Comments for Padded thoughts http://openpad.wordpress.com about open content, open research, Open University, open anything, ... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:33:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Poor neglected blog by Juliette Culver http://openpad.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/poor-neglected-blog/#comment-200 Juliette Culver Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:33:18 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-200 I suspect it's Cloudworks lacking the features that would be useful rather than your failure to use the ones that are there. Thinking about this sort of thing is next up on my list after voting/recommendations. If there are any RSS feeds that aren't there that would be useful do say as they may be quick to add in. What would you ideally like to display on your blog? Juliette I suspect it’s Cloudworks lacking the features that would be useful rather than your failure to use the ones that are there. Thinking about this sort of thing is next up on my list after voting/recommendations. If there are any RSS feeds that aren’t there that would be useful do say as they may be quick to add in.

What would you ideally like to display on your blog?

Juliette

]]> Comment on Poor neglected blog by Grainne Conole http://openpad.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/poor-neglected-blog/#comment-199 Grainne Conole Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:30:18 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-199 I think you raise some really interesting issues Patrick and getting the balance between collective involvement vs. personal blogging is tricking. Niall commented that he felt abit sad when he set up his "elearning in the cloud" cloud ie he felt he should have been posting on his blog instead. I think part of the answer will be as you say finding ways of interconnecting. Also of course cloudworks and individual blogs will have different audiences. And of course if you get lots of engagement and discussion around a cloud you create that is motivating. For me also cloudworks offers different functionality/benefits to my blog - i am finding it useful in terms of social bookmarking for example and perfer it to delicious, and I like the collective co-construction of clouds aspect. I think you raise some really interesting issues Patrick and getting the balance between collective involvement vs. personal blogging is tricking. Niall commented that he felt abit sad when he set up his “elearning in the cloud” cloud ie he felt he should have been posting on his blog instead. I think part of the answer will be as you say finding ways of interconnecting. Also of course cloudworks and individual blogs will have different audiences. And of course if you get lots of engagement and discussion around a cloud you create that is motivating. For me also cloudworks offers different functionality/benefits to my blog – i am finding it useful in terms of social bookmarking for example and perfer it to delicious, and I like the collective co-construction of clouds aspect.

]]> Comment on Poor neglected blog by Patrick http://openpad.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/poor-neglected-blog/#comment-198 Patrick Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:52:54 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-198 It could be that I am not using the features of cloudworks as well as I might - I noticed that it now provides a feed for things that I have added on the site. So what would be the best way to reflect that on something like this blog? My other thought is about actually embedding parts of cloudworks may give what I need - but that is not made particularly easy. I will try an iframe for a cloudscape inside this blog to see what happens - but I know from previous attempts that wordpress.com is not very embed friendly! It could be that I am not using the features of cloudworks as well as I might – I noticed that it now provides a feed for things that I have added on the site. So what would be the best way to reflect that on something like this blog? My other thought is about actually embedding parts of cloudworks may give what I need – but that is not made particularly easy. I will try an iframe for a cloudscape inside this blog to see what happens – but I know from previous attempts that wordpress.com is not very embed friendly!

]]> Comment on Poor neglected blog by Juliette Culver http://openpad.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/poor-neglected-blog/#comment-197 Juliette Culver Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:15:29 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-197 Would be interested if you have any thoughts on anything Cloudworks could provide (either within the site or as e.g. widgets external to the site) that would make this easier to do. Would be interested if you have any thoughts on anything Cloudworks could provide (either within the site or as e.g. widgets external to the site) that would make this easier to do.

]]> Comment on Drupal on a Mac – not quite as easy as I hoped by kimbakat http://openpad.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/drupal-on-a-mac-not-quite-as-easy-as-i-hoped/#comment-193 kimbakat Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:12 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=45#comment-193 I don't know why that can't figure out a sure-fire method to get this shit installed. I've wasted 2 days to just to figure out how and why the Install.php file does not load. Working on Day 3..I may give up on the project in about another day. Drupal has been a colossal waste of time. It is not a simple procedure. It's a shame..because they COULD make it simple. I don’t know why that can’t figure out a sure-fire method to get this shit installed. I’ve wasted 2 days to just to figure out how and why the Install.php file does not load. Working on Day 3..I may give up on the project in about another day.

Drupal has been a colossal waste of time. It is not a simple procedure. It’s a shame..because they COULD make it simple.

]]> Comment on Watch with RescueTime by Tom Jones http://openpad.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/watch-with-rescuetime/#comment-181 Tom Jones Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:07:18 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-181 Just found an alternative and I wanted to share it with you guys... FruitfulTime ProductivityMeter by www.fruitfultime.com - it's offline and freeware! Just found an alternative and I wanted to share it with you guys… FruitfulTime ProductivityMeter by http://www.fruitfultime.com – it’s offline and freeware!

]]> Comment on Future of homework with Xtranormal by Dave Stratton http://openpad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/future-of-homework-with-xtranormal/#comment-180 Dave Stratton Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:52:32 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-180 I've been using xtranormal for the last 6 weeks as the basis of a daily comedy blog. Check out any episode you like (except Christmas day, which is a music clip). Or start with this one, a fan favorite: http://deadpaninc.blogspot.com/2008/11/avian-genital-tongues.html I’ve been using xtranormal for the last 6 weeks as the basis of a daily comedy blog. Check out any episode you like (except Christmas day, which is a music clip). Or start with this one, a fan favorite: http://deadpaninc.blogspot.com/2008/11/avian-genital-tongues.html

]]> Comment on Future of homework with Xtranormal by r3becca http://openpad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/future-of-homework-with-xtranormal/#comment-179 r3becca Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:50:52 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-179 Talk about synchronicity... Here's my son's homework from last weekend http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEAe_ezul4 Closely followed by my daughter's http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsxh77mMTP8 Talk about synchronicity…

Here’s my son’s homework from last weekend
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEAe_ezul4

Closely followed by my daughter’s
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsxh77mMTP8

]]> Comment on Future of homework with Xtranormal by Patrick http://openpad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/future-of-homework-with-xtranormal/#comment-178 Patrick Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:28:43 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-178 Thanks - link fixed. Missing "0" at the end of link. Thanks – link fixed. Missing “0″ at the end of link.

]]> Comment on Future of homework with Xtranormal by Martin http://openpad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/future-of-homework-with-xtranormal/#comment-177 Martin Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:39:44 +0000 http://openpad.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-177 Link didn't work for me Patrick - just went to index page. Glad you liked it - not sure you have to use it a lot, just one of those many tools we can use. Imagine we could have courses with a different piece of media on every page, students choosing from a range to create their own assessments, etc. Imagine.... Link didn’t work for me Patrick – just went to index page.
Glad you liked it – not sure you have to use it a lot, just one of those many tools we can use. Imagine we could have courses with a different piece of media on every page, students choosing from a range to create their own assessments, etc. Imagine….

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