Arrived in Singapore last night for a week of workshops. I am staying at Nanyang Technological University.
Scenery at Nanyang Technological University
Today I shall be going across to St Joseph’s Institution [wikipedia entry] to share some ideas with a number of teachers regarding blogging and other read~write tools. It will be a busy workshop. Too much to do but I am sure we will all get there. I have uploaded some resources for the participants here.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Hi John
Hope you have an excellent time in Singapore. Your Show and Share page is absolutely excellent — thinking I will refer to it in my own presentation next week. I was wondering if you are okay with me linking to your Edublogs How To Document from The Getting Started With Edublogs page of The Edublogger? Also pondering if I do that whether its better to have it as a PDF and if so are you happy for me to convert to a PDF?
July 11th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Ah, nice. SJI’s my alma mater. Hope that the teachers pick up lots of useful tech tips from you!
July 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Hi Sue and Kenneth,
Sue: Thank you. Flatterd. ^_^ Please feel free to link to the Show and Share page. It will be updated a little over this weekend as I prepare for this week’s workshops. I will be updating the eduBlogs document as well ~ improvements. It may be just a little out of date. Please feel free to link to the word dcoument and the newly created pdf of the same document. I created the pdf for you. Hope this helps. When I update the documents I shall drop you a line.
I will be adding documents for Diigo, Dapper and others over the next few days.
The first workshop is over and I can relax a little now. The first one takes me across that threshold that I find hard to describe and the rest just flow. We had some free time at the end and the participants played with Compfight, Plurk, Posterous and Twitter.
Kenneth: I was wondering if any of you guys were ex SJI boys. In fact, during lunch I am sure I saw a miniature version of Siva. I wanted to play football with him and the rest of the boys. He must have been about Sec 4. Thanks for the tweet too Kenneth.
Cheers, John
July 13th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Thanks John. I’ve now added your manual to the Getting Started with Edublogs page. At the moment I’m linking to the PDF document. I have conflicting thoughts relating to the Word Document — its good in that it gives people the opportunity to make slight changes to the document to fit a workshop that they might be running but on the downside I feel it isn’t quite right if they then pass it off as their own work. Perhaps a solution would be to add a creative commons license to the Word Document and say that you are happy for people to adapt provided they attribute you as the original source?
I will also definitely be sharing your resource page on Friday when I do my presentation because it has so many excellent links.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Hi Sue, You are welcome. I think that your idea re a Creative Commons Licence is a good. I have been gradually placing a CC link on all my pages. Gradually. ^_^
I shall be improving that specific web page this week as well.
Best wishes and all the best for Friday, John.