Travel Diaries of a Web 2.0 Newbie

I think I actually experienced recently, what I had only read about previously: that with Web 2.0 you can become part of a much wider community, and are able to draw on a much larger and diverse range of opinions than those of your colleagues. I realised that I enjoy being challenged and stimulated by [...]

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Call me a pessimist, but it had to finally happen. After having had an amazingly glitch-free run using all different sorts of Web2.0 resources, I finally got frustrated during this Thing. Now that pulse rate and blood pressure are back to normal I feel able to share my feelings with the group…
Having liked the look [...]

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T.rex
Originally uploaded by damicilu

Just trying out this feature in Flickr where you can post directly to your blog from one of your images.

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I enjoyed this one – I think it appealed to the creative side of me. The biggest challenge was trying to convey meaning simply through visual images i.e. without lots of text to explain. I opted for the Bubbleshare format because the slideshow example looked very bold and uncluttered, but I may also have a [...]

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You’re right – Flickr is addictive. I started off looking for some images to do with DNA, which I’ll be teaching again soon. But then I started the lethal, “Oh, what about this?” and the “I wonder if there are any good images about this?” trains of thought and time had soon whizzed by, again.
I [...]

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I can’t actually ever remember noticing the Creative Commons logo on any of the websites I have used, but initially I was fairly depressed looking at the resources available, especially images, which I tend to use a lot. My problem is that in Biology, we tend to need images that show very specific details e.g. [...]

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I liked the CoolCat blog and found both it and the post about how she uses the Wiki in the classroom very useful. They provided a bit of structure and definition to what seemed at times to be a dauntingly large black hole: “Go – use a wiki with your students!”
I also found the Teacher’s [...]

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Why didn’t someone tell me about RSS before! It has dramatically reduced the amount of time I used to waste because I had to surf through to different sections of different papers or journals in order to have a look for any interesting articles. Now, they all come to my reader and I can have [...]

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Everyday an Open House
Now that our 5-year old has been sucked into the conveyer belt of school life, we have realised that we are both control-freak parents:
- ”What did you do at school today?”
- ”Can’t remember.” (which means, “I don’t want to talk about this just now, I want to play, stop disturbing me.”)
- ”Did [...]

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This blog is written as part of Thing 4: some of it is in note form; some of it more fluid, just depending on my mood at the time of writing.
Powerpoint Reform: a first chapter

Writing – very well written. Good to see quality doesn’t slip just because the medium changes. I find blog writings to [...]

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