An ancient edublog
Well in an official-esque announcement sense I now pronounce learnerblogs.org and uniblogs.org open for business. Basically these are sites in a similar vein to edublogs.org in that they are seeking to provide free blogs, but this time for K12 school students and university / college students. learnerblogs.org is basically born of demand. Soooo many teachers …
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CJ’s posts on the importance of being a pain in the ass… a bit like I’ve been ‘advocating’ at Blogsavvy (and no, that does not make me Lighips ;) Anyway, you should go and read the whole thing.. here’s a taster: “Intellectually I am drawn to the loopy, the “enfant terribles” of the academic world. …
Had a great chat over lunch today with Cameron Reilly of The Podcast Network fame and Mike SeyFang of the excellent Learndog. Two great ex-MSers with cracking ideas about learning, podcasts, production, where we’re going and a frickin’ HEAP of experience about where we’ve been. Thoroughly enjoyed it, especially the obligatory ‘ah you’re being very …
Well, you know how sometimes you get into a situation where you’re saying “Yes, there should be an edublogs-esque place for students” and “Yes, there should be a dedicated K12 environment for that too” and “Well, yes, I know how to do that”. Well, that’d be a fair summary of my experience in edtechtalk at …
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This is interesting, Akismet (short for Automattic Kismet – not that that helps ;) is Matt’s latest venture into the comments spam wars. It’s new in terms of WordPress plugins because it uses the API key that having a wordpress.com blogs gives and, presumably, develops protection intelligently from there. Oh, btw, I’ve got 1 invite …
So these are the things that have been getting my goat of late. 1. I reckon this has got to be someone pretending to be googlebot for some nasty reason or another… the net result is that I’ve had to use robots.txt to keep googlebot out – which is not something that I want to …
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A (fair) while back I think I mentioned that I had put together a little project full of interviews with online teaching and learning fellows at my, ahem, place. Well, that kinda got picked up on (as these things kinda do) and the net result is the niftily titled “Contemporary Online Teaching Cases”. Basically it’s …
Blimey, don’t know if I’m going to make it to the end of this month in terms of bandwidth at incsub.org, Googlebot has absolutely whacked me again with 5.21 Gig of bandwidth used up already!!! Don’t really get what’s going on, had this problem a month ago too and it went away but no idea …
Well… you’ve gotta give these things some thought you know ;) It’s not going to happen for a while but I have extracted an agreement to make the love of my life the love for my life. Here’s to you Lol, here’s to our journey!
Well, time and a distinct feeling of wanting to move on has brought an abrupt halt to my overview of different multi user blogging systems with only Drupal, Movable Type, pLog, Manila, WPMU and ELGG covered… but I reckon that’s enough to be getting along with, and if people wanna add more then they can …
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