Salvör Gissurardóttir
Icelandic edublog
I am importing my eduspaces.org blog into edublogs.org. First I tried to import the eduspaces blog into another elgg site but that was not working so I imported the rss file for my blog that I could download from eduspaces to edublogs. The only problem is that most of the time I linke to videos etc. and Wordpress and Elgg do not do that in same way.
I wonde why eduspaces is closing. Maybe it is because the site has changed into beeing a rss feeder, I scanned throught the most recent blogs and most of them where from other sites. Some were blatant advertisments such as these two fake (I guess?) persons. This is spam:
http://eduspaces.net/jgates513/weblog/235248.html
http://eduspaces.net/jamesg/weblog/235247.html
Maybe this kind of rss feeding machine was causing some copywright problems and the site owners feared legal battle.
This week I have been trying out Operator11.com with my students. Several of the students have video cameras and have managed to upload videos so I can switch between students in the meetings and they can talk or show their videos.
 It is good to be able to add pages in Elgg. That was one of the things I missed. Another thing is that it would be better if you could have a password on blog posts. The staff in my university want students to keep a learning journal documenting study visits etc. This information should be kept private but the instructors have to view it in the end of the term. This could also be solved be students able to send files from elgg as submissions to blackboard or moodle.
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- Why not have students create a ‘group’ with themselves and the instructor in it (under Your Network : Access Controls)? Then assign the learning journal blog post to this group. That way, only the student plus the instructor can read it. Then at the end of the semester, have your students put together their learning journal blog postings into a Presentation where they and their instructor can comment upon what they’ve written. The Presentation plugin is really very powerful for this kind of reflective writing. When it’s all put together in the Presentation the learning journal can become a coherent stream rather than a loose collection of disparate files.
This sounds like an exciting project!
Mark Pearson on Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 16:12 UTC # | Delete
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My sister gave birth to a baby girl on May 18th. The little one was in intensive care the first week and here is a picture of her six days old. Today she will travel to a remote village in Western fjords in Iceland, she will live on a farm. Her father is a sheep farmer and Avalanche research worker. Several villages in this area has been destroyed be avalanches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolungarv%C3%ADk
This is considered the most dangerous area in Iceland to live in. The landscape is arctic and the West fjords are the most remote areas in Iceland. The small fishing villages are loosing more people every year because the fishing quotas has been sold away and there is no work left.
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I will also try to tag this blog with test, firefox
hmmm... I can not find how I can use tagging, I can however put blog into categories such as wordpress categories.
Technorati Tags: test, firefox
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Last week I read in the elgg blog of my student that he had been listening to the news on radio and it was about debate in the Icelandic parliament. One of the senators ended his speech be citing me and quoting one paragraph from my blog salvor.blog.is.
I am amused that blogging is now such a hype in Iceland that both that blogs are cited in the parliament.
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http://skolastarf.blogspot.com/2006/10/ljsmyndasaga-photoshowcom.html
English: Here is a test of another easy to use photoshow site. This is the easiest I have tried sofar. I did not have to sign up, I uploaded three images and choose a background music and how title would appear.
Icelandic: Mjög einfalt er að nota photoshow.com til að búa til ljósmyndasögu. Ég hlóð inn þremur myndum, valdi bakgrunnstónlist og hvernig titillinn birtist og hvað stór þar.]]>
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The Future of White Boys Clubs, originally uploaded by factoryjoe.
Tnis picture of the speakers at "The Future of Web Apps -
Two-day conference in September 2006 focusing on the development technology you'll be using tomorrow" is visual expression of whose voices are heard and whose voices are silenced in the brave new world of technological determinism.
via Podonomics http://podonomics.com/im-the-nutella-for-technologys-white-br and Chris Messina http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/15/the-future-of-white-boy
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09-26-06_1631, originally uploaded by pflocal.
Funny Flickr pool about the messiest computer setup. Strange looking at these photos and wondering that maybe I am too tidy... I better start having my desk more messy. My desktop is always very messy though.
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