Interesting articles (lost the referrer, sorry) today, A Student View of CMS by Ryan Tansey. As it happens yesterday I was on the ground participating in a research study regarding our CMS. I interviewed 30 students (90% undergrad and all on campus) and the overwhelming response I got was not dissimilar to the views expressed …
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mBlog Nightmare
From Anol at Soulsoup (which is now a 404!): “mBlog, the free MT based blog hosting service where my SoulSoup was hosted discontinued their service without any notice! I don’t have any backup of my last 8 months of blogposts (more than 450 posts). There is no way I can contact them – I mailed …
Toungue in cheek ;o) – Academic rage perhaps?
Some graffiti spotted the other day in Sydney:
Webnote
This is pretty cool, post it notes on the web, with feeds! Have a looksee at mine, hmmmm possibilities.
Innovate Articles
Thought I’d just do a quick run through of some of the innovate (title graphic small ‘i’, text big ‘I’ – I know about those problems ;o) articles I found of interest, now much as I was singing it’s praises yesterday having a good look at it (past the registration which Stephen rightly gets annoyed …
A New Australian National Anthem
After the depressing events of Saturday (via email) we have a new anonymously penned version of the national anthem (here’s the tune if you’d like to hum along): Australians all let us rejoice, For we have tasted greed; Our interest rates mean more to us, Than mere humanity; Our land abounds with credit cards And …
PowerPoint broadcasts… actually seem to work
Am playing around with non-synchronous audio visual presentation tools at the moment. To my great surprise the PowerPoint (2002) broadcast tool isn’t that bad (IE only, ahem) & I like the way you can easily do a webcam with it. In an ideal world I’d be able to use Breeze for PowerPoints but ho hum… …
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Goodbye Radio
So, goodbye beloved Radio so simple and effective a launching pad into this blogging world and yet so disturbing and aggravating a long term partner. I will most certainly miss your cosy text editor, your simplest of category postings and your solid desktop feeling. However, I don’t mean to be harsh, but your horrible habit …
Innovate
What more can I say, it’s from Technology Source (which should probably consider sorting out it’s archives) Man, James L. Morrison, has an RSS feed and has taken a departure from the flashy graphics to a world of blog (in may ways!). It’s the innovate journal of online education and I like it :o)
The WHAT of Blogging
Good post at Blogsperiment entitled ‘The WHAT of Blogging’. Looks whether blogs need a clear purpose, especially in course blogging… which is a pretty important question if you ask me. Includes a very good overview of several teachers thoughts and findings when it comes to the practicalities of getting your learners blogging. Blogsperiment is a …