeister. I’ve set up one – linked just to this blog. However, though they have said “allow a few minutes”, it’s now a couple of days. I’ve just thought, however, that if it’s going to be using a feed, then…
EduBlog Insights : EduBlog Insights
EduBlog Insights : EduBlog Insights I’ve seen some posts from Anne before, but for whatever reason, always had difficulty accessing her site. I’m glad that I’ve found it again, as this is a useful post. While referencing Helen Chen from Stanford, Anne says: that the learning environment that students reside in is one that is…
Blog Meister
Blog Meister This is a site designed for setting up blogs – for students. There are a number of points at which the teacher can audit the posts, prior to them appearing live (see the flowchart at the side of the main post) Another feature that they’ve implemented is TagCloud, which I’m just about to…
Wikis about Blogging.
Pedersondesigns – Pd – and Bud’s Blogging Experiment are both Wikis about blogs. The former (at present) is quite small & has a page really designed for educators – to help them initially think about blogging for themselves, then how to get their students blogging. He’s got an .xml file of useful Educational Blogs which…