Author Archives: James

via Brian:

Enormous congratulations to Will who has taken the plunge, put his money where his mouth is, leapt from the parapet and done what I think many of us would like to do. What’s that I hear you say, “Oi!” perhaps :) Seriously though… a significant day for edublogging and one which bodes well all over.

The other day I set up sitewide feeds for edublogs.org [feed], learnerblogs.org [feed] and uniblogs.org [feed] partly out of interest, partly as a splog-swatting measure and partly so I could use feed2js to produce a page like this. But to be honest, c.15 hours later checking out the edublogs.org feed and finding 176 posts… a …

Continue reading “Quite emotional really…”

MHetherington.net » Blog Archive » How to set up a student centered classroom blog.Excellent intro to classroom blogging from someone who knows! Great to see learnerblogs being useful.

I’m usually terrible with dates / anniversaries and so figure that it’s probably best to do two at once… one that I’ve already missed and one that I’ll probably miss too. First up I missed that just over a year ago (on January 18th 05 to be precise) I installed my first working version of …

Continue reading “A lot can happen in a year (or three)”

Sakai vs. MoodleI am totally under the gun at the mo in terms of work so this gets less attention than it deserves… as does the questions of whether we should be even be comparing these two systems… but that’s another post ;)

Anyone who grew up in the UK (never mind Australia) would be familiar with the show Neighbours and the laid back, friendly suburban life that it portrays, here in good old Melbourne. Funny that, however, when I went to talk to one of our neighbours for the first time today (well the second, he’d told …

Continue reading “Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours…”

Oz eTeachers' Wikiway to the World of e-LearningWelcome to the world of Oz E Teacher by wiki – lotsa good stuff here.

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 …

Continue reading “WebCT Attempts to Outdo BlackBoard on Blogging System!”

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 :)