New post up, on The Edublogs Magazine, responding to Judy’s utterly OTT criticism.

I second all of D’Arcy’s requests.

Plus, can I have passwod save on Safari please, especially for free wifi spots I need to log into (i.e. the library).

Not only do we now have the brilliant Sue Waters writing The Edublogger, but we also have the Queen of WordPress (TM ;) , Lorelle VanFossen editing The Edublogs Magazine.

More information of both publications here.

I’m pretty chuffed to say the least :)

So…. am thinking in 2008 that I should mix things up a bit, and get to work in some more social environments… in other words move out of the shed for a few days a week and see if I can find a decent office sharing space in or around the North / North East of Melbourne.

So far the most promising possibility I can find so far is The OpenHub… although am somewhat peterbed by their lack of any, um, address and also some pretty stringent bandwidth limits… although it looks like a nice central place. However, while it’d be nice to be in the city I wouldn’t mind somewhere I can easily drive and park at… so maybe Fitzroy, Collingwood or Northcote?

Have been having a look at a gumtree search too but nothing really stands out.

Anyone know anywhere good as a shared working space I could take a look at? Recommendations would be great!

(small drumroll)

Ladies and gents, we give you Edublogs Campus.

It’s the next generation of ‘Edublogs Premium’ (which always was a bit of a silly name) and is much more than a bit of rebranding.

Now with every installation you can batch create users and blogs, manage plugins and privacy to the nth degree and even monitor every post and comment on your site for ‘bad’ (or good!) words.

And of course it’s got everything that you find in the regular Edublogs, except in a box, all for you, with a bow on :)

Heck, in case you weren’t sure why you needed it, well, we’ve even put together a list of 10 straightforward ways you can use Campus in your school, uni or organization.

And what’s more, it’s pretty competitive too… our ‘Unlimited’ license comes in at less than a decent managed server for a year, which is what you’d have to buy before you even considered the software.

So, get in touch with us and we’ll see what we can do for you, mention this post and we might even be able to cut you a deal!

Sitting outside my office right now, quietly hooting.

 

 

He’s a Tawny Frogmouth. Not an owl, but a night jar (I think) and I’m sure his mate is nearby too.

New stuff at Edublogs today, a brand new (and official!) blog… The Edublogger, by the most excellent Sue Waters (of Mobile Tech in TAFE fame).

Sue’s going to be providing something that I reckon we’ve been needing for a long time,  a regularly updated hints, tips, idea, feedback-orientated blog about edublogs and other online educational software (with an edublogs slant).

Sue’s starting off by asking what interests you? So why don’t you scoot on over there and tell her :)

Some pics from my Melbourne WSG presentation last month.

Voting closes tomorrow, so if you haven’t yet, and want to do the nicest thing ever, then spare a few seconds and vote for Tessa Farmer here.

… vote for Tessa Farmer in The Times/The South Bank Show Breakthrough Award!

You can vote here… you do have to be a registered timesonline user but I promise that the registration isn’t too time consuming :)

And naturally, you shouldn’t just vote for her cos she’s my sister, she also happens to be the most talented of the bunch:

“Farmer creates a reflection in miniature of our society. She shows us its fragility and its ferocity, its poetry and its repulsion, its beauty and its brutality. Damien Hirst did something like this with his dead animals. But if Hirst is Francis Bacon in 3-D then Farmer is probably Albrecht Dürer. ” [from the article]

And you have my solemn oath this is the one favour I’ll ask of you for the next 12 months so go support Tess!