An ancient edublog
I can’t help it, sometimes it all just gets too much. I’ve managed to be exceptionally polite of late, I’ve even avoided whining on about the pointless and inevitable failure of new ‘education is content’ providers like LessonBrites (online instructional video marketplace… puhlease), WiZiQ (find the best teachers… why?) or Tutororm (be honest, it’s tech …
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Ladies and gents, for your blog communiuty pleasure, I give you Incsub, custom WordPress MultiUser blog communities and networks. This is a joint project between Andrew Billits and myself and is, I guess, the natural addition to WPMUDEV Premium. Now you don’t even have to worry about implementing our custom plugins and functionality, ‘cos you …
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The fourteenth edition of The Knowldge Tree is out today: the focus is on the organisational applications of Web 2.0 technologies, in terms of connecting intelligence for organisational transformation and the clever use of open source tools to promote organisational learning. Some great articles involved, including one looking at using a wiki as an article …
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Yay, finally I got tagged, twice, with an opportunity to write about myself… huzzah, prepare to be underwhelmed! 1. The only subject I failed at school, was Computer Studies (I got a D) – oh it hurts so 2. As of yesterday, Edublogs HQ is in a mudbrick at the bottom of the garden (see …
Ace article by Sue Waters over at Mobile Technology in TAFE. If you have been struggling to decide which site you should use to host your blog I recommend you check out Edublogs. Edublogs has always been good, but since it turned 2 years old it became great! :) Seriously though Sue gives a great …
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Delighted as I am at having ‘most popular blogs of the hour’ on the the front page of edublogs, imagine my extreme consternation when this little beauty appeared at number 1 :) Oh, and in related news… guess what just arrived in the post… today has not been without it’s entertaining moments ;) Apologies for …
Scott’s completed his top education blogs research…. and here it is. It’s an interesting read, and of course there are many ways to skin a cat, my only complaint is that this noble tome (technorati details here) didn’t make it in, ranking at 2575 would put this ol’ blog at 4th. Update: Well, OK, we’re …
Am very much looking forward to returning to my roots somewhat on the 18th August at Monash, Melbourne for “The First CALL” Symposium, where I’ll be keynoting. That’s Computer Assisted Language Learning… btw. It’s shaping up as a rather excellent Saturday afternoon and if you can make it along, it’d be great to see you …
Update: You can catch me talking about this and more at The Virtual Staffroom with the excellent Chris Betcher. Very big day today as not only is it the second birthday of edublogs, but to mark the occasion we’ve gone and turned 2.0. Heck, you’d better believer it… we’ve got most popular blogs of the …
The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier is now an edublog :) Sent out via email lists since 1993, we’re dead chuffed to have TRTOLS on edublogs and you can read more about Louis here. “Every student should have a person who want to help him or her help him – or herself become the person …