Haven’t posted about blogging for a while, so here’s a huge one. Despite a lot of talk about blogging in the classroom by many edublog-type sites, it is clear that the idea of actually assessing blogwork for assignments is still a new and evolving one. I personally haven’t really tried to go beyond looking at the blogs as a form of portfolio or journal to track the progress of a project. Nonetheless, the web is hardly lacking in excellent student-written…
When I first started browsing the web way back in the mid-1990s (has it been 10 years already??), I found myself clicking on the same old bookmarks over and over again every day just to check what’s been updated. Nowadays, thanks to RSS, that’s no longer necessary. In fact, there’re so many uses for RSS, it’s really dizzying! I personally use NetNewsWire to keep track of all my favourite websites and blogs because I prefer its interface to the built-in…
Came across an archived version of Apple’s website from April 1998. My, it wasn’t that long ago that Apple released a campaign slamming the Pentium II and extolling the virtues of the PowerPC processor. Who would have though that 7 years later, Apple would actually slam PowerPC and announce that they are going Intel instead? Imagine that, all Macintoshes will be x86, just like current PCs, by 2007! Even Dell CEO is looking forward to the day it may offer…
There’s a huge 92-page (!!!) mutl-blog software review done by Robin Good. Among other systems, it also covers Drupal and WordPress MU (Multi User). "Group blogs leverage the potential of immediacy and ease of use of traditional blogs while matching them with the facilities needed to support solid contribution of multiple writers. " Read the rest of it here. On another note, Tangent Mobile has also put up a review of Drupal and WordPress – 2 of my favourite CMS/blog…
Now that the Kubrick theme’s been ported to just about every CMS (Content Management System) or blogging software there is, the appearance of this repository of Kubrick headers sure it welcome!
It’s amazing just how far Moodle, an open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) project, has come. Several polytechnics in Australia have embarked on the largest deployment of Moodle to date. Four universities are likely to migrate to Moodle (probably from WebCT or Blackboard?) by July, and 10 secondary schools are already using it. While it is good to read about how money is being saved for channeling towards other educational needs too, I do wish that a "blueprint" for such…