Janet Clarey has blogged this month about Women in the edublogosphere 2007She says “When I first started blogging early in ‘07 I felt there weren’t that many female bloggers.”Which is so sad – I’ve been blogging since 2003, and I know a lot of women, especially in the new media
Helping your potential customers to connect with other people can pay dividends in many ways. You can help them to make the decision to buy your products by providing an environment conducive to persuasion. Research shows that people are most likely to make a decision if they are allowed to
Some questions to think about when planning to use blogs with students: What is the purpose of the blog – make sure it is clear – is it linked to assessment? If it isn’t assessed will they bother to use it – probably not? Do you use a class group
While I’ve been away with a virus (head rather than computer…) the winners of the Edublog 2007 awards have been announced. They are a great selection of blogs. I was intrigued by the “most influential blog post” which is the one by Karl Fisch back in 2006 which started the
Here are some of the most representative library blogs I’ve found. Some librarian blogs are among the best blogs I’ve read. Must be something about librarians and information… From the UK, USA and Australia. Peter Scott’s Library Blog http://xrefer.blogspot.com/ Links Cambridge University Medical Library http://cambridgemedicallibrary.blogspot.com/ Facts Spineless (Heriot Watt) http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/
Creative Learning Activities with Moodle Interesting set of slides from Paula de Waal at Padua University about being creative in using the tools available in Moodle. Ideas also applicable for other VLEs – we can all try to be more creative about the tools we’ve got. A bit trivial –
Blogging as-you-go isn’t as easy as I thought. I was too tired last night to blog about yesterday so now I have two days’ worth to try to encapsulate! I’ve decided I don’t like live blogging – I’m too chicken to blog directly into Blogger, and have been trying it
The Web, and especially the user-generated opportunities now available in communities and Web 2.0 applications, are revolutionising the way we get our news. Yesterday and today was a good example. One’s heart goes out to the relatives of those killed and injured in the dramatic bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Bloggers,
HotHouse, a leading Australian strategic online solutions company, has an interesting blog (noise) about web strategy, online marketing, and using Web 2.0 to grow your business. A useful place to see up-to-date information from an Australian perspective, and thought-provoking comment for us all. For example they point out that the
A community of practice defines itself along three dimensions:– What it is about – its joint enterprise as understood and continually renegotiated by its members– How it functions – mutual engagement that bind members together into a social entity– What capability it has produced – the shared repertoire of communal