Been playing with QuikMaps over the past week and found it to be a really easy tool to use especially if you don’t want to mess around with geographical coordinates. I put a map in preparation for my workshop that shows where comments are coming to this blog from around the world. I couldn’t seem [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2006
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Earlier in the year, Will Richardson highlighted a pay for test results plan coming out of Texas that had him “oy”ing in dismay. I was astounded at the time and said so in the comments section but thought that maybe it was a particular peculiarity of that US state. After all, Wes Fryer was putting [...]
Thanks to the edubloggers who responded via comments and personal e-mail to my request about personal blogging habits. Your methods are as individual as you all are. I just know that how to fit in blogging into lives that are already pretty full is going to be one of the questions I’ll get asked at [...]
I attended an informative meeting tonight of educators interested in exploring the potential of blogging within our education system as a follow on from the Blogging Masterclass of last month. Now the purpose of this post is not to rehash the proceedings or the discussion from that hour, as productive as it was. I didn’t [...]
At the July CEGSA conference, I will be presenting a workshop titled Blogging As Professional Learning as well as co-presenting with Al Upton in a presentation. Now I don’t want to be presumptous about anyone who reads my blog, but I have a favour to ask anyone reading for a considered response. As part of [...]
Mobile technologies are constantly being developed and released into the marketplace with wireless being touted as the solution to accessing networks and the web whilst on the go. This is going to come into play more and more in education and if schools want to implement wireless solutions, then we’d better have some people on [...]
Just watched a very interesting doco on our “fifth” television station here, SBS, on the spreading influence of Google. It was titled, “Google: Behind The Screen” and was an interesting expose behind the rise of Google and its widening and sometimes tightening grip on our world of digital information. It was put together by a [...]
Although it is rarely a good idea to do something just because everyone else is, I can’t resist the call emanating from the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, challenging edubloggers everywhere to list their Top 10 posts. I assume it’s a personal choice because otherwise I’m going to have to go digging through my Google Analytics [...]
I signed up for a Google Analytics account a while back and got set up in early May tracking stats from this blog. As it is one of the plugins here at edublogs.org, it was very easy to get going and the Analytics site gives you a full array of data and pretty graphs to [...]
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