Ewan has been suffering one heck of a Typepad nightmare after accidentally hitting the ‘Delete’ button… Absolute joke… edublogs.org is a free service which (in the first instance) doesn’t make it easy for people to delete their blogs and in the second instance has full server backups daily and technicians who can get me one …
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To the World in General… (NB: If you’re going to Naace read on!)
Peter Ford is not just blogging at the upcoming Naace conference but also providing all attendees with a seriously cool blogging platform (disclaimer – you may note a hint of incsub in this ;) and asking: To the world in general – What sort of stuff should I be covering in a blogging session with …
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Abject Learning: Don't call it a Northern Voice wrap-up. Part one – what workedI so want to go to the next Northern Voice… perhaps we could do a ‘Southern one’. No, avoid enormous amount of work… I just wanna go to this one… Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?Excellent new edublog (but not at …
Arctic Monkeys
“You’re not from New York city you’re from Rotherham” :)
Breaking up with Google
Lol sent me this video and it’s ace…. watch it! Possibly one of the best things it’s done is to make me go out looking for a search engine for about the first time in 5 years!!! And guess what I found… snap.com. The search is probably still not as good but the interface is …
Outstanding edublogs.org posts
Wow… wish someone would pay me to do more of this but I just took a little more time than usual to scan through the edublogs.org feed and there have been some absolutely great posts going on in there… here’s just a sample. Knowledging across life’s curriculum has come up with a couple of absolute …
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myComments | All your conversations in only one feed!Um, just ‘subscribe-to-comments’ plugin would work OK wouldn’t it? I’m much more in favour of blog owners taking responsibility for this. Ross Mayfield's Weblog: AdvisorshipFrom someone who knows… this is a keeper!
Don’t put the computers into schools… put them into homes!
Excellent news that a project my dad has been working on has received an extension: We are now going to put a computer , with connectivity, into the house of all Year 3 children linked to three schools in Aston (210 pupils) and some year 7 (probably 90). It’s a really interesting concept (for me) …
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eportfolios and PLEs and a reverse midas
Q: “Did vendors and institutions kill the initial promise of e-portfolios by trying to turn the concept into a single tool (product) used to measure student achievement?” Some answers. Me – couldn’t agree more – except for one thing… ‘eportfolios’ I don’t like. Perhaps by calling stuff eportfolios (as I have done but I don’t …
Outside the edusphere
One of the best leads I’ve had for a while was a few weeks ago when I got to have lunch with, among others, the guys from Anecdote. Not only because they’re good bangers & mash company ;) but also because their insights into and discussion of effective research methodologies, communities and qualitative perspectives on …