Two years three days ago: “Having spent so much time thinking about & arguing for the use of blogs in eduction… figured it was about time I got myself one and started playing with the idea a bit more.” [James Farmer’s Radio Weblog]
Author Archives: James
IncSub Blog Plugin – email subscription
[Update: Thanks to Lindon for pointing out that it should be comments.html (not.php or wp-comments), edited and now correct!] Hey, this is even better, WordPress plugins seem to work as well for IncSub Blogs! What I’ve done to start with is to install the Subscribe to Comments plugin first which allows commentators on your blog …
Multi-user weblogging in schools
Tom posts about weblogging / eportfolioing in schools from a “progressive comprehensive school reform” angle and looking towards “a progressive, authentic approach to standards-based assessment”. Good stuff! Personally I reckon that what he asks for, namely as system which allows him to: “* View entries for a given course, e.g., English 11, across different sections …
Adelaide, Education and Life
This is turning into serious link day… checkout Michael Coghlan’s Adelaide, Education and Life including fascinating (despite the Adelaide bit ;o) experiments with incorporating audio into blogs with many different play buttons! Michael is a leading TAFE guy down these parts and recently was a fellow panellist on GLDVIII.
ed-design blog
Hey, checkout fellow Melburnian education designer (that’s me in my day job) Marg which I guess makes another Monash Blogger! “From north-west Western Australia to the madding crowd at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. How does a community educator move into educational design across educational sectors?” [Flexible Learning and Educational Design] Thanks for the link Marg, …
IncSub Blogs now Strayhorn
Yay, IncSub blogs are now Strayhorn… there’s a small difference in the menu tabs between the individual and the wpmu install but the functionality is still the same giving you excellent control over comments and a heap of other stuff. Here are a couple of cracking IncSub bloggers too: In the Bungelow – Lindon Parker …
WPMU themes & Signup Workround
Hmmm, still haven’t quite got the WMPU upgrade working but Donncha has put a bunch of WPMU templates up which I’ve installed so… yourIncSub Blog can now look as pretty as you like! In answer to D’Arcy’s question about how I’ve set up the registeration page, it goes something like this: 1. Once WPMU is …
Sipligs
Heh :D… come on then… I notice you quake at the sight of Lamb! “I wiped bigger pieces of lint off the many carpets I sold at Sears Roebuck. I’m coming for you Downes, Levine, Farmer and Norman. I’m going to be so big there won’t be room in the blogosphere for you. Make way …
Location Coordinates / GPS Details Websites
Have been looking for a while with no luck, does anyone know any websites that act like Microsoft’s map search worldwide but which gives you a GPS reading or longitude / latitude readings for that location (rather than just a map). GeoURL is still working on getting up again so that’s no good for now… …
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WPMU New Snapshot (with Strayhorn!) & WPMU Support Forums
Did I mention how cool it is to get comments from Anil & Matt & a trackback from Donncha on the same post, well it is, alright. Good news as well today that the Strayhorn snapshot of WPMU is out and the WPMU Support forum is now up and running too… quickly populated my my …
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