Edubeacon

By now the news of the closure of Al Upton’s MiniLegends student blogging site at the request of DECS South Australia has circulated widely.   As educators, it’s a discussion in which we must all be involved if we are to assist our own school administrators in establishing a position in relation to the use of these public web tools.  [...]

This morning I went in search of a Radio National interview that I missed last week with the British author of The Cult of the Amateur , Andrew Keen.    Listened to it as a podcast direct from the ABC site but then I decided to do a further search and found it on Youtube as a [...]

Weblogs are rapidly becoming easier to use and offering an alternative to email and listservs. They can be made private to a specific group or public to the world. This article (August 3, 2004) by Dan David from eSchool news gives some idea of the possibilities that are ahead of us. RSS could transform online [...]