Yesterday’s workshop went well, thanks to all the support rendered by fellow colleagues, and also not to forget the teachers participants. Have yet to look through the feedback forms, but do hope that teachers have some useful takeaways on this first morning of the one week break.
Thanks for all the time taken to fill up the yellow activity sheet. Will be posting the findings to this blog after collation. As promised, the URLs to the slide and handouts:
1. Presetation slides by Edublog.NET (ppt)
2. Blogger.com HOWTO (zip)
3. Bloglines.com HOWTO (zip)
4. SingTel Moblog.com Intro and Guide (pdf)
If you would like to setup your home computer systems with the free built-in WinXP Chinese Language Input Method Editor, you may grab the user guide here.
In the meantime, if you would like to seek support in implementation of blogs in your classroom or your school, feel free to drop us an email at hpinit2@edublog.net
Cheers!
In preparation … 4th Edublog Workshop
Looking back, havent been posting for the past almost 1 week, well, have been busy with the many meetings, but most importantly, the upcoming 4th Edublog Workshop cum 10th TecXplorers Gathering.
Our host this time will be Zhonghua Sec located in Serangoon and the school has a very nice and conducive environment for our workshop/gathering. Accounting the things that are needed in the mind… hmm…almost ready…except one last activity sheet…
Ok, looking forward to meeting so many teachers (abt 80 expected/so far), and onwards to another round of blogvangelism!
Edublog Sharing at CLIT-Link session
I had the opportunity to share with fellow CL teachers at Vista Lab (Lvl 18) about edublogs and our HPINIT experiment. It was a very quick sharing, no slides prepared 😛
Some concerns were raised and addressed. These included HanyuPinyin input issue and monitoring issue.
Later, 9 of the teachers demonstrated very keen interest and we came down to 15-01 for another round of discussion. Teachers exchanged some ideas on how blogs can possibly be used and they would have been given a blogger.com walkthru if the network was up.
Anyway, the teachers will be going back to try out blogger.com sign-up on their own and we’ll plan on our next step of support.
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read … reading … read … 050301
Finished reading Audience, Structure and Authority in the Weblog Community by Cameron Marlow quite some time ago, only posting it now.
This article aims at studying the concept of authority among community of webloggers. The findings are based on hyperlinks collected by the Blogdex project. A social network analysis (Wellman 1997) is done to describe the social structure, and the two interesting measures of authority are suggested to be popularity measured by affiliation and influence measured by citation.
The social ties formed by the webloggers community are through means of blogrolls, permalinks, comments and trackbacks. Each mean represents a different type of social reference.
Main study focused on:
Blogroll implying social affiliation
Permalink implying thoughts passed from one individual to another
It is found that having a high blogroll degree rank (which indicates popularity) does not necessary translate into a high permalink degree rank (which indicates level of influence)
Good Luck and All the Best to All!
This afternoon, the long-awaited O-level results are going to be released. Wishing my students best of luck, here’s a lucky clover for all to share 🙂
