http://incsub.org Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:19:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm delighted to announce that the next generation of edublogs.org, supported by The Chalkface Project, is officially launched today! Firstly, the generous support of Chalkface means that edublogs.org (and associated sites) are now running on their own dedicated server. That means more bandwidth, more storage space, better performance and an ... http://incsub.org/2006/next-gen-edublogs-10 Quite wonderfully Blogtalk Downunder has inspired, in part, New Zealand's first International blog conference... Blog Hui. So why don't ya go and make a bunch of kiwis very very happy by proposing a paper, poster, praxis or workshop... beautiful Wellington combined with a quick scoot round the island sounds ... http://incsub.org/2005/blog-hui Well, down here in Australia it's spring and as a result of the success of edublogs.org a bit of spring cleaning is required at the old incsub premises... I won't be removing anything that is currently in use but if you have had set up and haven't used an application ... http://incsub.org/2005/incsub-spring-cleaning Well, finally the completely obvious thing to do dawned on me. WPMU + edublogs.org = Free education blogs for anyone who darn well wants them. And that's about it really. WPMU at edublogs.org provides anyone who wants it with a free version of the latest (checkout 1.6!) version of WordPress. First up you'll get ... http://incsub.org/2005/free-education-blogs-edublogsorg incsub readers might be interested in a couple of items that I've posted over at Blogsavvy about how you should and how you should not use blogs in education, an extract: "Never never approach blogs as discussion boards, listservs or learning management systems: Almost invariably the first thing people do when ... http://incsub.org/2005/how-you-should-and-should-not-use-blogs-in-education Just so you know... incsub is offline this week moving into / renovating it's latest, um, premises :o) Anything urgent you can contact James on +61 (0)405 703 923 http://incsub.org/2005/week-off Got this email today which I reprint, very happily, with permission. As much a testament to the spread of open source, the difference a little empowerment makes and the vitality of this teacher! "Hello James, It was a long semester. I have really learned alot using TikiWiki, WP Blog, and Moodle. In ... http://incsub.org/2005/making-a-difference It looks like of late there has been a fair bit of noise around and interest in using Blojsom for student blogs. As it's also it's the only one that I didn't get to test-drive when thinking about student blog systems a bit back I thought I'd have a roll ... http://incsub.org/2005/using-blojsom-for-students-blogs Drumroll please... I'd like to introduce a new blog... my new blog to be precise! Blogsavvy is part a creature of me wanting to write about blogging a lot more, part result of my belief that blogs are here to stay and are capable of making an enormous positive difference in ... http://incsub.org/2005/blogsavvy-your-professional-blogging-consultant This workshop looks at the possibilities and challenges in the use of weblogs in education... I'm running it in about 45 minutes and have put up, for yer pleasure, the slides and audio recordings for each one (done rather late last night, excuse any uming and ahing). So if you're interested, ... http://incsub.org/2005/using-weblogs-a-second-ltug-workshop