An ancient edublog
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 the …
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i d e a n t: Alternatives to Extremism: An Indonesian TravelogueBrilliant.
Part II of my v. summarised series, How you SHOULD use blogs in education, is now online at Blogsavvy. Please do visit and let me know if you agree / add any other significant tips that I’ve missed!
Well, as of about 7.30PM last night I now hold dual nationality… and responsibilities! Now… for the ashes :o)
Hey, guess what, I just got a job offer from the Australian International University. Their mission statement: “To educationalise our globally significant clientele for maximum ROI with a view to a spectacular IPO.” Very very funny, 10/10 for whoever put this up. Oh, and of course, I accept!
Very funny. [via Andy Lark]
Matt Mullenweg podcasted at InfoTalk: “My goal is to …. get as many people a blog as possible and make it free and make it easy to use and we’ve got a few billion people to go.” Absolutely.
Serious call to attention… if you’re interested in the development of WordPress MultiUser and would like to put in your requests for site-wide admin functionality then this is the place to do it! Here’s the RSS feed for the WPMU forum too… it’s excellent stuff and I’d encourage pretty much anyone interested in the multi-user …
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Talkr — Letting blogs speak for themselvesGood stuff… great text to speech as well. Hat tip Alex. End of Semester Class Technology Survey | ENGL 421 Technical WritingDrupal vs. WebCT (thanks Harold). Different tools & different uses so a direct comparison is a bit hard bu there are some v. interesting thoughts to be drawn …
Over at blogsavvy I’m trying to condense and open up the Blogs @ Anywhere article I posted a bit back. Basically it’s a summary of ways NOT to use blogs in education, please pop over and share any thought you might have!