An ancient edublog
Funny. So if you were born, say, sometime in the early to mid 70s in the UK you probably remember Rainbow, right? I reckon some of this clip (’bout 2MB) has been dubbed, has to be, but it takes me back! Via my Dad who probably remembers sitting through it with me :o) [Advisory: Enormous …
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Just some quick stuff, via NevOn here’s how you can optimise your Firefox experience simply with Firetune… annoying download page but seems to be working well! Rob at sexy new-look Stigmergic points to an article on the effect of texting and literacy and pulls out a good quote: “In Europe, where teens have been texting …
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Absolutely top drawer list of business blog texts and links from Lee. Furl this!
Harold is looking at open source Portals and posts some useful links, ‘specially like this translation from Wybo: “Acquisition costs for open source are about half the costs of the cheapest proprietary solution, even when taking into account any system migration costs” Now… I could go on about the utterly useless portal implementation in certain …
Michael posts a coupla interesting thoughts on the Scoble & Tony Chang discussion about whether Google’s 20% of time to explore areas of interest (which Tony likes & thinks works for various reasons) that are of benefit to Google and the MS alternative favoured by Scoble – ‘work on what you actually want to work …
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Was asked by email what I thought of Moodle, this is my very very quick answer from a ‘kinda’ user perspective, am I off the mark? Pros: -Open source thus hacks & hackable / add ons / community / good vibes etc. -Good standards stuff (like RSS for example) -Incorporates email! -Very ‘comfortable’ graphically… also …
Via Matt, here’s a fully fledged audio interview with an ex-spammer who compliments WordPress 5 minutes in! Alan, I’m starting to think that the answer to your problems might lie on the other side of the fence…
The Pedagogy and Practice Group is a Melbourne based teaching and learning forum… from our about page: “The Pedagogy & Practice group was founded in 2004 as a forum for sharing and discussing contemporary education design issues, developing pedagogies and experiences in teaching and learning. Attended by education designers, teaching academics and researchers, the group …
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A bunch of my most recent subscriptions (see currently reading down the right) have been to ‘communications’ blogs (PR, business communications, advertising & stuff like that…) and I be telling you there’s some great stuff there: NevOn who is obviously far more popular than me posts a link to People where you can find out …
Wow, via Stephen this is a great article on implementing blogs in a tertiary learning environment: A Learning Blogosphere (Part 1) (Part 2). Just a few thoughts first up… it’s a real shame that they didn’t use Bloglines as I’d’ve liked to know how that went. Instead though they used a kinda Drupal-esque group aggregator …