The edublogs awards were set up by incsub – who claim “We’re a new service set up partly through a frustration with current mainstream online teaching and learning technologies (& the pedagogies they inflict!) and partly through a desire to explore the possibilities that wikis, weblogs, open source CMSs and other emerging technologies offer us….
Blogging IT and EDucation
Communications of the ACM
The most recent copy of the Communications of the ACM focusses on many aspects of Blogging. There are articles in it looking at several aspects. Kumar et. al have looked at things like Geographical distribution of bloggers – and some demographics of blog users (for example, they have found a cluster of UK blogs about…
Megaconference VI
Megaconference VI:” Megaconference VI, the Worldwide Videoconference over Advanced Networks” A Global Video Conference. Running from 1pm UK time (for 15 hours) there is a comprehensive program of short talks. As they have archived previous years conferences, then hopefully this years will be archived too….
blogs in higher education
This post in blogsperiment: looks at the role of blogs in Academia, by examining two other posts – and subsequent comments about blogs in Higher Education. Several points come out, such as the parallel between having a blog with comments (by other academics in the field) and peer reviewed publications – and also whether or…
Open Source software and eLearning
Campus-technology have written an overview of how cost patterns might differ between setting up a commercial eLearning environment and an open source one. Among those mentioned in the report are Sakai, and Moodle. For example, they are suggesting that while 8% of the total budget is required for staff development and training for proprietary software,…
O Danny Boy
The Blog of a student following a Masters in Interaction Design. Danny has kept his blog for sometime – and it’s an interesting example of how 1 student is using a blog. He was also interviewed about his blog by Masih Nichani, on elearningpost….
Google Scholar OpenURLs – Firefox Extension
Google Scholar OpenURLs – Firefox Extension This is an extension for Firefox that will link into the OpenURL service. OpenURL is a protocol that will alter a general URL (such as those provided by Google) to one specific to your location. However, your location needs to have an OpenURL service, and as far as I…
Sakai Project
Sakai Project This is a project run by The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, and the uPortal consortium. Their aims are: A framework that builds on the recently ratified JSR 168 portlet standard and the OKI open service interface definitions to create a services-based, enterprise portal for tool delivery A re-factored set of…
CiteULike:
A free online service to organize your academic papers: This seems like a useful tool, especially if you are working on several different computers. It’s an online library, where you can store references for academic journals. They say: CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they…
Blogging Software
At the moment I am looking at other blogging software. Most of those that I’m looking at require hosting on a server, though quite a few are open source software, so once you have the server space, that’s it as far as cost goes. Word Press I’m quite impressed with Word Press. It has a…