Tag Archives: MITIA

My Teaching Blogs

By alex | Published: 10/22/2004
OK, not really mine, since we largely co-create learning blogs, but here are some examples: (2001ish) I originally put together some scripts to blog in 1999, blithely unaware of what a blog was, to use in an undergraduate class. I wanted two things that discussion boards were not giving me: unstructured discussion and a clear […]
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Spam Floods

By alex | Published: 10/22/2004
Several of you have emailed me now noting that there has been an influx of spam on WordPress blogs lately. In the last week, I’ve gotten more than 30, which is much more than the usual (2 or 3 a week). So, what to do. First, you can always delete any comment simply by clicking […]
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RSS: absolute beginners

By alex | Published: 10/18/2004
Bowie’s Absolute Beginners has just started playing, and it seems somehow synchronous. Today I want briefly to talk about RSS and the semantic web. For those of you in the MITIA class, you probably want to read over this before doing the assignment below, just to get an idea of what’s going on. I’ve nothing […]
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MITIA Assignment: Bloglines

By alex | Published: 10/18/2004
Deadline: October 26 This assignment is going to take some teamwork among your fellow bloggers, and consists of two parts. First Part One of you (likely the “squad leader”) should go to Bloglines and set up a new account (click “sign up for free”). I would suggest you name it with the same name as […]
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