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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
New post
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Just testing.
emailing a blog post.
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Emma Duke-Williams
http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
School of Computing / Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator
Room 1-28, Buckingham Building
Portsmouth
PO1 3AE
Tel:- 023 9284 6441
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Moved again!
I've now moved my blog again, as we had to change servers at work - so it's hosted at:
http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog
I've been getting quite into WordPress, though coming back here to add this post (and to do a couple of other things as testing), I see that Blogger now has quite a few more options.
To start with, for some reason, it had auto-enabled the auto-transliteration into Hindi - which caused a few problems. Luckily I'd seen that option, or I'd have been *very* confused...
I've just added a Grazr feed reader, using my bloglines account to feed it. In theory, Grazr would have let me integrate it from Grazr, however, I had to use the new "layout" option in Blogger to add in the code that Grazr generates.
http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog
I've been getting quite into WordPress, though coming back here to add this post (and to do a couple of other things as testing), I see that Blogger now has quite a few more options.
To start with, for some reason, it had auto-enabled the auto-transliteration into Hindi - which caused a few problems. Luckily I'd seen that option, or I'd have been *very* confused...
I've just added a Grazr feed reader, using my bloglines account to feed it. In theory, Grazr would have let me integrate it from Grazr, however, I had to use the new "layout" option in Blogger to add in the code that Grazr generates.
Friday, February 18, 2005
New Blog
After a lot of hassle last night, I've managed to move this blog to my work website... so it's now at http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/
Creating the new blog - which is powered by WordPress wasn't difficult. Neither, in theory were the instructions for converting it.
The problem was that Blogger kept timing out - so would get to 50% and stop. It took about 6 hours to finally get a time when it went through. If anyone else is trying, I'd suggest you try early in the (UK) morning, when Blogger seems a little quicker.
As a result, I'm not going to be updating this one. New entries will be on the new blog. The next task though will be to start categorising all the old posts - as well as working out how to put the accessible template on there.
Creating the new blog - which is powered by WordPress wasn't difficult. Neither, in theory were the instructions for converting it.
The problem was that Blogger kept timing out - so would get to 50% and stop. It took about 6 hours to finally get a time when it went through. If anyone else is trying, I'd suggest you try early in the (UK) morning, when Blogger seems a little quicker.
As a result, I'm not going to be updating this one. New entries will be on the new blog. The next task though will be to start categorising all the old posts - as well as working out how to put the accessible template on there.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
another anime/life blog
another anime/life blogI've just found this on a link from TabletPC Buzz - it's an example of a blog by a student, who's using his tablet in Class a lot. However, the reason for putting it in, is to give an example of the way he's commenting on what he's learning in class. (It's an American Uni - hence some things seeming a bit odd to us).
Prototyping and web interface design
Prototyping and web interface designA very useful list of tools to assist in interface design. Collated by one of the MSc eLearning students.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
NewsMap
I've just found another program put together by Marumushi - who have done FlickrGraph, which I've already mentioned. This one is NewsMap - which shows different news items round the world. It's presented in a different manner than FlickrGraph - and worth a look.
lecture from hell
jill/txt lecture from hell Well I've not had anything quite that bad! THough just hoping that I won't have something like that on Friday - let's hope that we have got the software sorted for the DISIP tutorial though.
The VLE of the Future.
Scott Wilson (from CETIS) has an overview of what he sees as being the VLE of the future ... he feels that
The VLE of the future will look less like a Content Management System or Intranet, and more like a cross between Shrook, SubEthaEdit,XJournal, iChat, iCal, and iTunes (well, on a Mac at least). It will be slick and minimal, and will actually be fun to use.
He also adds
The VLE will not be institutional, it will be personal, and it will have features that support informal as well as formal learning situations, and a whole range of social activities that we would barely recognize as "learning" today.
Sounds interesting - and a world away from WebCT!
The VLE of the future will look less like a Content Management System or Intranet, and more like a cross between Shrook, SubEthaEdit,XJournal, iChat, iCal, and iTunes (well, on a Mac at least). It will be slick and minimal, and will actually be fun to use.
He also adds
The VLE will not be institutional, it will be personal, and it will have features that support informal as well as formal learning situations, and a whole range of social activities that we would barely recognize as "learning" today.
Sounds interesting - and a world away from WebCT!
Network EducationWare - Open Source Synchronous A/V Conferencing Software
Scott Leslie - who runs EdTechPost, is very impressed with Network EducationWare, an open source conferencing system developed by George Mason University. It includes the ability to share slides etc for a presentation, a text based chat, and a whiteboard. There is audio - both to record in advance with the slides, or for an audio chat session.
The slides themselves are distributed as pdf files, though can be uploaded in a number of formats.
There is also a video option, though due to bandwidth, George Mason haven't used it that much.
The slides themselves are distributed as pdf files, though can be uploaded in a number of formats.
There is also a video option, though due to bandwidth, George Mason haven't used it that much.
Fangs
Fangs is a Firefox extension that will let you see a visual representation of a web page - structured as a screen reader for visually impaired users would hear the information. It's still in beta, so there are a few issues. It's a lot cheaper than buying JAWS, the most used screen reader, but it also gives a bit more infomation than Bobby or WAVE do.
MetaData for Education - FAQ
CETIS have launched a Wiki to cover Educational aspects of Metadata.
They state:
This Metadata FAQ has been developed collaboratively during 2004 by participants from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and other organisations including CanCore, ADL, JES and Co and CETIS. This FAQ provides guidelines and information and has no official status within any of these organisations. The intention is to continue this work and encourage participation from the wider community with the assistance of a Wiki hosted by CETIS.
At present, there aren't too many entries, but they seem to be useful - of course, like all these community things, they need to be used.
They state:
This Metadata FAQ has been developed collaboratively during 2004 by participants from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and other organisations including CanCore, ADL, JES and Co and CETIS. This FAQ provides guidelines and information and has no official status within any of these organisations. The intention is to continue this work and encourage participation from the wider community with the assistance of a Wiki hosted by CETIS.
At present, there aren't too many entries, but they seem to be useful - of course, like all these community things, they need to be used.
Academics give lessons on blogs
A report on the BBc site looks at blogging in academia. Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom.
They mention the same History PhD student who was mentioned in a similar article in the Guardian, back in October. They also look at Warwick, though David Supple from Birmingham does raise a note of caution:
"This type of technology is very open and easy to instigate and that often means in the rush to use it, the bigger questions on the most effective ways to use the technology without creating legal and reputational issues for the institution are forgotten or end up being asked too late."
They mention the same History PhD student who was mentioned in a similar article in the Guardian, back in October. They also look at Warwick, though David Supple from Birmingham does raise a note of caution:
"This type of technology is very open and easy to instigate and that often means in the rush to use it, the bigger questions on the most effective ways to use the technology without creating legal and reputational issues for the institution are forgotten or end up being asked too late."
Recording online audio interactions
FlickrGraph
Flickr is an online photo storage service that works with Blogs (it's the one that I used to include the MSc team photo). Flickrgraph is a service that creates social graphs of photos from members photos.
This example is from someone who has a lot of photos. YOu can also use the "Who's online" options to see the FlickrGraph of any members that are online when you are.
This example is from someone who has a lot of photos. YOu can also use the "Who's online" options to see the FlickrGraph of any members that are online when you are.
Monday, February 07, 2005
Microsoft Research: Conference XP
Microsoft Research Learning Experience Project
Initially this seemed like a good idea - conference software - free - to allow you to conference between 2 classrooms. However, while the software is free ... the hardware required isn't ...
Clearly Video conferencing is going to grow and grow, whether it's just the web cam on the top of the monitor, or a much more complex system.
Initially this seemed like a good idea - conference software - free - to allow you to conference between 2 classrooms. However, while the software is free ... the hardware required isn't ...
Clearly Video conferencing is going to grow and grow, whether it's just the web cam on the top of the monitor, or a much more complex system.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Interview with a link spammer
The Register has an interview with a "link Spammer". A link spammer is someone who trawls a variety of sources, (including blogs) to put links to assorted sites (generally selling things that I've no interest in buying)...
So the link spammers - who prefer to call themselves "search engine optimisers", but get upset when search engines do optimise themselves - turned to other free outlets which Google already regarded highly, because their content changes so often: blogs. And especially blogs' comments, where trusting bloggers expected people to put nice agreeable remarks about what they'd written, rather than links to PPC sites. Ah well. Nothing personal.
"Sam", the person being interviewed, goes on to discuss the process of spamming. So far, touch wood, this blog hasn't been spammed, perhaps because you have to be signed in to blogger to leave a comment. However, another blog that I set up as a test on a personal account, which I didn't require logging in to use, has been inundated - and this is a site that has a "no index" robots file - in other words, the site should only be accessible to anyone who guesses the URL ... - and then the path of the blog.
(I've now disabled open commenting!)
So the link spammers - who prefer to call themselves "search engine optimisers", but get upset when search engines do optimise themselves - turned to other free outlets which Google already regarded highly, because their content changes so often: blogs. And especially blogs' comments, where trusting bloggers expected people to put nice agreeable remarks about what they'd written, rather than links to PPC sites. Ah well. Nothing personal.
"Sam", the person being interviewed, goes on to discuss the process of spamming. So far, touch wood, this blog hasn't been spammed, perhaps because you have to be signed in to blogger to leave a comment. However, another blog that I set up as a test on a personal account, which I didn't require logging in to use, has been inundated - and this is a site that has a "no index" robots file - in other words, the site should only be accessible to anyone who guesses the URL ... - and then the path of the blog.
(I've now disabled open commenting!)
Can web service technology really help enable "coherent diversity" in e-learning
This quite long article on the JISC eLearning site, looks at web services, and their links with eLearning.
The term "web services", is used by Scott Wilson to cover RSS, iCalendar (a way of sharing calendars, though it's not XML based as other services are), and IMS Specification for people & groups (XML based).
Having given an overview of the services, he then moves through the pedagogy, dividing it into 6 categories:
A useful article I feel.
The term "web services", is used by Scott Wilson to cover RSS, iCalendar (a way of sharing calendars, though it's not XML based as other services are), and IMS Specification for people & groups (XML based).
Having given an overview of the services, he then moves through the pedagogy, dividing it into 6 categories:
- Interaction mode
- Connection mode
- Engagement mode
- Structuring device
- Structural affordance
- Workflow
A useful article I feel.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Tablet PC
Up and running! I'm so pleased, I've got it up and running, following the ideas on this thread at TabletPC Buzz (site down at present, but was there before!)
Given that most of the sites I've read about the M200 discuss the fact that you can't use the restore CDs if you don't have an external Toshiba CD (I have a Freecom one), then I'm quite glad that I've managed it. Luckily a colleague has the same Laptop, so we were able to copy the relevant folders (I386 & CMPNENTS) to a CD, and from there build the install one with SP2 integrated.
So, now just putting on the million and 1 drivers that it seems to need - then it will be AntiVirus, much of the security software mentioned in a previous thread, and the many MS updates since SP2...
Given that most of the sites I've read about the M200 discuss the fact that you can't use the restore CDs if you don't have an external Toshiba CD (I have a Freecom one), then I'm quite glad that I've managed it. Luckily a colleague has the same Laptop, so we were able to copy the relevant folders (I386 & CMPNENTS) to a CD, and from there build the install one with SP2 integrated.
So, now just putting on the million and 1 drivers that it seems to need - then it will be AntiVirus, much of the security software mentioned in a previous thread, and the many MS updates since SP2...
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
International Weblog Workshop
A 6 week workshop, aimed at those using blogs in EFL/ESL teaching. They are using a variety of online services, such as Yahoo Groups, a Bravenet Map (to show where participants are), TappedIn - for chat sessions, and so on. It seems to be as well as a forum for discussing how blogs might be used in EFL, an example also of all the free services that are out there, if you can find them.
There are also LOTS of resources for using Blogs in the Classroom, most of them not concentrating on Language classrooms. (See the links to "Webquest")
There are also LOTS of resources for using Blogs in the Classroom, most of them not concentrating on Language classrooms. (See the links to "Webquest")
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