… hmmm, something tells me that I should spend more time that I’m about to on considering the free curriculum discussion from Wales>Reynolds>Downes>Reynolds>Downes. (reminds me of something Greg Ritter used to do… come back Greg… please!) Here’s my take… in 95% of cases curriculum is artificial, unhelpful and obstructive. Learning has in many contexts become …
Yearly Archives: 2005
300!
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Passed 250 over the weekend!
Wow… we passed 250 over the weekend which now gives us 254 edublogs. Not bad for a first week :) Personally I’ve just spent the last two days plumbing, tiling, painting and at Bunnings… so haven’t had a chance to do anything in terms of features… but have very sore hands and am not sure …
Gizmo
Gizmo looks interesting as a SIP based Skype alternative … is anyone using it? If you are and wanna try it out… my username is, as ever, jamesnfarmer
# iB #23
The names are getting more abstract but the images are getting simpler… Lindon has definitely helped me realise the value of and multiple uses of blogs and is and incsub blogger that most certainly motivated me to give this a wider go, good stuff. Larger image and more.
subverted links
infOpinions?: Anniversary Week :: The Upside (um, and Downside) of Classroom BloggingVery interesting post on the goods and bads of student blogging. Well worth reading.
Scriblerus Club
“We must address the issue of improving the numbers of white, middle-class students who drop out. The sooner we get the bottom half of the students out of the schools, the sooner we will see the improvements in academic performance in this last, critical time period before the ravening generational horde is released on society…” …
Institutional negativity…
I know *exactly* how Pete feels… it’s all pervasive, must hide! “I have been reflecting on why I haven’t considered before whether blogs could be much use in education, except as an occasional off-task thought. After all I have been blogging, on political websites and others for some time. Shamefully, I find myself coming to …
Multi-user blogging flare up
Hey, looks like edublogs has kicked off a bit of an interesting discussion about mult-user blogging (and whether we should call it that). Just in case anyone’s missed it I should probably make mention of my earlier overview… still fairly up to date. I reckon I’m probably due a review of that soon… although a …
Blogs badge
Now if you were feeling *really* generous you could pop this on your sidebar for a couple of weeks / months :o) Update: More colours added, please feel free to make your own with this png if you like.