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

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.

The 2007 Edublog Awards: And the 2007 winners are…

“Huge thanks to everyone who helped make the fourth International Edublog Awards such a great success! This was our first attempt at using a Second Life location – the beautiful Island of Jokaydia – and Jeff Lebow did an amazing job of managing sound in and out world.”

“Linux an inspiration for new ideas: expert“, Australian IT, Catherine Armitage | January 30, 2008

“Michael Gibbons, director of science and technology policy research at Britain’s Sussex University, said universities must abandon their centuries-old model of linear knowledge transfer and instead open their doors and minds to knowledge exchange with competitors and students.”