An ancient edublog
After a few discussions of the future of edublogs.org and forgetting financial viability etc. for the minute I figured that the best thing I could do at this point is to consider where I’d like it to go in the next 3, 6 and 12 months and that the best place to do that would …
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It certainly is connection season down here as Fang aka LearnDog (who started this whole thing by swingin’ over from Adelaide) says. Had a cracking time on Tuesday talking with ‘im and Cam which then extended to an excellent dinner also organised by Cam in St Kilda where met some very interesting people, especially Phil …
Basically I work day to day in a large concrete box. On a corridor with a view of some leaves obscuring a 6 lane road, in the suburbs… it’s thrilling. But something really cool is happening down under the box in the carpark (another benefit of smoking is that you get to notice these things). …
This would be a job posting if we had any money… but we don’t, so it’s a partnership proposal instead. Basically I’m running a couple of projects that involve mediawiki, and me & the other partner in this need an enthusiastic mediawiki hacker (or someone with good php / MySQL expertise) with a bit of …
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Well in an official-esque announcement sense I now pronounce learnerblogs.org and uniblogs.org open for business. Basically these are sites in a similar vein to edublogs.org in that they are seeking to provide free blogs, but this time for K12 school students and university / college students. learnerblogs.org is basically born of demand. Soooo many teachers …
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CJ’s posts on the importance of being a pain in the ass… a bit like I’ve been ‘advocating’ at Blogsavvy (and no, that does not make me Lighips ;) Anyway, you should go and read the whole thing.. here’s a taster: “Intellectually I am drawn to the loopy, the “enfant terribles” of the academic world. …
Had a great chat over lunch today with Cameron Reilly of The Podcast Network fame and Mike SeyFang of the excellent Learndog. Two great ex-MSers with cracking ideas about learning, podcasts, production, where we’re going and a frickin’ HEAP of experience about where we’ve been. Thoroughly enjoyed it, especially the obligatory ‘ah you’re being very …
Well, you know how sometimes you get into a situation where you’re saying “Yes, there should be an edublogs-esque place for students” and “Yes, there should be a dedicated K12 environment for that too” and “Well, yes, I know how to do that”. Well, that’d be a fair summary of my experience in edtechtalk at …
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This is interesting, Akismet (short for Automattic Kismet – not that that helps ;) is Matt’s latest venture into the comments spam wars. It’s new in terms of WordPress plugins because it uses the API key that having a wordpress.com blogs gives and, presumably, develops protection intelligently from there. Oh, btw, I’ve got 1 invite …
So these are the things that have been getting my goat of late. 1. I reckon this has got to be someone pretending to be googlebot for some nasty reason or another… the net result is that I’ve had to use robots.txt to keep googlebot out – which is not something that I want to …
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