Well, what can I say, a great bunch of people sharing a great bunch of blogs, thanks to all who came along & voted! Basically, congratulations to everyone who was nominated. As I’ve gone on about ad infinitum the idea of how ‘results’ might work has been troubling me a fair bit and I’m really …
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Plone or Drupal or Mambo or…?
Have a colleague who’s interested in using a CMS for a fairly major Uni project, he’s wondering whether Plone, Drupal, Mambo or any other solutions might work best. Personally I had a look at Mambo a few weeks back and it didn’t rock my (admittably community driven) world, you can probably guess that I’m pretty …
ASCILITE 2004 Reflections
Well, that was a thoroughly enjoyable conference I reckon! Not only was there a range of interesting and (has to be said) quality presentations on evaluation, pedagogy, research and alike but there was also a ton of refreshing new stuff. And a paper I co-authored even took out one of the outstanding paper awards… which …
Eduforge
Interesting presentation on Eduforge, offering project spaces for educators and researchers (here’s the short paper: Design for communities of practice: Eduforge). I’m trying to figure out what it’s made with…. siteframe? It’s an interesting concept, providing project spaces…. hmmmmm… I like situating these things next to incsub, worth a think!
Authentic Assessment
Interesting if not particularly hi-volume weblog from Jeremy Williams on authentic assessment: “The Authentic Assessment Web Site: A place to share ideas on the creation of meaningful, engaging, real-world assessment, promoting deep learning” Jeremy just presented a very clear and compelling argument against traditional examinations, good on ya! Here’s the short paper: Creating authentic assessments: …
Thunderbird(s) are go!
Hurrah! Thunderbird 1.0 is here, email & aggregation & everything you could possibly want in one beautiful tool. Get it now!
BlackBoard & IE
Ahhhh, seen at Kairos it looks like bits of Blackboard only work with IE (for now) … now, am I imagining this or isn’t it the case that Microsoft have a significant stake in BlackBoard? Just for the sake of comparison, they’re not the only ones with compatibility issues!
By the way…
… don’t all jump up at once and flood me with suggestions for “The Eddies” icon. [Um, OK, actually it’s looking rather worryingly that I might have to do this myself… I’m not the best graphic designer y’know!]
Edublog Awards – Publish or be damned :o)
Just a quick note to people who have been nominated for the Edublog awards, it certainly seems to be the case that people who alert their readers to their nomination(s) may well get the odd vote or two more than others…. so… I know you may be blushing about being nominated and may not be …
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ASCILITE 2004: SMS & Learning
Am now in a couple of interesting sessions on SMS in learning, cool! Stephen Cheung “Fun and games with mobile phones: SMS messaging in microeconomics experiments“. Stephen uses SMS for voting & playing in learning games…. not cheap but a lot of fun! There’s also an ‘economists’ version of his paper here (.pdf). Louise Horstmanshof …