For my own record and just in case anyone’s interested here’s the powerpoint (don’t have a heck of a lot of time free!) for my ODLAA gig talking about those cases I mentioned. BTW, anyone who’s in Adelaide and fancies a drink tonight (Tuesday) or tomorrow (Wednesday) night get in touch (or give me a …
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Great new edubloggers!
There really are some fantastic new edubloggers using edublogs.org and now there are several ways you can discover them! First up there’s the ‘Featured Edubloggers’ spot which I’m trying to update every fortnight, this particular trio are well worth checking out: Teaching Generation Z, The Server Room & Smelly Knowledge Then there’s the latest updated …
WPMU Friendly WordPress themes
Ahhhh… a relaxing weekend spent copying & pasting :) Net result is a big ‘ol .zip file of 60 odd WPMU themes which all have screenshots and have been edited so that they are WPMU ‘compliant’ (i.e. they don’t contain links in the template that you have to edit manually). So role over you your …
edublogs.org – a draft plan for the next 12 months
After a few discussions of the future of edublogs.org and forgetting financial viability etc. for the minute I figured that the best thing I could do at this point is to consider where I’d like it to go in the next 3, 6 and 12 months and that the best place to do that would …
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Connections
It certainly is connection season down here as Fang aka LearnDog (who started this whole thing by swingin’ over from Adelaide) says. Had a cracking time on Tuesday talking with ‘im and Cam which then extended to an excellent dinner also organised by Cam in St Kilda where met some very interesting people, especially Phil …
Out of the box
Basically I work day to day in a large concrete box. On a corridor with a view of some leaves obscuring a 6 lane road, in the suburbs… it’s thrilling. But something really cool is happening down under the box in the carpark (another benefit of smoking is that you get to notice these things). …
Looking for mediawiki / php / MySQL hackers
This would be a job posting if we had any money… but we don’t, so it’s a partnership proposal instead. Basically I’m running a couple of projects that involve mediawiki, and me & the other partner in this need an enthusiastic mediawiki hacker (or someone with good php / MySQL expertise) with a bit of …
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Introducing learnerblogs.org and uniblogs.org
Well in an official-esque announcement sense I now pronounce learnerblogs.org and uniblogs.org open for business. Basically these are sites in a similar vein to edublogs.org in that they are seeking to provide free blogs, but this time for K12 school students and university / college students. learnerblogs.org is basically born of demand. Soooo many teachers …
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