Josie has been kind enough to take over the edublog awards this year and has gone into overdrive with the nominations, these are the categories: * Most innovative edublogging project, service or programme * Best newcomer * Most influential post, resource or presentation * Best designed/most beautiful edublog * Best library/librarian blog * Best teacher …
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Into our third millenium!
Am flat out today so please forgive me if I don’t get back to emails but heck, I had to take a moment to note that overnight (my time) edublogs.org passed the 2000 blogs mark. w00t etc. :)
Developing Online Communities the Centred Way
All communities start with individuals. The individual is the core constituent and what everything revolves around (this is kinda what I tried to say in centred communication). However, we frequently ignore this and IMO the number one problem that we have in designing and developing online communities is that we tend to try to develop …
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Learning the hosting ropes!
Well, I’ve had a fun weekend, um, not. What with the growth of edublogs.org and the funny bandwidth deals going on here I figured I had to do something about it and after a bit of research came upon Surpass hosting. Four days later of trying trying trying to get some simple accounts transferred, bugger …
Gonzo Academia
“In Gonzo Academia there is no room for format. No space for formula. No writing to any guidelines. You basically have to consume whatever information you need as fast as you can before stuffing yourself into a pressure cooker and hoping some form of genius to percolate onto the page.” [The adventures of the 14 …
How is blogging going to influence my academic career?
It’s a good question, and one I find myself asking a fair bit these days… and in that vein via Brian this article is well worth a read. It goes over the old ground of non-seriousness, subversive tendencies and that awful article from the chronicle about how bloggers need not apply and then says: But …
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Bandwidth solution & Things you should NEVER do in Elluminate Live!
Well, the solution to bandwidth problems is fairly simple… I’m moving to a host that’ll give me a lot more! Bear with me though, especially if you’re an edu, uni or learner blogs user… to compensate all you guys I’ll be adding 50% more storage to your file upload space! And you’re not going to …
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The gravatar is dead, long live the gravatar!
Well that was a short lived experiment. The research, ahem, would suggest that unless you’re a certified geek you generally don’t seem to have a gravatar and the odds are that you’re not going to bother either. I kinda suspected this would be the case, reckon that it’s tied into the whole digital identity stuff, …
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The adventures of the 14 day Thesis
Someone who is obviously completely off their rocker but doing it in a damn stylish manner has set up a blog at uniblogs.org entitled: “The adventures of the 14 day Thesis”. The premise being that they’re going to write a thesis in, um, 14 days. Well, it’s almost time but to be frank I don’t …
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The Ten Evilest and Mostly Unethical Blogging Hacks ยป Jack of All BlogsQuality! Stephen Powell: Personal Learning Environments (PLE)This is interesting… sounds a lot like Elgg! Wirearchy :: As Blogging Matures (A Bit) …" I believe that blogging is a large and substantial social phenomenon, in which people do online, in an interconnected environment of …