Hmmm… somebody’s working Blogger rather nicely with this nasty online education spamblog (rel=”nofollow” used). What do you reckon we should do with this kind of thing? I guess there’s equal potential with WPMU, any ideas?
Yearly Archives: 2005
Qantas – Wireless – Rubbish
Y’know, a kind soul slipped me a complimentary ‘Qantas club’ pass the other day and so in I rolled (a picture of scruff in a sea of suits), grabbed my tea and sat down in a leather couch with a view & whipped out my laptop. And there certainly was wireless there… Telstra $givemeyourcreditcard wireless… …
Workplace Reform in Australia
Marg is worried about workplace reform in Australian higher education… as am I. We have a good enterprise bargaining system in place and while it could always be improved, introducing Australian Workplace Agreements is not the way to go. Unfortunately there’s very little we can do with the Howard (conservative) gov taking shortly control of …
Even better news
As I wrote the last post it popped into my mind that I wished I could write about some more good news. Which now I can :o) Get well soon Anne, great to know you’re OK.
Good news
Donncha O Caoimh, the legend behind WPMU, has some good news!
Postfix email server config consulting
If anyone wants fancies their hand at some postfix email server config consulting (just a tad beyond my technical capacities :o) then get in touch with Matt.
Setting up blogs at your university or school
Here’s a bite-sized version of the multi-user blogging post I wrote a bit back… a quick overview of some of the best tools for implementing blogs in education.
A plan for edublogs.org
I’ve never been the best at crafting lengthy plans for things so here, very quickly, is a plan for how we can use edublogs.org for the maximum benefit for the least stress. All of the voting, rating and scaling stuff went into two particular baskets at around the same time. Namely the ‘too hard’ and …
The differences between weblogs and discussion forums
Via Oliver: “In several occasions we had no convincing argument why discussion via weblogs are different from news groups.” [Peter on eEducation] I *know* that the first thing people think of is how they can use these like discussion forums but pleeeeeeeeease let’s not perpetuate that. I can’t think of any convincing argument…. they’re as …
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Planned Communities
I think I flatter myself to think that Alan has spent the hours required to trawl through Centred Communication but if he has I reckon we’re on the same page. A most excellent addition to the emerging physical-virtual environments discussion in considering the pretty awful Apple digital campus exchange and, dare I say it, another …