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Blogdigger in Action at UBC (September 9, 2004 09:54 PM)
More fun for Greg at Blogdigger ;-) My colleague Brian Lamb shared some nifty web resources for a class he is teaching at University of British Columbia. Remember, Rip-Mix-Burn... Specifically, he has created (rip) a Bloggdigger Group (a collection of chosen RSS feeds), that is itself turned into an RSS... «more»
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Blogs and Wikis: Two Outstanding EDUCAUSE Review Articles (August 28, 2004 10:31 PM)
Wow. That's about all, i can comment. Wow. The newest EDCAUSE Review has not one, but two top notch articles on things near and dear to the CogDog, blogs and wikis. These are so good I am ready to print them, something I almost never do (at least to stop... «more»
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A Time to Blog, A Time to Wiki, A Time to… (August 21, 2004 11:30 PM)
Friday was our first meeting for this upcoming academic with the faculty co-chairs of our Ocotillo Action Groups. Part of this was planning, part of it catch up in the research they did over the summer, but the first bit was me trying to get them up to speed on... «more»
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EDUCAUSE Seminar: Objects, Trackback, RSS... maybe even the kitchen sink (August 17, 2004 10:56 PM)
FYI and for self (and colleague Brian Lamb) promotion... if you are attending EDUCAUSE 2004 (October in Denver), sign up now for our pre-conference seminar Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, TrackBack, and Related Technologies: Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple,... «more»
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Blogger is Growing Up (Slimming Down?) New Navbar replaces Ads (August 17, 2004 08:13 PM)
It helps to have a little operation named "Google" behind you. The free blogs from Blogger.com have trashed those big fat ad banners and replaced it with a svelte navigation bar. As reported by the designer Douglas Bowman of stopdesign, there are 4 flavors to choose from, and the bar... «more»
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Irony: Blogs/Expert-Centric Views to Learning/Teacher-Centric Views (August 17, 2004 08:19 AM)
I told myself I would stop my critical writing mode kick, but am not listening. The RSS readers this morning brought in a Radiant Marketing link with interviews from the three of the Cluetrain dudes on the "future of blogging". Normally I would pass on something from a "Marketing Group"... «more»
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Zillman Blog Endless Link Loop: Where's the White Paper? (August 16, 2004 07:34 PM)
Sifting through the EDU_RSS feeds this evening, I found this reference: Bots, blogs and news aggregators The brilliant Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a free 20-page whitepaper on Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators (PDF). Good stuff. I'm working on a similar effort for a new Social Media blog I'm about... «more»
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Web-Unwieldly And Bowl Driving Ear (August 15, 2004 11:24 PM)
(I am reaching for an all-time obscure title for this entry). Out of curiosity, I followed a link from a TrackBack notification to this entry on Rino's Blog (in dutch): Weblogs voor studenten OK, we zijn het er na de posts van Alan Levine , Scott Leslie, Sybilla, Pierre, en... «more»
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Kick the Dog About the Blog (August 4, 2004 02:09 PM)
I asked for it. I got it. Some good, healthy, swift kicks regarding yesterdays 2 part frothy rants on This Ain't No Blogging (parts 1 and 2), both via comments and trackbacks. Thanks Scott, Dan. Stephen, James, David, Rino (I think, I cannot read Norwegian), Brian, Tom and everyone else... «more»
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"This A'int No Blogging" Part 2: Echo Blogging or Connecting (August 3, 2004 04:59 PM)
As hoped, I already got some bark backs on "This A'int No Blogging" Part 1: If a Blog Falls in the Woods.... And as rightfully pointed out, comments are not all there is to being part of the blogging community- see the well thought comments just made by Stephen Downes... «more»
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"This A'int No Blogging" Part 1: If a Blog Falls in the Woods... (August 3, 2004 07:38 AM)
I am going to write something in this first of two posts that I bet (and hope) a lot of people will disagree with. I want that. I want to hear your dissent. That is what this stuff is about. Here it is, I make my own artificial distinction between... «more»
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Stephen Blogs then Spammers Mob (July 27, 2004 06:08 PM)
I hold Stephen Downes as the uber edu-blogger- and givne his following, when he mentions one of our sites like he did today, the comments come flying in, the Trackback meter spikes... and as an un-intended sign of the ripples in the net, the spammers swarm in like a bunch... «more»
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More RSS Joins for the Ocotillo Action Groups (July 27, 2004 10:43 AM)
Recently, I outlined our "small pieces (not so loosely) joined" approach for setting up a system of blogs + wikis + discussion boards for the work next year by our faculty-led action groups. These groups will be leading activities next year related to Learning Objects, ePortfolios, Hybrid Course structures, and... «more»
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When Blogs Soar (Like a Pb Balloon?) (July 25, 2004 09:01 AM)
I fervently believe in the power of potential of weblogs, for students, teachers, and people in general, as a powerful, expressive platform, and have been beating the drum for the last year and a half. At the same time, I also wonder, with a Keith Moon accent, whether they will... «more»
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A Love Affair with Blogs (July 21, 2004 04:17 PM)
A faculty member I am nudging into blogging shared this beautiful essay about blogging, Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs by Kate Baggott. I would try to summarize, but this award winning essay says it all: Show me your context, baby. I already know the world... «more»
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Not a Big WordPress fan (July 20, 2004 05:07 PM)
Just stumbled into LiteraryMoose, who minces no words about The Misery of Open-Source Software or Why I don't Use Wordpress This document collects some thoughts on WordPress 1.2, supposedly the greatest invention since sliced ice cubes. What they claim on their front page, is argued point by point, based on... «more»
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Small Pieces (Not So?) Loosely Joined (and already spammed) (July 15, 2004 12:24 AM)
Our NMC 2004 Small Pieces session intended to make a case for creating effective net-based collaboration using a discrete set of free tools, not so tightly controlled. This was fine, fun, and (frilly), but I wanted to describe here how we are trying to implement this for some real work.... «more»
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3 Steves And a Blog (July 12, 2004 10:26 PM)
I could not resist coming up with a cute name for a blogspace for Steve Gilbert, Stephen Ehrmann, and Steve Saltzberg, all with the TLTGroup (Teaching, Learning, Technology Group)- hence 3 Steves And a Blog. This started when I proposed to the Charles Ansorge, the current maintainer of the TLTGroup's... «more»
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Thinking, Writing About the Small Pieces (NMC 2004) (July 7, 2004 09:13 PM)
Brian Alger has been doing some nice reflecting on the concepts of our NMC 2004 "Small Piecess Loosely Joined" idea- recently writing about "Weblogs: Which Pieces and How Should They Joined? (NMC 2004)"... I would have written, but Brian's blog lacks a comment function (I find that a gaping large... «more»
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NMC 2004 After the Pieces (have not fallen) (June 18, 2004 02:58 PM)
It's been more than a day since our Small Technologies Loosely Joined session and Brian, D'Arcy and I are pleasantly amazed that 35+ turned out for the last session of the day, put up with a small cramped room with not enough electrical outlets, and a zany activity of task... «more»
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Holy Blog! What a Wiki! Together (June 11, 2004 01:07 PM)
Holy _____! Over at Open Artifact, Randy Brown has neatly sewn together a neat package: phpWiki inside and integrated with his new WordPress blog, so it more or less operates as a cohesive site and sharing the WP database. It addresses some of the issues of trying to tie into... «more»
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What the Wiki is Happening? A Blank Wall, Free Spray Paint, and .... (June 8, 2004 10:28 PM)
We're closely watching the NMC 2004 presentation on "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" wiki, checking the changes.. but beyond a few individuals, it is a pretty quiet place. Okay, so I wrote a bit harshly on Martin for his own thoughts on the Pieces, but hey, I was bored! I fessed... «more»
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The Word is Out: Small Technologies Loosely Joined - NMC 2004 (June 2, 2004 01:47 PM)
Diffusing through blogspace, beyond our control, goes an upcoming "presentation" at the June 2004 NMC Conference, what we have cobbled together is called "Small Technologies Loosely Joined: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" that I am doing with colleagues Brian Lamb and D'Arcy Norman. Here I will talk a bit... «more»
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LearningTimes Interview Down Under: Alan on the Barbie? (May 29, 2004 07:58 PM)
From some previous visits with excellent learning leaders in Australia and continued contacts with colleagues there, I was asked to be audio interviewed online June 2 (here) via the LearningTimes site "Live Session: RSS, Blogging and What it Means for Teaching and Learning" (It is free, but you need to... «more»
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Comparison Shopping for Blogware (May 20, 2004 04:52 PM)
Are you tired of your current weblog software? Does MovableType's new pricing make your blood boil? Sick of stomping spam? Hate your side bar? How much would you pay for a new weblog system? If you call before midnight tonight.... Well, there are not really midnight ads hawking blog software,... «more»
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New Tool BlogPulse (and how to GET what they POST) (May 14, 2004 07:33 AM)
Somewhere in the aggregator today came a pointer to a new blog search tool, BlogPulse BlogPulse is an "automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the... «more»
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Blogs and RSS WebQuest (May 7, 2004 06:32 AM)
Nice.... "Blogs and RSS- Tools for Creating, Collecting, and Sharing Ideas Online" , presented as a WebQuest: "Learn about tools that will forever change the way you gather information online and separate the online publishing from the technical hurdles typically associated with running a web site" This has your basic... «more»
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Grab Book Page 23 Sentence 5 Meme (May 5, 2004 07:06 PM)
Spreading to a blog near you: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Okay, here goes. I have a copy of Clifford Stoll's Silicon Snake Oil... «more»
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Dan Sez Bloggers Need to Get Out More... So I Did (May 3, 2004 10:31 PM)
Actually, my weekend adventure was not influenced at all by Dan Gillmor's post One Reason Bloggers Need to Get Out More , but I thought I would not give him credit anyhow ;-) Getting out is good for the mind, soul, and body, so Sunday morning, from our escape hideaway... «more»
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3 College Centers for Teaching & Learning Are A' Bloggin' (April 28, 2004 11:21 PM)
A number of our Maricopa colleges have their own faculty support centers for faculty development and technology infusion... we try and build some collaboration amongst them. Three of them now have been or are starting to, use weblogs to publish resources and events of interest tot heir faculty, actually all... «more»
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Post-Blog Wrap of of PhotoBlogging Presentation (April 28, 2004 05:56 PM)
Well I think it went well. You just are not 100% sure doing an online presentation who is snoring at the other end. But we had some good discussion and some folks finally popped some images to a Conference PhotoBlog-- oops, I forgot the context. Last week, I presented "Publish... «more»
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Pat and the Official Blog Welcome (April 25, 2004 02:28 PM)
Maybe minutes after mentioning I was in San Francisco for a Pachyderm meeting, I was contacted via em-mail and then iChat by Pat Delaney who offered to meet up and show me the sites off the tourist beaten track. This was great,a s was hearing some of Pat's work at... «more»
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"The Blog" (April 16, 2004 08:09 AM)
I am curious if other educators have heard this from students newly introduced to weblogs- from the interviews I did last week for a photoblogging presentation and at other times, I have heard more than one student refer to a blog hosting web site such as TypePad, Blogger, Buzznet, as... «more»
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TCC2004 PhotoBlog Taking Off (April 14, 2004 05:32 PM)
My presentation on PhotoBlogging at the Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference is inching along- tomorrow is the big sprint to wrap up all the audio for the Breeze Presentation. Biff is out of town, so I will have to wing it alone. I have a tape of... «more»
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Coming To a Browser Near You: 2 Presentations on PhotoBlogging (April 12, 2004 01:16 AM)
I have two presentations looming for the April 20-22 Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference, both related to creating online content out of primarily digital images. The wraps are still up, the ink is wet, and the typos run freely, but it is falling into place nicely. I... «more»
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CogDogMoBlog (WinkSite) (March 17, 2004 02:48 PM)
Sometimes technology is just playing around. I am guilty of that for the last 45 minutes. But with a curious interest in the now fringe-world of "moblogging" (mobile blogs, or accessing blogs via mobile phones), I stumbled across WinkSite, which allows anyone to create a web site / blog that... «more»
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More on Maricopa Bloggers (March 16, 2004 02:26 PM)
This slipped off my "to-do" list, and fell into the crevice behind my desk ;-) Back in February, I mentioned our Online Learning Group meeting where we had some local demos of how some of our faculty are starting to use weblogs. Well, I forgot to come back and post... «more»
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Beware of Blogs in Plaid Jackets (February 11, 2004 06:44 AM)
While opportunistic greed vultures are circling over RSS, the used blog sales men have set up their hawkster wares down on the corner. Witness BlogToRiche$.com: Imagine earning an additional income, or more, by doing what you are already doing...BLOGGING! That's right, I've outlined the basic techniques of how to use... «more»
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Blogging In the Wind (January 16, 2004 11:45 PM)
Ever since I launched this weblog April 2003, I have been talking up blogs quite a bit in my system. The usual heat seekers grab on to the potential and some of the more technology skeptical folks at least do not wrinkle their brows in confusion when I mention "blog".... «more»
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Coming Soon: "ecto", son of Kung-Log (January 6, 2004 09:05 PM)
I've raved before about Kung-Log, Adriaan Tijsseling's amazingly sleek Mac OXS application for doing just about all the MovableType composing and editing. Change is on the way and it is good- Adriaan is at work on a new version, re-named "ecto". In fact, I am "ecto"-ing this entry now in... «more»
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Ari's Big List of Blog Search Engines (January 6, 2004 06:46 AM)
Ari Paparo assembled a longer than you might expected list of web search tools for specifically searching weblogs and/or RSS feeds. My new theory on blogging is that whenever I can't find a particular piece of information on Google I should just create it myself. What's the point of all... «more»
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"Blog on Blogs"- excellent educational example of weblog use (December 15, 2003 09:24 PM)
Blog on Blogs, a Weblog Review does double duty as a great resource for getting a handle on weblogs and a wonderful example of using blogs in an educational context, a New Media Studies course: This project is collaboration produced by the students of the Fall 2003 Introduction to New... «more»
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Take Back What Net? (December 13, 2003 08:48 AM)
Supposedly in "Take Back the Net", the Dec 30 issue of PC Magazine has sent Blogging, wikis, and RSS mainstream, according to a entry by Michelle. The article does provide a nice overview of the range of major blog tools, has some decent resources, etc, but there are some statements... «more»
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Gibson Gives up the Blog (December 11, 2003 05:59 AM)
Related to recent wonderings of "Where Have All the Bloggers Gone?", it appears that author William Gibson is blogged out. In "Last Postcard from Costa Del Blog", Gibson pens: Time for me to get back to my day job, which means that it’s time for me to stop blogging. I’ve... «more»
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Metadata for weblogs-- blizg (December 5, 2003 07:10 AM)
Go ahead, try and pronounce it... Blizg - The Blog Resource. Blizg is a blog index that focuses on metadata. We want to promote the use of metadata in the blogging community. We're also excited about finding new ways to use metadata that will create useful connections between and among... «more»
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"Where have all the bloggers gone?" (December 3, 2003 08:20 PM)
Cue the folk music, Pete... Where have all the bloggers gone? Long time passing. Where have all the bloggers gone? Long time ago. Where have all the bloggers gone? Spammers have picked them ev'ry one. Oh, when will you ever learn? Oh, when will you ever learn? My RSS reader... «more»
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Business BlogShop (or how I slept through that day in profiteering class) (November 21, 2003 09:32 PM)
I musta been sleepin' that day they covered bizness models. Here them smart folks in the Windy city offer Business Blog / Weblog Workshop by BloggingWorks One day workshop on how your business can harness the power of weblogs to improve efficiency and communication. a smokin deal at $395 per... «more»
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Go, Blog. Go! (November 4, 2003 12:25 PM)
Out of coincidence, I was recently reminded of one my most important, early literary influences. No, not Dickens, not Dostoevsky, not Thoreau... it was P.D. Eastman's timeless classic, Go, Dog. Go! (GDG). In fact, I still have a copy of GDG in my office. Not the one I had... «more»
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