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The experimental blog – do they like it?
So, my lovely (!) year 10 boys have completed their Media Studies GCSE and we just have to await the results. Did they use the blog’s pages to help them prepare? Yes. The exam was taken on 15th and...
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I’ve gotten a vodpod now!
This web 2.0 world has all sorts of wonders waiting to be discovered. Playing with my widgets at the weekend I discovered I could insert a vodpod ! Basically, it’s a means of managing your favourite...
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Does Web 2.0 affect your brain?
Help! I think exploring Web 2.0 is truning me in to a geek… Look what I’ve found in YouTube. It’s an R2D2 DVD player/projector. Really. And the remote control is the Millenium Falcon. How geeky is...
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Forays into social cyberspace
I’m one of those sad people who hoards interesting looking newspaper articles in piles on my study floor – how terribly old fashioned! The upshot is that I still have the original Guardian feature “Are...
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Time spent blogging is less time spent jogging…
Q. Why would you continue to blog in the future? A. For pleasure and as a means of motivating me to do more diverse reading. I have thoroughly enjoyed my first experience of blogging. No blogging burn...
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Information, tagging and the “F” word
There’s a word that’s been bugging me since I first read it: folksonomy. I mean, what kind of a word is that? It triggers images of scientists stydying folk dancers in hand knitted sweaters or...
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They used it
Just a quick update on the other blog. Definitely used by my AS level students. Over the weekend before their exams, there were 55 views on the Saturday and 147 views on the Sunday. None came from...
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I don’t want to be a “pancake person”
What is the Internet doing to our brains? Specifically, what’s it doing to the way we read? Is the constant surfing, skim reading and mining for information diminishing our concentration span? Is it...
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OMG, it’s Blogworld Las Vegas…
Spare us. An exhibition dedicated to blogging and new media in the capital of glitz and hype, Las Vegas. It sounds like my idea of hell. “The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and...
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Blargon strikes again: blogterviews
Today I found another bit of blargon spawned by the blogosphere: blogterview. Any guesses? A blogterview is an interview conducted by e-mail for the purpose of inclusion in a blog. Simple idea, highly...
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