My donation went to Oxfam Australia, but these are just as worthwhile and here’s to WordMonger making the full $100. UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) United Nations’ World Food Programme Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (donate!) CARE International The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies UK/Europe: Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) …
Author Archives: James
Skyrocketing prices, bugs, and ease-of-use problems
This article from Campus Technology (via XplanaRadio) introduces itself rather well: “Six years have passed since course management system vendors began selling products to universities. Today’s customers often feel shoved into a corner by their expensive CMS investment because the system is too costly, unstable, inflexible, and too clumsy for most faculty to learn and …
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IM Reality
A. How many K12 schools ban IM? B. How many University / Higher Ed Institution firewalls block it? C. How many on-campus labs, cafes are fitted with ICQ, MSN & Yahoo on the desktop? I’m just guessing here but I’d wager this is the story for the vast vast majority of organisations is: A. Lots …
NOT the WebCT & Blackboard blog
Well, it would seem fairly clear that despite my best efforts at persuasion ;o), BB and WebCT just don’t wanna go ‘a blogging so welcome to an incorporated subversion sub topic “Not the Blackboard & WebCT Blog”! For some reason the pubsubs I set up for our two favourite LMSs haven’t seemed to work (which …
Best of Blogs Education Category
Well it’s an improvement, the Best of Blogs site has an education category. Looks like it’s mostly K12 and home-schooling (well, there’s a blogosphere I didn’t know about!) but great to see Hipteacher & Pedablogue getting some recog there… they’ve also got much nicer badges than the eddies… roll on 2005, we’ll kick their… [More …
1500 items…
Phew, back on the case and just the 1500 or so Bloglines items to get through this morning… thanks to everyone who commented on the festive post, looks like I really needed the break, couldn’t even spell “Christmas” ;o)
Have a peaceful, loving Cristmas and a joyful new year!
Well, that’s pretty much it from me this year, I’m off until the 4th Jan and am also sworn off weblogs, wikis, CMSs, email, IM, SMS, podcasting, pedagogy, technology, community, digital imaging, multimedia, MySQL databases, PHP, hosting, support, laptops, desktops and any ideas / thoughts / projects / conferences / papers related to any of …
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Vogcasting
Adrian Miles explores getting enclosures for vogcasts with MT. Call me a cynic, but isn’t the beauty of podcasts that they are audio which we’re accustomed and happy with floating through our ears as we do other things… doesn’t vogging sit more comfortably on our desktops & sofas?
Rhizomes
Rhizomes looks like an interesting ‘Journal’: “Rhizomes promotes experimental work located outside current disciplines, work that has no proper location. As our name suggests, works written in the spirit of Deleuzian approaches are welcomed but not required. We are not interested in publishing texts that establish their authority merely by affirming what is already believed. …
Inderscience
Actually, subscribing to the RSS feed for all publications through Inderscience has yielded up a ton of really interesting materials, on a regular basis. Highly recommended!