Posts Tagged ‘blog’
Blog solicitation
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 28, 2011
by The Rocketeer When I was living in the USA, I had a “No Soliciting!” sign on my front door. I disliked being disturbed by folks trying to sell offering questionable products or services. The sign was quite effective. I wish the same sign would work here in Singapore so that I don’t get flyers stuck [...]
Digital legacy
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 7, 2011
As a dad, I can relate to this Google ad… Video source I maintain more than one blog and have been blogging on behalf of my son since before he was born in 2004. We started our blog at LiveJournal, moved on to EduBlogs and now we are at Posterous. We lost a several months [...]
Why bother breaking the mould?
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 15, 2009
Steve Wheeler wrote two very interesting blog entries. One was “Why do I bother?” which outlined why he blogged. I can relate to his reasons. Also noteworthy are Jeff Cobb’s five reasons to reflect daily and John Connell’s slow blogging. Wheeler also wrote about breaking the mould of education, i.e. changing it radically for the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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