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Yearly Archives: 2006
eSchoolNews Awards
Congrats to winners of the eSchoolNews Blog Awards (.pdf????). Check ’em out: Applied Science Research, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, Eduwonk and AssortedStuff. Me, I’m all for bringing these together with the edublog awards, one question though: What’s with the ‘judging panels’? By all means construct a shortlist… but panels… hmmmm, isn’t this the …
Measure this
Normally I wouldn’t bother with stuff like this… usually when somebody goes out of their way purely to be antagonistic the best thing to do is to leave them alone. But heck, I’m in a bad mood today (don’t ask!) and given that: all these self-congratulatory, mutual back-slapping blogs, apart … [make] me want to …
subverted links
The Antipodean Podcast Blog: Paid content to gain paceThe antipodean doesn’t comment much but if you want a great insight into tech in Aus then this is your feed: "A company CEO who believes in the power of technology convergence as a key driver of innovation. In my spare time I am a technology nut." …
5,000
5,000 edublogs.org blogs… :)
The Blackboard Beyond Initiative
I can almost see the finger quotes :) We have worked year after year with our clients to create powerful networked learning environments for instructors and learners at individual sites. Now, with the Blackboard Beyond Initiative, we are taking a critical next step by fostering a “network” of “networked learning environments”… But this has to …
subverted links
Comments at last | Blog | ChalkfaceAbout time :P The chalkface blog now has comments, go there and leave one! Now to get George & Will to sort stuff out…
Time to start running ads :)
Not really, but the power of this medium is just nuts… for example a 10 word post about the Arctic Monkeys is currently turning up 7th on a google search for one of the hottest bands in the world today. Algorithms anyone???
Learnerblogs might need a new home…
Am currently investigating whether we’ve been the victim of some serious DoS attacks over the last few days or if said ‘attacks’ have actually been enormous computer labs full of students signing up to, logging in to and uploading pictures to learnerblogs all at the same time. I suspect it could be the latter! With …
Group blogs
Yay! Someone agrees with me :) “Group blogs, however tempting, are a bad idea and do not work!” Group blogs are very tempting to language teachers: I’m one of them. So far, however, I’ve got to agree with James: they don’t work. Something is stopping students from participating. Those few who do seem to be …