Comments on: Who is Shane? http://shanetechteach.edublogs.org A ShaneTechTeach blog. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:46:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Harvey http://shanetechteach.edublogs.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Chris Harvey Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:26:54 +0000 #comment-36 The terms free software and open source are usually interchangeable. You would have to read the free software definition to really understand what I mean. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Its worth checking out. Thanks for blogging, I enjoy reading your work. The terms free software and open source are usually interchangeable. You would have to read the free software definition to really understand what I mean. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Its worth checking out.

Thanks for blogging, I enjoy reading your work.

]]> By: carmel http://shanetechteach.edublogs.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-23 carmel Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:44:42 +0000 #comment-23 Hi Shane An excellent blog! (a friend sent me the link) I read with interest your post on elearning spaces and adapting them to suit Education Qld. I am also a teacher with Education Qld (Cairns School of Distance Ed) I find the whole EQ attitude and their LMS incredibly frustrating and restrictive....Blackboard is the pits and I am exploring using Edublogs for digital portfolios with my students. They will work really well I believe. Student portfolios will be hosted on Edublogs, but my thinking is that EQ does not own student work, (as they own our work) therefore, as long as I have parental permission it should be ok. Well, I hope so! The blogs on Blackboard are really not good enough for what I want to do with Years 10, 11, 12 students. I am an Accredited Facilitator for the ICT Ped licence so I really find that I am in a dilemma. (I see you have your Advanced....I got my Advanced last year. Phew!! What a lot of work that was) I have to toe the EQ line but I find that difficult at times. Students do have their own webspace on MIS though, and some of our students use it. WordPress is great, I have set up a blog on my mis webspace, using WordPress. I got my MySQL database set up, installed WordPress and it all works really well. My WordPress blog </a> My blog has just started, not nearly as developed as yours. My original plan was to use my database and have student blogs connected to my database. But I think you would have to have WordPress MU (multi user) installed. I think Edublogs is an easier option. But, if you wanted to investigate installing WordPress on your MIS webspace, I can tell you it all works very well. Keep up the great blogging. Regards Carmel Mayer Hi Shane

An excellent blog! (a friend sent me the link) I read with interest your post on elearning spaces and adapting them to suit Education Qld. I am also a teacher with Education Qld (Cairns School of Distance Ed) I find the whole EQ attitude and their LMS incredibly frustrating and restrictive….Blackboard is the pits and I am exploring using Edublogs for digital portfolios with my students. They will work really well I believe. Student portfolios will be hosted on Edublogs, but my thinking is that EQ does not own student work, (as they own our work) therefore, as long as I have parental permission it should be ok. Well, I hope so! The blogs on Blackboard are really not good enough for what I want to do with Years 10, 11, 12 students. I am an Accredited Facilitator for the ICT Ped licence so I really find that I am in a dilemma. (I see you have your Advanced….I got my Advanced last year. Phew!! What a lot of work that was) I have to toe the EQ line but I find that difficult at times. Students do have their own webspace on MIS though, and some of our students use it.

WordPress is great, I have set up a blog on my mis webspace, using WordPress. I got my MySQL database set up, installed WordPress and it all works really well. My WordPress blog My blog has just started, not nearly as developed as yours. My original plan was to use my database and have student blogs connected to my database. But I think you would have to have WordPress MU (multi user) installed. I think Edublogs is an easier option. But, if you wanted to investigate installing WordPress on your MIS webspace, I can tell you it all works very well.

Keep up the great blogging.

Regards
Carmel Mayer

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