The BBC reports today that Oxford proctors are using the Facebook website to gain evidence about unruly post-exam pranks. They are checking students’ profiles and photos to find evidence of students being at the sites where problems have been reported. This should remind us all to be careful about what
A blog: poses questions references other sources of information is about a topic that makes you (and other people) think can have a subject OR a context that links the posts: the context can be a what (sheds, a hobby) or a why – it gives the user an understanding
The first speaker at the Women Business & Blogging conference at DMU on Friday (8th June) was Meg Pickard, Head of Communities and User Experience for Guardian Unlimited. She spoke about “Whose Web is it anyway”. Meg introduced us to the levels of a user’s interactions with the internet starting
I can’t believe I never joined Technorati before… Technorati Profile
Helen Whitehead and Liz Cable from Reach Further will be attending the Women, Business & Blogging Conference at De Montfort University, Leicester, on 8th June 2007.
The word “blog” is short for “weblog” or “web log” It was originally a way for people to document the interesting sites they found on the web, so they were originally just a list of links with some description. Then the metajournalling craze caught on and blogs became something more
http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/guide2elearning/2-10/index.htm http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/ http://www.highcontext.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs/message/428 http://www.elise.com/mt/ http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/cat_news.asp http://www.criticalmethods.org/collab/2004/2/news.htm#1076912677340 http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/AnchorDesk/4520-7297_16-5131488.html INTERNET: WEBLOGS: What is a Weblog and Where do They Hide?<http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0405&L=temple-gold&P=R61339> INTERNET: WEBLOGS: A Selection of Published Articles About Weblogs <http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0405&L=temple-gold&P=R61619> ARTICLE: Blogs: Hanging Dirty Laundry On-Line<http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0406&L=temple-gold&P=R19368> Good advice from Phil Windley: How to Start a Blog http://www.windley.com/essays/2004/how_to_start_a_blog.html All from the WB-TOLL
What is a blog? This is a blog… :) Blogs (truncation of “weblogs”) developed from a combination of browser Favorites (Bookmarks), and online journals. Once software was implemented to expedite the process of updating a journal and adding links to interesting sites, a whole culture of blogging developed. Whether or
This paper discusses different questions of weblogs in context of higher education. It is focussing on three loosely coupled questions: 1. How can the weblog format improve discourse? 2. How it can weblogs support teaching at universities? 3. What are the institutional benefits of weblogs in universities?