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Yearly Archives: 2006
WebCT Attempts to Outdo BlackBoard on Blogging System!
This just in :) Today Mark Hallam from WebCT spoke at the Annual Teaching & Learning Forum held at the University of Western Australia. Mark previewed a number of WebCT’s next steps including ePortfolio tools and blogs. However, on close questioning, Mark admitted that WebCT’s blogs aren’t really blogs at all because… 1. They are …
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subverted links
Blogonomics Blog Cruise 2006Well this tops them all I reckon. Do you reckon they’ll accept peer reviewed papers? Wonder what the wireless is like out at sea? State Of The EvilSuperb :)
30 Days has December, April, June & November….
1st of February. Hurrah. Bandwidth issues quelled for another 20 odd days (Feb is good too, nice and short :) Incidentally it seems that the best way to deal with the Googlebot battle I’ve been having was to contact Google (duh) who have been pretty responsive and nice saying they’re going to reduce the load… …
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Supporting edublogs.org
It’s pretty much at the end of each month… when the bandwidth limits are drawing near… that the only downside of running edublogs.org kicks in. Essentially we’re going to need a dedicated server very very soon as in the first place we’re running out of bandwidth / space and in the second I figure we’ll …
Host your own or hold a third party?
Leigh responds to Stephen’s audio thoughts on spam and ‘control’ of content, saying that: Stephen suggests that using free web based services leaves you open to spam and other sorded attacks on content, but I think hosting and managing your own software leaves you open. Because: Basically what I’m saying is that schools and other …
But then again…
It works for some things ;)
Why don’t I care about Flickr?
Why don’t I care about Flickr? Because Flickr don’t care about me? Why is it that I’d rather Sample my pics through a feed? Perhaps I’m just not that visual Perhaps I’m not social enough Perhaps it’s the same as with podcasts I just don’t give much of a stuff! I like some good ol …
The joys of the Blackboard ‘blog journal’
A colleague at an Australian University showed me some details about where they’re going with Blackboard and blogs and oh dearie dearie me… it’s not a pretty place! Specifically their “blog journal… [&] e-portfolio for teaching in the Autumn semester” is somewhat limited by the fact that: “each blog will be subject bound (and it …
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On a serious roll!
Update: I forgot to mention that Andy Tsintas (also known as Andrew Tsintas, MFT etc.) deserves to be recognised for much much more than simply cleaning a river as a cub scout. I mean, the man is a legend of the street, an urban warrior and a mean motherf***er to boot! Well last week was …