Via Robin comes a very pretty podcasting / vodcasting (vod?) white paper, includes within some suggestions for use including the fairly daft: “Students can record and upload their foreign language lessons to their instructor’s Web site. The instructor can then listen to the lessons on their MP3 player at their convenience.” Maybe I was just …
Yearly Archives: 2005
Radio@UPEI
I’d like to be working at UPEI, they’re doing some interesting things there! “Radio@UPEI is firstly a space to learn about, to post, to promote, and to celebrate rich media online and a multi-faceted service to facilitate its exchange. Our vision is to create a new type of media exchange where anyone can learn about …
Hard communities & blogging
Lindon, who, if anyone, should know a lot about having & not having blogs (is this one the 4th?) gets to a serious nub about blogging and communities [emphasis mine]: “I spent some time on the week end pondering”Blogging”, ‘cause here I am again with the initial wave of posts diminishing to a trickle. Do …
Temporary weblogs
This isn’t a dig at you-know-who but don’t temporary blogs (like conference blogs) get on your nerves? Subscribe, unsubscribe and then it just sits there forever… Am trying to do something a bit different with Blogtalk by a. doing it over a much longer time (i.e. it becomes the conference website) & b. putting all …
Blogging works best…
David Miller at Emerging Perceptions says: “Blogging works best when it is a part of a persons life, meaning that it is a way that they work rather than a course requirement. It works best when it is owned by the individual student rather than being an element of a class they are taking. It …
Getting started with blogging in education
Over at the IncSub community site Michael is thinking about setting up a blogging community: “A few of us in Sydney have been toying with the idea of creating a collaborative resource to help educators integrate the new tools of the web in their classes… and we’re currently considering whether Drupal or some other CMS/Wiki …
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Innovation…
Thomas wraps up his BB experience, one thing that stood out was: “The theme of the conference, this year, was “Innovating Together.” I have to admit that I did not see anything truly innovative. I saw lots of folks with great ideas, lots of ways to implement, support, manage, etc., but nothing earth-shattering, nothing that …
The antipodean podcast
Here’s an interesting new podcast: “discussing emerging and developing issues in the life sciences, technology, and medical science sectors especially those developments which have an Australian flavour but with global impact.” [The Antipodean Podcast] I kind of academia / business / IP blend coming from ATP Innovations. Good stuff :o)
Two quick ways to kill off blogging in education
This has been rumbling away for a while with me so it needs a way out… I’m getting a kinda feeling (a bit like Lindon) that things are about to change with blogging and stuff (at least in higher ed). Things like all of these ‘Weblogs @’ programs, the fact that multi-user weblogging is now …
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Powazek RSS
I’m trying to get rid of all my email subscriptions and as I get Powazek by RSS I figured that could go first… but alas & alak I only get summaries through the Just a Thought RSS feed :o( Don’t know why people do this… full content email and then summaries by RSS? Any chance …