Andy Pulman Edublog

To start with I’m delving into the origins of edublogging  - for the purposes of our research project - and so far my searches give lots of useful information but don’t seem to be able to nail relevant dates or persons (for example the wikipedia entry on this is brief!).

So to start with I’ve emailed James Farmer today and asked for his take. Please feel free to add your comments/thoughts/links and Season’s Greetings to all edubloggers!

Stephen O’Hear wrote in the Education Guardian (Oct 4) about Podcasting in Scotland. Radio-style programmes, broadcast on the internet, are giving youngsters in East Lothian the opportunity to work on exciting, meaningful projects that help to improve their technical literacy…..

Read the article

Jeff Jarvis wrote his Guardian column (Nov 28) about Annik Rubens (aka Larissa Vassilian), the podcaster behind Schlaflos in München and Filme und So,

All the details on his blog at BuzzMachine.com

From media guardian looking at the battles between the US news media and bloggers…..

Monday November 28, 2005 - The Guardian

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More news on the response of Wikipedia to recent problems from Media Guardian….

Wikipedia to tighten editorial process

The Guardian has a nice feature on the recent problems affecting the wikipedia ethos - “log on and join in, but beware the web cults” with the author suggesting that “Wikipedia, and so many other online activities, show all the outward characteristics of a cult”

This focuses on

The Adam Curry entry on podcasting
Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki

The false accusation of someone regarding the assassination of John F Kennedy as a joke Wikipedia Hoaxer Apologizes for Fake Post

The false accusation regarding the Norwegian pm
What is it with Wikipedia?

All in all a bad week for Wikipedia ! but some interesting questions raised….

So what is a Wiki? The best place to start to answer this is the Wikipedia definition

The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is the parent organization of Wikipedia.

MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is a feature-rich wiki implementation written primarily for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects, but can also be used by other wikis.

Within this category I will be looking at the use of wikis within education and whether they might be of any use within IHCS.

Within this category I will be detailing blogging developments within the Institute of Health & Community Studies (IHCS) distance learning units. IHCS provides programmes in three main areas: nursing, midwifery and social & community studies. Postgraduate and professional study and research is offered across a range of inter-disciplinary practice-based themes. IHCS is one of the academic schools of Bournemouth University.

IHCS Web Site : http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/
IHCS E-Learning : http://ihcs4u.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebl/ebl.asp