Australians embrace open source browser

“THE proportion of Australians using Mozilla Firefox to surf the web is among the highest in the world, according to internet trend research.”

Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer Input, Stuart Glogoff

Stuart Glogoff expounds on the educational applications of blogs—simple Web pages that can have surprisingly complex classroom applications. Situating his commentary in the context of pedagogical theory, Glogoff outlines the ways in which blogs can enable receptive learning, directive learning, and guided discovery. Reflecting on successful practices in his own classroom, he also reveals how blogs can build community, promote interactivity, and increase student comprehension. This account of blogging technology as a learning tool provides models that instructors of both online and hybrid courses will find helpful.

The educated blogger, David Huffaker

Using weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom by David Huffaker

Blogs and Wikis, edna.edu.au

The purpose of this theme page is to bring resources about blogging together in one easy reference spot.

Twitter and their hosting company, Joyent, have parted ways, which appears to have thrown the microblogging application into a state of disarray. This comes amidst a cloud of continuing displeasure across the Twittersphere in which users are voicing their contempt at the ongoing rolling outages that have plagued the application over the last 24 to 36 hours.

In a post yesterday (“ We had a rough night. But now we’re back.“) Ev from Twitter expressed their regrets and apologies at the problems, but as of yet no explanations have emerged as to what is going on.

According to Duncan Riley, Twitter is now being hosted by Verio.

Note what isn’t clear currently is how to locate and access other WordPress blogs by a posting author. This could be remedied by several options including:

• Post signatures that were pasted in at the bottom of each post (drawback: manual and repetitive process)
• A posting author’s blogroll
• References to blogs and/or blog posts when appropriate

Excellent, as promised Forrest’s posts are being categorised under his name – click Forrest D to bring up all posts by this author. His image appears beside the the posts he’s authored; or in the case of multiple sequential posts, beside the most recent one.

Additionally, posts tagged using a common convention all appear in the same page despite being created my multiple authors. Look at testing for example.

The Horizon Project Wiki – 2008 Edition

“Welcome to the workspace for the Horizon Project. This space was created as a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the 2007 Horizon Report, which was co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI).”

Elgg – social network software for education

In part one of this series, e-learning 2.0 – how Web technologies are shaping education, I described the way in which teachers and students are embracing web technologies such as blogging and podcasting. Although not designed specifically for use in education, these tools are helping to make e-learning far more personal, social, and flexible. Elgg, in contrast, is social networking software designed especially for education – built from the ground up to support learning.

e-learning 2.0 – how Web technologies are shaping education

Written by Steve O’Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. This is a two-part series in which Steve will explore how Web technologies are being used in education. In Part 2 he will profile Elgg, social network software for education, and interview its founders.