An ancient edublog
Every now and then we get a support request for a ‘CommentPress Plugin’ and we kindly remind them that it’s not a plugin, but a theme, and that it’s already available on edublogs (and all the student sites). As Alan comments, it’s a ‘slick, elegant, and powerful way to put papers online’ – however, it’s …
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Fray, the pioneering storytelling site, is back and back with aplomb is a rather beautiful web / quarterly hybrid. This edition is called Busted and is, as ever, beautifully illustrated. You can subscribe to the print version for as little as $15 a year. Me, I’m getting the T-Shirt… literally :) Great example of where …
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Well, that was significantly more work than in 2004!!! Voting is now on for the 2007 edublog awards. You can check out the full list of brilliant nominees here.
Heh, quite right: On the face of it, this seems to prove that half-cocked punditry trumps personal storytelling and helpful essays, at least where traffic magnetism is concerned. Now, what was I saying about the web being no different to anything else, really ;)
On the day that *hopefully* we unsubscribe from the suckhole who took Australia into this nonsense, why not unsubscribe from the ongoing abuse.
Today I have mostly been editing 80+ WordPress themes to include tags in them. It’s been a riot ;)
Stephen quotes Michael’s summary of the D2L rubrics, specifically: “Every competency has at least one learning objective under it. In turn, every learning objective has at least one assessment which is the actual instrument for checking to see if students have met the learning objective.” And asks: “But can the objectives of learning be reduced …
Well, I gotta say that I was pretty pleased with how WordCamp Melbourne 2007 turned out. Sure, it was a little warm, and not quite dark enough to see the slides well and there were a few flies (strewth mate, we were downunder!) but I reckon that the turnout was just right, the speakers excellent, …
Update: OMG there we go !!! Now… the question is whether I satisfy the notability guidelines… yoikes… apparently that means: “If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject” So, …
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Movable Type 4 is out and going for the “social media sites” angle. Having worked extensively with version 3 at The Age it’s very different to WPMU in a whole heap of ways… and I reckon it’s time for someone with less – ahem – bias than me to do a decent side-by-side (possibly chucking …