Author Archives: James

I’m running a workshop this morning on using weblogs in education, here are the slides that form the backbone (with accompanying audio!).

Now these are really really really good. Larger version and more… Dontcha reckon this one is the best one so far? I can see web-design written all over this…

If you’re not subscribed to the Blogtalk Downunder RSS feed you’re missing out on a heck of a lot of good papers, ideas, discussion (and some podcasts to come!) I’m posting too much stuff there to repeat it all here so I’d encourage you to slip over and sign up! Blogtalk Downunder RSS Feed

You’ll be interested in today’s Blogtalk paper… emphasis by me! Gavin Sade: Weblogs as Open Constructive Learning Environments Abstract This paper presents the authors experience using weblogs in a final year Communication Design class entitled Contemporary Issues in Design and Technology, at the Queensland University of Technology in the Faculty of Creative Industries. Students in …

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This post deserves far more consideration than I’m about to put into it… but what the heck, as will become clear that’s kinda the point :o) Reading Hugh this morning quoting himself saying “The fact is, ad agencies hate blogs. They utterly despise them, even if they tell you otherwise. They hate them because if …

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More & larger image for your pleasure…. Lindon: “as my mum might say..”that’s a nice blue colour dear…”

I was pretty chuffed when Derek Powazek actually posted a comment on my whinge about him not providing full RSS feeds… so chuffed, in fact that I’ll reprint it here: “I prefer to only include excerpts in RSS, because I don’t want my content to appear elsewhere in totality. If someone wants to excerpt it …

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Yesterday I was lucky enough to meet with Darren Rowse, the man behind problogger, Athens blog and plenty more besides! It was great meeting up & having a real live talk with someone as deep into blogs as Darren (he’s also just round the corner from me!) if he’s able to make it to Blogtalk …

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Excellent stuff. Brian has got funding to go Drupal & MT crazy at UBC… oh the seething jealousy ;) Derek points out the enormous potential of Elgg in a ‘Blogging as VLE’ context… I’m thinking along VERY similar lines, especially with K12 in mind… more on that when I’ve got a bit of time. And …

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Lindon is organically relocating: Larger version and more. Move over Hugh Macleod, beautiful machines coming through :O)