Archive for the ‘blogging’ Category

Coming Back to the Flock

Posted on December 1st, 2007 by Karl Richter
Filed under Social Software, blogging, software | 1 Comment

I’m so impressed with Flock 1.0 that I’m going to stop using Firefox for the next week.  I really liked the early versions I used, and it’s come a long way since.  Hopefully the occasional problems I ran into in the past are gone in this version. 
I may even put up with some of [...]

Netvibes & Twitter

Posted on September 13th, 2007 by Karl Richter
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I’ve become a big fan of netvibes. It’s a site similar to iGoogle, but has more types of widgets on it. I set it up about a month ago and am slowly finding more and more reasons to like it. It works as the hub for all my net services, then I’ve got other tabs [...]

Today’s Kickoff Session

Posted on July 28th, 2007 by Karl Richter
Filed under EDTEC, Wiki, blogging | No Comments

Today was my first day with the online students. My follow-up post to the class blog has an archive of the session, and my presentation slides.
I’ll be writing daily posts on that site from now until Aug 11. We’ll get to cover RSS, and folksonomies. We’re working on a wiki handbook [...]

Teaching Online

Posted on July 7th, 2007 by Karl Richter
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In a few weeks I’ll be teaching a class on Collaborative Learning with Blogs and Wikis. I was originally expecting to teach on campus and be joined by the online students in the program, however, the game plan has changed. The entire class will be available online. I’ll be teaching from home. [...]

Blog School

Posted on May 9th, 2007 by Karl Richter
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I’ll be teaching a class this summer on Blogs and Wikis. This is a course that was originally taught last semester by Bernie Dodge. I’ll be continuing the wiki handbook that he set up for last semester’s offering and running my own install of a wordpress blog for the class.
The course [...]

Elgg-perimenting with another tool

Posted on April 20th, 2007 by Karl Richter
Filed under EDTEC, Moodle, blogging, opensource | 1 Comment

I’m working on creating an online language learning community. I’d love to build the environment from scratch, but my time is as limited as my skills. I’m looking through the open source community for a platform that will suit my needs.
My latest tool is Elgg, a tool that’s similar to moodle, in that [...]