blog@USF The University of South Florida is another Uni offering blogging to all students. The take up has been quite impressive so far, given that not all students can them up. They’ve been using WordPRess 1.2 – with the LDAP authentication that Alistair Young , has written. Eric, the developer has made the code available,…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Just do it … blog it
Just do it … blog it Another review of Warwick Blogs. Sone students are very positive Helen Ryan, a second-year physics student, began blogging in October and is one of the more active users. “When I started I was simply using it to vent about things in my personal life.” Support came from other bloggers…
Search optimization, not search engine optimization
Search optimization, not search engine optimization This supports a point I’ve tried to make to students on several occasions – quite often it’s poor search terms that lead to poor results … but trying to convince some of that. From the point of view though of the WDIE course, where they are Webmasters/ mistresses, clearly…
Bblog: The Blackboard Weblog: Everybody's Blogging
Bblog: The Blackboard Weblog: Everybody’s Blogging Blackboard are thinking about adding blogging into the next version … While I like the idea of this – a single interface, I do hope that they are going to esure that the blog is visible outside the Blackboard environment, or I think a lot of the potential will…
E-learning Strategy
A couple of useful articles/ longer blog entries about how an e-learning strategy might be developed. Godfrey Parkin has a more commercial overview in his, Parkin’s Lot: Defining an E-Learning Strategy, where Steven Downes focusses on Some Principles of Effective eLearning . The Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness have also produced a report “What are…
Eportfolios
elearnspace. Eportfolios Lots of information about, and examples of, ePortfolios. The site as a whole has a lot of useful information….
Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)
betterdays » Blog Archive » Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday) I’m already a user of Bloglines, but, for anyone who isn’t – this is a very comprehensive set of screen shots about how to both use Bloglines, and find useful feeds (though the suggestions that Bloglines makes and…
LAMS Foundation
LAMS Foundation LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) was launched as Open Source Software in April. LAMS is developed at Macquarie – where James Dalziel, among others works. It wil be interesting to see how this matches up to both other open source systems (Boddington & Moodle), and also to commercial systems such as WebCT….
mamamusings: teaching a workshop for awc
mamamusings: teaching a workshop for awc AWC here being “Association for Women in Computing” – and the presentation is about Blogs and Wikis – a good introduction to the similarities and differences – with an emphasis on the social side of things. Could well be useful for student reference for KMET next year….
School creates its own Sim City
BBC NEWS | England | Kent | School creates its own Sim City A group of schoolchildren are learning about urban planning issues with the help of a specially-adapted version of a computer game. This is a specially adapted version of SimCity with local features. It’s designed to increase the children’s awareness & understanding of…