An ancient edublog
Apologies for the cross posting but the latest blogsavvy post might appeal to is readers as well, it’s a recipe for implementing blogs in your organisation or institution and follows on from quite a bit of my earlier stuff in the area… enjoy: “When you’re implementing or planning on implementing blogs in your organisation or …
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I was in a foul mood the other day when I posted the open source robbery article and totally accept the view that it was, to put it mildly, pretty hostile and not particularly constructive… will try to be moreso this time and explain a bit of my gut reaction. I think that what Michael …
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I wish people would stop knocking WPMU for ‘security flaws’ which don’t exist and ‘bugs’ which also, increasingly so, don’t exist. As it happens it’s purring along nicely and as a result incsub blogs has now been upgraded too! Oh, and check this out… you can now, very very simply, pop a little bit ‘o …
Great to see some of the Melbourne bloggers engaging with the huge potential of opml, rss and all in education, in particular Cam quotes Michael: “First day in the class students are provided an OPML file that provides the details for the lecturers for the semester, they will blog and provide course notes, presentations, thoughts …
This is a good un, I especially like the accompanying quote “James is on it tho’ best support service I’ve had all week, and I can tell you I’ve been attempting to use several crap ones, Dell, Silicon Image etc..”. Perhaps I’m wasted in this blog consultancy game ;o> More and larger image.
BLOGSAVVY » Two models for online education communities – the room and the peopleHere are two models for blog-based online community building in education… would be interested in what IS readers think! My Blog-Ha MomentOh, OK, am going to join in because mine is very simple. It was in 2000 I think when a colleague …
Well, if you’re into this sort of thing then this will come as probably no surprise but at considerable interest nonetheless. Looks like WebCT ‘PowerLinks’ (got I hate their naming!) allow for: “Open the WebCT system to deliver end-user access to: -Custom in-house applications –Open source extensions -Other third-party applications” [my emphasis] In particular, “PhpWiki …
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As we were making breakfast this morning my 5 year old step-daughter, Ibby, sat down and did some thoughtful drawing (as both our girls do a lot… straight from the head). About 10 minutes later she showed us what she’d done and… I think we might be spending a bit too much time on the …
Plone for Manila…Oliver describes how Peter B is going to introduce Plone instead of Manila in his dept. Probably a good move on the CMS front but on the blogs front, Plone???? Whatabout the other options, WPMU, Drupal, pLog etc. etc. Isn’t this a bit one-sizey? ePortfolios a-go-goEverything you could possibly want to fuel a …
Long time readers may or may not have noticed that every now and then I get seriously in a fix about email subscription services… moaning about the fact that bloglet seems to be manager-less, notifylist is a pain and I can’t seem to figure out a way to get an easy email subscription service going. …
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