This post is being written in the hopes of inspiring some discussion around the role of blogs in education – and specifically the focal point around which they are designed.
Background
At some point in the next 6 months we will be starting to investigate ways to capitalise on Blackboard’s capacity to support 3rd party plugins.  While I certainly have my views on LMS’s – and Blackboard and WebCT in particular – this is what has been handed down to us (and me) to investigate; and investigate I shall.
Presently Moodle is being …

As is occassionally the case, I’ve received two inquiries in the last two days into the prospect of renting of advertising space on this blog. After a very healthy discussion on Twitter as to the pro’s and con’s of it all I’ve reaffirmed the conclusion that this blog shall remain ad-free.
My logic on this boils down to a matter of ethics and clarity of purpose.
In terms of ethics I refer to the notion that a certain percentage of my blogging occurs at work, covering what I consider to be …

Please Note: This post relates to an Edublogs outage that took place in 2008, not the one from December 2009.
The last 24 hours have not been kind to Edublogs.org. James Farmer has indicated that over a period of 4 to 6 hours “a bug between the new forums features and caching caused quite a few blogs to time-out.”  This prevented some users from viewing their blogs.
[NB: My initial introduction indicated the outage lasted 24 hours.  Farmer has since clarified this is not the case.  Apologies for the misprint.]
This is …