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Technology

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autounfocus
Bill Brandon
Blog.IT
Brooklyn BloggEd
cogdogblog
Collaborative Learning
Dale Pike
David Davies
Disruptive Technology
EdBlogger Praxis
EduResources
EdTechPost
EduBlog Insights
Edu-blog News
elearningpost
elearnspace
Headshift Moments
HomoLudens
Jim Flowers
Learning Circuits
Many 2 Many
Mark Roseman
Online Learning
open-education
Seblogging
Stephen Downes
teachnology
Ten Reasons Why
Tim Lauer
SiT
Weblogg-ed
X-Plana

Internet

A Networked World
headshift moments
mamamusings
tmt, tlt
McGee's Musings
Micah Alpern
Microdoc News
Powazek
Scripting News

Other

Connectivity
Library Stuff
Mathemagenic
Open Access News
Seb's Open Research
The Shifted Librarian
Unbound Spiral


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Thursday, October 02, 2003

Things I could add or change... any thoughts? OK, so in terms of this site I'm thinking about: Whether the font is too small, should I change it? Putting a graphic at the top (I've got some fun ideas and it's only 14k so far)? Introducing archives by month? Introducing a 'recent posts' thing? Introducing a 'what rss feeds I subscribe to thing'? Having one last crack at getting bloglet to work (I want a box for people to be able to enter email addys but bloglet just doesn't want to work... any suggestions?) Introducing a kinda 'story' function a la Manila for major ongoing stuff, conference blogging etc. What have I dumped: Dumped blogrolling as I want to have control over my links (well, I want to learn how to get control ;o) Dumped blogshares... cos I'm bored now... anyone want $4m blogshare $s Dumper the auto-radio RSS subscribe thing (cos it never works for me on other peoples blogs) So, whaddya reckon? 3:50:32 PM    comments   trackback

incorporated subversion   So, what’s with calling this 'incorporated subversion' then?   Well, first up, 'James Farmer’s Radio Weblog' just 'aint that catchy ;o) and a fair bit more importantly I wanted a name that reflected me and my feelings.   So I, ahem, nicked it from David Squires' 1999 article ‘Educational Software and Learning: Subversive use and Volatile Design’ (.pdf).   Classy eh!   More seriously though I have really found Squires thoughts to be both reflective of what I’ve always believed and guiding in terms of helping me realize what I actually mean. He talks about successful design [and by implication facilitating learning as that which gives learners 'opportunities to work in environments which allow for idiosyncratic exploration and expression' and I could hardly agree more.   'Rather than design with constraint in mind, design with freedom and flexibility in mind… this emphasises the active and purposeful role of learners in configuring learning environments to resonate with their own needs, echoing the notions of learning with technology through 'mindful engagement''   More and more around me design is becoming a 10-step process, learning throughout education is being driven to pale rigidity and online, in particular, teachers and learners are suffocated by design and environments which allow very little or no room for or encouragement in exploration or expression.   As Hans Siggaard Jensen says in his manifesto: 'The competent person is a person who can transform information through judgment into knowledge.'   Incorporating subversion to me is pretty simple, allow people to subvert the system to suit themselves. Allow people to say what they really mean to whomsoever they want to say it. Have some faith in people and provide them with a platform and place from where to go…   Or something like that, we’ll see where it gets us… 3:27:53 PM    comments   trackback

Ta da... After learning how to use Dreamweaver solely to do this, messing about for weeks and banging my head against many many many virtual walls here's 1.0 of my new weblog setup. Check out the new name, next post explains why. 3:23:42 PM    comments   trackback

Nothing to do with the great civil rights leader, James Farmer, but here are some links that are:

Greensboro sit-ins
Reflections
Family (with pictures)


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