Category: 01f. Blogvangelism

Today’s the first day of the 13th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2005) and we were invited to share about our HPINIT2 journey.
I have created our presentation using CMAPTools (by IHMC) and the windows version of CMAP can be downloaded here. Download the presentation files here. I have updated the zipped CMAP package with web resources where possible to reduce download size/time. A single non-manipulatable jpeg version of the cmap is also available.
I must take this opportunity to thank Adrian Miles from Australia for spending time to repackage the video prototype 3, otherwise the sharing wouldnt have been possible. You can read more about his development ideas in the hypertext version of his Blogtalk Downunder paper entited “Media Rich versus Rich Media (or why video in a blog is not the same as a video blog)” here.
The “Weblogs in Education” video which I mentioned, featuring Will Richardson and his school & students can be downloaded from the local mirror for your viewing pleasure. There’s another video by Teachers’ TV in UK thay may also interest you.
The few user guides (HOWTOs) that may help you to start off blogging are listed here:
1. Blogger.com HOWTO
2. MSN Spaces HOWTO
3. Windows XP CL Input method editor (IME) setup guide
4. Bloglines.com (RSS) HOWTO
Hope you have found our sharing useful. Thanks for being with us this afternoon, cheers and have another 2 enjoyable days ahead!

Thank you teachers for listening to my (boring) sharing. As mentioned, the slides that I have used are available here.
The softcopy of the Weblogs in Education lit review is available in the IT Litereature Review page of ETD’s EduMall. Check out EduMall for the wealth of resources related to IT in education.
We are unable to allow hands-on during the sharing, and creating a blog is really fast and easy on a usual day. If you would like to this moment create your own blog, first grab this Blogger.com user guide (~4.4MB) (which I have created for use during my workshops). Next, surf to Blogger.com and within 5-10 minutes, you will be a member of the blogger’s community. Yup, congratulations in advance 🙂
Hope the sharing has triggered your thoughts and you will consider to use blogs in your teaching and learning. Cheers!

It’s now break time 🙂 Just create a quick posting, will be updating it later with soft copies of the documents. Thank you teachers for your kind attention and your time too. Hope you have learnt something useful 🙂
— updated 29/8/05 —
As mentioned, here’s the soft copies of the various files that you may be interested in:
1. Presentation slides
2. Blogger.com HOWTO Version 2 (various download format/size to choose from)
3. Bloglines.com HOWTO
4. MSN Spaces HOWTO
and to include a few pictures that “captures” the day in history :



Thank you teachers for your very encouraging comments. Thank you Cikgu Naim for organising the workshop, and not to forget, many thanks to Sok Foon for assisting during the hands-on 🙂
(p.s. 1 hour has to be subtracted for the time of the comments to reflect the corrent time of commenting)

We are now at Umar Pulavar Tamil Language Center. Alli had just given the teachers an overview of the TLIT group that she’s facilitating. We are now taking a short break, and up right next will be the intro to edublogs. Yeh, can’t wait to share the very little that I know 🙂


Will be updating this post with softcopies of the slides and handouts later 🙂
Updates on 17th Aug:



Thank you fellow teachers for your encouraging feedback. As mentioned, please find below the softcopies of the presentation slides and the Blogger.com user guide. Welcome once again to the world of edublogging, cheers!
1. Presentation Slides
2. Blogger.com HOWTO Ver 1.0

the workshop was completed. thanks to jeffery for helping out during the hands on.
here’s the soft copies of the slides/handouts for the day, pls feel free to download, print and/or modify for use.
1. Presentation slides (ppt)
2. Blogger.com HOWTO
3. Bloglines.com HOWTO