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Sounds good; from what I've re

2007-09-21T17:59:20.888+02:00

Sounds good; from what I've read, though, I won't have to abandon my categories - I like having them. I agree tags is a good step forward, and something that many want; I'm just not one of them, so I'll be pleased for everyone else if tags are there, but sad for me if I lose my categories!

Hmm... I know what you mean ab

2007-09-19T20:27:54.272+02:00

Hmm... I know what you mean about the usefulness; however, I guess that as with so many things, people like their own version of something, no matter how many resources are already out there... However, I'd slightly misread your post & thought it was a "How to wiki" - i.e. how to use a wiki, so I was interested, as I was at a presentation a couple of weeks ago at ALT-C ( http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/timetable/abstract.php?abstract_id=1220 ) where it was very much highlighted that students didn't have difficulties with wiki software - they did find it very difficult to work collaboratively on it; most of them chosing to take the model of one student working on each page, rather than all of them sharing it. I have seen exactly the same thing myself & have been trying to find some good resources to help me encourage the students to use a wiki as it should be used. I was hoping you'd found it ...

I'm finding this fascinating -

2007-06-28T13:23:10.492+02:00

I'm finding this fascinating - some people are suggesting having both - which I'd also support. I can't see that Gmail would stop the option to tag, but I would find it useful to be able to put things in folders too. That's why I like Thunderbird - I can have folders, but I can also have virtual folders - which are rather like tags, as something can be in many folders at the same time - but, I can also have the equivalent of Misc - which I can only create in Gmail by actively tagging things - whereas with Thunderbird, once something is in a folder, I can just see the remainder in the inbox. For me, IF Gmail were to introduce an easy way to tag things that had no other tag automatically (if you want it), then it would be useful. Alternatively, if it had folders, then I could see what's not in a particular category & find it quickly. Yes, tagging is useful - most of the time, but there are things that it doesn't quite work for (especially when you're trying to set up filters to auto-tag/ auto archive things), and then I'd like something that addresses that problem.

Like Duncan, I use a mix of do

2007-06-27T10:17:36.765+02:00

Like Duncan, I use a mix of downloading to Thunderbird and reading online. I find the conversations both a curse and a blessing! As I tend to use Gmail for mailists, it means that threads I'm not interested in can easily be ignored. On the other hand, as some people get their lists as digests, it can mean that there is more than one conversation for the same thing, so I can't always tell the order that they arrived in. I also don't think that I'm very effective with tagging, I tend to have just a few tags, so I essentially treat them as folders. What *I'd* really, like, though, would be a way to create a label for all those messages that don't have another label! I can do a certain extent by filtering, but I have to remember that each time I add an extra filter/label, I have to remember to add the "AND NOT" version of it to my "Misc" filter/label. An automatic way of doing that would be of real use to me!

You cited that study showing:

2007-05-14T16:36:57.156+02:00

You cited that study showing: "68 per cent reporting that they used instant messaging. Forty-three per cent reported surfing the Internet, " ... I wonder if they also looked at the content of the IMs/ Surfing. Were they actually just IMing their friends and/ or using the Internet to get further clarification when they didn't understand the lecturer ... in the way that in the past they'd have whispered to the person next to them "what did that mean?"

Hi I have installed the plugin

2007-04-26T13:38:27.032+02:00

Hi I have installed the plugin, but I have got an error. As soon as I tried to activate it, I got "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: set_include_path() in /home/sites/site4/users/duke-wie/web/blog/wp-content/plugins/wpopenid/openid-registration.php on line 919" Looking at the blog, it had the OpenID logo by the login area, but when I tried to enter one, it crashed with the same error. I've got WordPress 2.0.10. I've fogotten what the php version is, but I know that it's the one that's not quite enough to allow us to use WP 2.1 (? php v 3???)

I've just had a quick look at

2007-03-21T20:11:03.735+01:00

I've just had a quick look at your results - some things I've found interesting (such as the fact that post-docs were the most likely to be using Wikipedia!) I do have a few questions - in particular about services that you've not listed. For example, you'd got YouTube but not Google Video (I've personally found that the educational range at Google is better, or at least easier to find), you've also got MySpace but not Live Journal (or Elgg). Did you give people the option to add extra systems - either for the categories you had (Social networking) or for others (e.g. Gliffy for creating diagrams?) It's useful to have this data though, as I've found that I have to get most of the data about what people are using from Pew Internet & that's US based.

David said: This should be

2007-01-18T17:31:30.311+01:00
David said: This should be required reading for all high school English teachers who have kids write for the refrigerator. I'd add to that anyone teaching - at any level. The list that you've given, Anne, is so applicable to any age of student - from Kindergarten to Post Graduate. The points that I found particularly relevant for the teaching that I'm doing were: Blogs help learners to see knowledge as interconnected as opposed to a set of discrete facts. Blogs foster ownership and choice. They help lead us away from students trying to find what the teacher wants in terms of an answer.