education & tech

James Farmer, head of edublogs.org, is happy to announce the relaunching of his website. The following is the e-mail we received just today:

"It's been a long weekend over at the Edublogs Ranch, but a throughly satisfying one, as Edublogs is now running on the very latest and greatest version of WordPress!

We've got a customizable dashboard, brand new avatar options and a brilliant new uploader (that automatically makes perfect galleries for you!)... not to mention now over 100 themes to choose from.

You can find out a whole heap more here.

And if you've lost your password or username, it's now even easier to get a new one here. (you just need to pop in the email address you're receiving this email at)

We hope you like the new features as much as we do :)"

There is a great tool which help us analyzes RSS/blog feeds. AideRSS, allows you to determine the popularity of each of your posts according to the number of comments, Diggs, Del.icio.us bookmarks, backlinks and clickthroughs. Although, as for us, one of the most useful features of AideRSS for bloggers is the ability to analyze the popularity of items in your own blog feed!

Here are our top 20 posts all times.(Thanks to bloggerbuster.com)

1. Please, your Majesty don't get angry. [link]
2. Holly Jobe: The changing expectations of learning. [Link]
3. Comics: Friends 2.0 [Link]
4. Steve Jobs: Following his Macworld watchers. [Link]
5. The future in technology is here. [Link]
6. Merry Christmas to all of you. [Link]
7. Dealing with cellphones in our classrooms. [Link]
8. Academic Social Networks, academics are wary people. [Link]
9. Why the so popular Scoble isn't getting comments on his blog as before. [Link]
10. Social filtering, the new great challenge. [Link]
11. Find out who's the one that couldn't finish college and is rich and famous![Link]
12. Firefox, downloading Free Access Plus. [Link]
13. HC: MacCain will 'Gut Obama like fish'. [Link]
14. Jump onto Technorati train. [Link]
15. Support Freddom of Speech. [Link]
16. Best Flickr Photo during 2007. [Link]
17. Edublogs.org is a great place to start a classroom blog. [Link]
18. Why Technorati ranking is also important. [Link]
19. Experiences: An online continuig education case. [Link]
20. How to cheat schools under Internet filters. [link]

Technorati: education&tech, education+tech, top20

I felt very nice after reading two posts from two fellow bloggers, Silvia who's picking one of our blogs as her favorite. Iwon't abide by rules in this Blog Day but I want to participate and let to know who are by now the blogs and people. Happy BlogDay 2007 to everyone.

Weblog-ed, Will Richardson is a professional who pursues and research the tendencies in technology applied to the classroom. He's the Learner in Chief
in topics, discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, audiocasts and other Read/Write Web related technologies in the K-12 realm.

Paul Stamatiou, he's a very young man with a tremendous potential and knowledge about technology and apple related stuff. He's a penchant for all things high-tech
as himself describes. We are subscribed to his page since the very first time we get to know him. Power to the people of Georgia Tech.

eLearnspace, is held by George Siemens and he's very passionate about learning technologies from he's also a teacher in the University of Manitoba. I'm enamored with the potential of technology to transform learning and society. And he certainly is. Every educator should be paying attention to what he has to say on a regular basis.

Hackosphere, has being blogging from a while and he's our gradfather because thanks to his deep knowledge
in Ajax and feed readers you can see a nice blog design in this blog. He has created bVibes which a prosperous feed sharing portal. Ramani will be in our sight forever.

BlogBloke, is the only way I know him because it's very hard to find out his real name. He's being creating blogs with tips and tools for the blogging community and loves to write about Blogger Tips and lately he's being thinking to switched to Wordpress(so sad, I might say). 'He was one of the earliest to make RSS feeds (by hand, not automated, mind you)' as one of another fellow blogger states.

Hope you all something special to say about your favorite blogs or bloggers. As for ourselves we want to join in the special celebration in our home city, Loxa and home country, Ecuador. Or more in Global Voices Online.

I don't understand anymore how Technorati rank aour blogs but obviously there are some diferences between what it's been done by them and the conclution of eBizMA. They (EbizMA) has a list of 25 popular blogs that differ from the top popular 100 blogs in Technorati. Is there any chance that some day our small blogs figure in these list as important as the apear to be?

Technorati Favs 1.Boingboing.net 2.Problogger.net 3.TechCrunch.com 4.LifeHacker.com 5. 43Folders.com 6. Engadget.com 7. postsecret.blogspot.com 8.doshdosh.com 9. Profilepitstop.com 10. Gizmodo.com 11. headrush.typepad.com 12. alistapart.com 13. Micropersuasion.com 14. blog.guykawasaki.com 15. googleblog.blogspot.com

eBizMBA 1. Gizmodo.com 2. TMZ.com 3. engadget.com 4. LifeHacker.com 5. HuffingtonPost 6. boingboing.net 7. PerezHilton.com 8. Gawker.com 9. kotaku.com 10. DailyKos.com 11. TechCrunch.com 12. Defamer.com 13. Wokkete.com 14. Autoblog.com 15. ARSTechnica.com

Steli Efti yesterday patronize the Edublogger Event 2007 which in all standards was a success. Someone while commenting in a fellow blog said, we don't need to dress up anymore, we have the chance to attend conferences from the commodity of your home and your computer.

Blogs can also be used for workshops. Even when we will see a hard fight for the Internet Neutrality we will keep moving forward in the educational matters.

I want to thank a old friend not because age (He still so young). Sumesh has made some tweaks for our search box and look pretty and much professional. Thanks again Sumesh not only for the public honor but for the mention. Much power to you as Steli likes to motto.

This is part of a Manifesto in favor of a new concept of education. The event can be Digged and all of you are very welcome to join us this Saturday , March 31. All Day. For those in the Eastern Time please update your schedule three plus hours need to be added to the regular times shown in this schedule.

It´s all about new & revolutionary education concepts & ideas - meet speakers and attendees in the comment box for great conversations.

The schedule is as follows:

WHEN: Saturday, 03/31/07
WHERE: Steli Efti´s Supercool Blog
WHAT: New Post and Speaker Every Half Hour
First Session: 10am - 1pm Pacific Time (GMT -7hrs)
Second Session: 2pm - 5pm Pacific Time (GMT -7hrs)

WHO:
10:00 - hj barraza on Decentralised Learning Services for Developing Countries.
10:30 - Jon Bennett on Differentiation for Dummies.
11:00 - Florence Meichel on New technology and knowledge accessibility.
11:30 - Peter Haslam on The Need for Self-Directed Learning
12:00 - Liz Strauss on The Ergonomics of You.
12:30 - Michael Beck on Long Term Memory / Human Computer Storage Techniques.

- break -

02:00 - Joshua Hwang on Zen of Studying.
02:30 - TonNet on Socialnetworking Phenomena & the Impact on Education.
03:00 - Pat Aroune on Community of practice as a model for change in today's schools.
03:30 - Steve Dembo on Is anonymity critical to the success of the edu blogosphere?
04:00 - Steli Efti on The 7 lessons we learned at school that could possibly ruin our lifes.
04:30 - Tiara Shafiq with a bonus post.
05:00 - Open discussion about education...

I am not in the list of the 100 Most Prolific Bloggers but I have the right to speak in name of our costumes and our society. Rose DesRochers has ponted it out in a situation where three high shool girls from Lewisboro, New York were suspended for using the word vagina at a public reading of the Vagina Monologue. We are pushing and asking the same as Saskboy. The challenge is every blogger to use the word 'vagina' in a blog post title! Please for those visitor coming for porno, this is not a Telus place!

At what level the Open Source had influenced on education? The answer is in this post which mentions what's going on in the MIT fields: Open source and open access resources have changed how colleges, organizations, instructors, and prospective students use software, operating systems and online documents for educational purposes. And, in most cases, each success story also has served as a springboard to create more open source projects.

Please, pass this post and help our society understand that the problem are not the words but the meaning of such words as in vagina. Open Source for this matters? No need but we still have a long way to go in education and particularly in sexual education.

Even when Blogger sucks today at least after like four times to try, I've got to publish today's post.

Ken Smith came up with this idea. Please pay attention of what your reading is and not only summarize but synthesize and generate new ideas. See for yourself what his Theory is

1) Somebody creates a new tool or technique, such as blogging. In time, 2) some people realize that it is powerful, and 3) they make it a way of life for themselves as individuals, 4) then as members of a small community. 5) As the community grows, 6) a culture is created, 7) which solidifies the power in the lives of many people, 8) even if they are still a small portion of a wider society.

You can also check and vote for few but destacated blogs, why not?. This is the Seventh Annual Weblog Awards. Please, Pinch In, before is too late!

The Thinking Blog has made a step forward with the 2000 bloggers of Tino Buntic. The new baby project as he likes to call it, is Happy Pixel Hunting, a project in progress, though. Keep visiting his blog to get the updates when the project is complete, as he promised.

You can hunt us in the position 503. Not so hard fo find it if you remember the basics of computing areas.