An ancient edublog
The names are getting more abstract but the images are getting simpler… Lindon has definitely helped me realise the value of and multiple uses of blogs and is and incsub blogger that most certainly motivated me to give this a wider go, good stuff.
“We must address the issue of improving the numbers of white, middle-class students who drop out. The sooner we get the bottom half of the students out of the schools, the sooner we will see the improvements in academic performance in this last, critical time period before the ravening generational horde is released on society…” [Scriblerus Club]
Satirizing since 1713 Funny :D
I know *exactly* how Pete feels… it’s all pervasive, must hide!
“I have been reflecting on why I haven’t considered before whether blogs could be much use in education, except as an occasional off-task thought. After all I have been blogging, on political websites and others for some time.
Shamefully, I find myself coming to the conclusion that I often now down-play the significance of new technologies.
My excuse? Internalisation of institutional negativity….”[Pete Radcliff’s Trying it out .. and why not]
Hey, looks like edublogs has kicked off a bit of an interesting discussion about mult-user blogging (and whether we should call it that).
Just in case anyone’s missed it I should probably make mention of my earlier overview… still fairly up to date.
I reckon I’m probably due a review of that soon… although a treaty on the wonders of WPMU is alse pretty likely!
Now if you were feeling *really* generous you could pop this on your sidebar for a couple of weeks / months :o)
Update: More colours added, please feel free to make your own with this png if you like.
Sweeeeeeeet… that’s over 2 an hour!!! Let’s try to get it up to 4…
Time for me to subscribe to a host of listservs I think… let me know which ones have already been posted to.
OK, promise will only post for milestones now (he says, hoping for milestones to arrive very shortly!)
Well, it’s only taken me the better part of a day but I bring you, ta da… edublogs news.
This is where I’ll be posting almost all the edublogs stuff from now on so if you’re interested then hop on over or just grab yourself a feed.
Keep on spreading the word… 124 and counting… do you reckon we can make a round 1000 in the next two weeks?
Does anyone ever post to slashdot :o)
Great stuff…. big thanks out to people who have been helping spread edublogs… almost at 100, but plenty of work to do yet, how long do you reckon it’ll take to get to 1000? Guesses welcome and will be rewarded by gratuitous linking and much honour :o)
Seriously though there are already some great things going on… random mind looks like a fully formed blog already, Bar Ma Che Gozasht is pumping out the arabic, Martin Terre Blanche and Kevin Durrhei have started a blog to accompany their forthcoming and very interesting Knowledge2go, Pete Radcliff is taking to blogging like a duck to water, KlasCement is collecting “cool links, interesting educational stuff, software you should install”, the EdTech Workshops WebLog is, well, exactly that, how do you MU is exploring WPMU from a users perspective, Yishay Mor is checking out is WordPress is ‘the one’ and exploring research vs. teaching at the same time, can’t comment though as you need to be logged in :( and Hannah of HannahBlog has just ordered a banjo and is typing too much!
Superb, why don’t you pay a visit to some of the worlds newest edubloggers!!!
Am starting to develop a bit an obsessive habit of checking how many new edublog there are… need to calm down!
76 at the moment… so still going about 1 per hour, c’mon, spread the word and let’s try to double that!
Some updates:
-Installed subscribe-to-comments plugin – works beautifully… happy dance!
-A ton of anti-spam plugins are installed by default too so no worries there :o)
-As soon as I can figure out how to nicely include it I’m going to whack an ‘edublogs news’ blog up there for this kind of stuff
(here’s that ‘press release’ again for you to share with the listservs you are on, pretty please!)
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http://edublogs.org – Launched!
http://edublogs.org is an totally unique project aimed at teachers, researchers, writers and educators the world over.
Basically you get to set up a free WordPress blog (by far the best blogging platform out there!), 10MB of upload space (extending to much much more down the line), an enormous stack of beautiful themes and to be part of a unique community.
You could use a blog to record and annotate important resources and ideas, to propose and discuss anything under the sun, to progressively develop your thesis, to publicise and discuss your publications with the world or just to develop your digital identity.
Either way, http://edublogs.org is a no-strings-attached, open source, ongoing and freely available service for you and you’re invited to take part!
If you’ve got any questions, please feel free to contact James Farmer at james[at]edublogs(dot)org
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