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

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.

Using weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom by David Huffaker

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

After this i realised i was very hungry, and by hook or by crook im going to have a 30 min lunch break for a change . For those out there who dont cook much, i did some recent experimenting. I grabbed a meaty salmon steak, threw it on the pan, soaked it in 2 lemons worth of juice and doused it in cracked black pepper. I boiled some pasta, sliced up some tomatos and cucumbers and threw them into the pan once the salmon was cooked. Yum. Amazingly it turned out…

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.

• 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

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

More information can be found on this link: ESL through Music and there is a section outputted at the end.

When various types of verbal information (e.g., multiplication tables, spelling lists) have been presented simultaneously with music, memorization has been enhanced (Gfeller, 1983; Schuster and Mouzon, 1982). Research on the effectiveness of rhythm, a subcomponent of music, has been equally favorable.

“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).”