Tweetwasters. Bit of a laugh… but hey, that’s what it’s supposed to be.

Just a short one today about another new “toy” I found.  It’s called Tweetwasters and basically it uses the number of tweets you have made to estimate the amount of time you have spent on Twitter. It basically assumes that each tweet you’ve contributed to the Twitterverse takes 30 seconds to write, and that however [...]

A crisis of blogging confidence

Today I find myself in a predicament of sorts.  After all sorts of couragous inspiring words to myself I simply cannot bring myself to tell my professional eLearning counterparts about my blog.  I simply do not have the guts to hop onto Twitter and say “check out my new post about blah and blah” like [...]

Twitter as a virtual water cooler

A new (for me anyways) tool floated my way through the Twitterverse this morning called TweetStats which analyses your Twitter actions by frequency of posting, time of action and key words.
Wat does it tell me about me? (there’s that narcissism again) From these statistics I can conclude the following about my Twitter behaviour:

Being most active when I get into work [...]

“Some students are just not cut out for learning”

Earlier this year I was researching for an assignment on Generation Y and I came across Mike Wesch’s (US Professor of the year) work for the first time.  The assignment’s already been handed in and the semester finished but there’s still a quote from one of Wesch’s papers Anti Teaching: Confronting the crisis of significance that sticks [...]

Why do people spend more time on MySpace than Facebook?

A short observation for my Sunday musing. I was telling one of my friends who lives outside the city casually last night that people tend to stay on Facebook roughly half as long as MySpace, so although Myspace cannot compete with Facebook’s user growth once people are on there they stay for longer. To [...]

The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work

I normally don’t post on a weekend, but as part of NaBloPoMo here I am, on a Saturday afternoon typing away. Considering my weekend status, I thought I’d share something really neat I found in slideshare for my post today. It’s called the Gen Y guide to web 2.0 at work and I think [...]

Live Blogging… I like it

Today I attended a conference from my office, or at least it felt like it thanks to the efforts of some serious live blogging at ConVerge 2008.  Prior to this my personal experience with live blogging was reading about it and watching someone do it at another conference. I’d never before experienced it as a [...]

I think I’m addicted to the internet…

I may possibly be addicted to the internet. I’ve always been a heavy user. I’d go to work, come home and play around a little before cooking and doing something else that I can no longer remember. It’s a distant memory now. Blurred by the abuse to my eyesight, harm to my posture, neglect of [...]

Could Moodle be the answer to the question?

So it appears our LMS choice has been narrowed down to Moodle, which would be hosted by an external company that specialises in hosting Moodle and another open source platform for corporate clients.  I am quite fond of Moodle because of its open source nature – being built for a community by a community around educational prinicples [...]

NaBloPoMo meets netvibes

I have made one achievement today beyond cleaning a wardrobe before coming to work – I created a public profile on netvibes to follow December’s NaBloPoMo posts so I can see people’s public updates in one place, rather than having to flit from blog to blog.
Before I continue I’d better explain what netvibes actually is…  Netvibes is site you can [...]