Tag Archives: EduBlogging

Aggregating a large class

By alex | Published: 2/22/2006
I started out the semester planning on using my own blogging server for my 360-person class. The advantage was simple: I had set it up so that when students set up a blog, it was automatically included on a lilina-based aggregator. I had used the lilina aggregator in earlier, smaller classes, and liked its combination […]
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Kindness of blog servers

By alex | Published: 1/13/2006
Week before classes start. Everybody wants everything, now. I’m still working on things that needed to be done in 2005. And so, my blog server dies. No, not this one, the one that I set up for the students. And early next week, 400 students in my class, and many others in other classes are […]
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Dogears and classroom ROI

By alex | Published: 11/24/2005
Interesting brief article in Queue on IBM’s Dogear social bookmarking tool for the enterprise. It appears to be a system like del.icio.us, but with the ability to assign groups and to set up levels of privacy. They skip over the most interesting and difficult part: How to get folks to use it! They casually mention […]
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del.icio.us for class

By alex | Published: 10/4/2005
I have just heard from one of the systems seminar participants (“seminarians” would save a word; alas…) that there is some consensus that the readings for this week are “on” del.icio.us. In fact, they probably are, but they haven’t been tagged in a way that is immediately obvious, and no one in the class has […]
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