One of the biggest challenges for academics seeking to engage students via open, independent, student-managed spaces particularly blogs, is how to aggregate and manage contributions for feedback and assessment purposes. Mike Bogle and I have been following the progress of David Jones’ BIM ; an activity module for Moodle (v1.9 – BIM will be ported [...]
Entries Tagged as 'blogging'
EduFeedr: free and unfettered
November 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Issues, Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Tools & applications
Tags:aggregation·blogging·blogs·edufeedr
WordPress MU blog sites and guide
December 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, Resources, Tools & applications
I’m looking forward to our WPMU blog pilot picking up steam in 2010 and have been using the quiet time to do some preparation. What has really surprised me is the dearth of existing how-to guides. There’s plenty around for how to install and step up WordPress but very little to get non-techie people started [...]
Mat Wall-Smith: in conversation
November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, TELT news, Tools & applications, Trends, UNSW spotlight
Last week Mike Bogle and I chatted with Mat Wall-Smith over coffee about New South Blogs, Mat’s work leading up to it’s existence, and media literacy in general. It was a rather noisy environment for recording but worth podcasting nevertheless. And in case you missed it here’s a link to Mat and Andrew’s recent interview [...]
Student blogging
May 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Debates, Learning & teaching, Networked learning
[image: Nic's events] One of the things we are contemplating and debating as part of this blog pilot at UNSW is if, or under what circumstances, UNSW should be offered to students. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Ideally I agree that we should be supporting learners to become independent, effective online communicators and collaborators. [...]
Tags:blogging·digitalliteracy·independence·learner·medialiteracy·student·web2.0
UNSW Blogs!
March 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Welcome to the new UNSW Blogging Platform! Over the past two years we’ve worked to establish this platform as part of a broader pilot project at the University to explore the provision of flexible spaces for learning and teaching. UNSW Blogs is powered by WordPress Multi-User, an open source platform and provides a flexible and [...]
Tags:blogging·Education·jokay·lots·of·tags·telt·testing·unswblogs·what