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Someone (can’t remember who) was asking me the other day about closed-off journaling tools (limited audiences / student-teacher) … naturally I wasn’t too receptive to the idea and muttered something about ‘point’ and ‘might as well use Word’ but there are some good solutions out there too. Elgg is an obvious one with it’s access …
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“Internationally acclaimed children’s author, Trevor Romain will be facilitating writing workshops in Wellington on the Sunday March 19; after his speaking engagements at the upcoming Blog Hui (March 17-18) weblog conference. Workshop programme: 9-12, How to write memoirs 1-4, Writing, publishing, and marketing books for children $49 per half day session, $90 for a full …
One of the nicest conferences I’ve recently been to was ODLAA 2005 but not so much for the presentations as the ridiculous number of fascinating people there who not only had interesting things to say, but were all up for saying them until the very early hours. One of them, Terry Anderson, was also good …
Check it out, the incsub stable is now part of the most excellent 2web group: 2web is a group of Australian bloggers and entrepreneurs who are passionate about web 2.0. What we all have in common is that through our businesses and blogging we develop, implement and evangelise web 2.0 ideas around web services, open …
Virtual Canuck » Educational Social Software and the Hidden Curriculum"The advent of educational social software gives me opportunity to revisit the term and relate below the ways in which these educational social software technologies both reduce and add new instantiations of the “hidden curriculum” mikes web log | Subtractive bilingualism"some second language learners in Aston …
Most excellently Blog Hui is just over a week away :) Am looking forward to a fascinating get together with an amazing set of people and, apparently, I’m green to go for ‘facilitating’ a BlogWalk which should be fun given that I haven’t been to Wellington before! Here’s the abstract of the paper I’m presenting, …
Am having trouble commenting on Stephen’s news… here’s what I wrote: “Bloody hell, that’s screwed up… am just guessing here but my estimation of the NRC just disappeared. For the record, loud and clear, in not appreciating he work that you do, whoever / whatever organisation is responsible is firstly kicking themselves in the teeth …
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Congrats to winners of the eSchoolNews Blog Awards (.pdf????). Check ’em out: Applied Science Research, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, Eduwonk and AssortedStuff. Me, I’m all for bringing these together with the edublog awards, one question though: What’s with the ‘judging panels’? By all means construct a shortlist… but panels… hmmmm, isn’t this the …
Normally I wouldn’t bother with stuff like this… usually when somebody goes out of their way purely to be antagonistic the best thing to do is to leave them alone. But heck, I’m in a bad mood today (don’t ask!) and given that: all these self-congratulatory, mutual back-slapping blogs, apart … [make] me want to …