Posts Tagged ‘blog’
Prezi updates
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 31, 2009
Some tool updates at the Prezi blog.
UK to shake up primary education?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 26, 2009
How could I not blog about something that three Tweeters I am following mentioned?
If you visited The Guardian, you might have come across this headline: Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up. Of course the headline was sensationalistic, but it was quite accurate too.
I think that the bottom line was not so [...]
Why edu-blog?
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 19, 2009
News articles or Stomp entries like this crop up from time to time: Teachers blog and they get attention for the wrong reasons.
That is why I get my trainees to edu-blog. They are not only reflecting as they experience my course. Nor are they simply providing opportunities for informal learning and interaction. They must learn [...]
Twitblogs
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 22, 2008
Twitblogs sounds like an insult, doesn’t it? It is actually a service that allows you to go beyond the 140-character limit of Twitter… if you need to. According to their Web site, you already have a Twitblog account if you have a Twitter account!
But I am not sure what to think about this service. Twitter [...]
Blog, without blogging
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 2, 2008
I will be overseas and on vacation this week. But I will continue to blog with my netbook and as long as I have wireless access. I could also “blog” if I used a new service.
WordPressDirect.com allows you to blog with blogging. The service automatically creates blog entries based on keywords that you specify. This [...]
Blog with Word 2007 or Live Writer
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 1, 2008
I like using a separate client to write blog entries. I used one when I maintained a blog at LiveJournal and MS Word when I had another at Blogspot.
These clients are more convenient because you can save local copies (make offline backups) and may be faster depending on how cumbersome your blog provider’s editor is.
Beginning [...]
Edublog’s university of blogs
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 20, 2008
Edublogs recently announced “The University of Blogs“. Unfortunately, you can’t get a degree in blogging here!
The University of Blogs is actually a demonstration of a multi-blog management tool. Take a look at the video at the link above to find out about some nifty features. From an educator’s and administrator’s point of view, I think [...]
The death of blogging?
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 4, 2008
Based on a Wired writer’s analysis, individual, personal and non-professional blogging is going the way of the dinosaur. And it took just four years for the art of blogging to give way to “blogzines” and fresher, cooler ways of airing your views.
If the writer is to be believed, the new “blogs” are Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, [...]
DOS attacks blog providers
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 28, 2008
First it was WordPress blogs and then LiveJournal blogs. Yahoo! Tech reported that both were hit with denial of service (DOS) attacks over the weekend.
I did not experience any problems, but that is likely because 1) I avoid blogging on weekends, and 2) WordPress has always been relatively slow for me!
Wherefore art thou?
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 8, 2008
Bloglines and Edublogs, you let me down! I think you let some of my preservice teachers down too!
I love that Edublogs was set up with educators and students in mind. The fact that it has a WordPress engine was a plus too. This gave it RSS feeds for comments and other conveniences. But Edublogs is [...]
