cerebral odd jobs

from BoingBoing.com Creative Commons for education
Cory Doctorow: Today Creative Commons announced ccLearn, a new division devoted to promoting the use of freely copyable materials for classrooms and education.
Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.
* With legal barriers, we advocate [...]

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A new on-line magazine has been launched.
Today is the official birth date of the Edublogs Magazine. It’s been almost a year from the idea-dancing-around-our-head stage, trying to come up with a way to create an umbrella blog that would bring together the exciting Edublogs community.
We wanted to feature bloggers and news from within the Edublogs [...]

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From the URL http://edublogs.org/ you will see the following.
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Note that this will only work for edublogs.org users. It will take you to your main blog, not any other but from there you can switch.
Uniblogs.org eslblogs.org and learnerblogs.org need to click on “students login here” (see mouse arrow in image) to be directed here, [...]

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I urge everyone new to blogging to start with the analogue blog (analog blogue?) and map out what you want to do, who’s the audience, how much work do you want to exert, etc.
Scot’s Newsletter makes a good point.
3. Don’t unsubscribe because you’re going to use the RSS feed instead. The SFNL RSS feed is [...]

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Paul Hamilton has a list of useful tools, including a link to edublogging tutorials
The bookmarks below were generated using the GreaseMonkey script from Social Bookmarking Helper 4 Wordpress.Com – A Greasemonkey Userscript July 7th, 2007 — Satya Narayan The bookmarks generated at other posts come from a modified bookmarklet from http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/social-linking/
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Over at http://edublogs.org/forums/ is an interesting set of suggestions for mobile apps, either for cell phone and other handheld devices or laptops.
Wibowo at http://nooventures.edublogs.org/ started this discussion by mentioning www.skweezer.net. He added a whole group of interesting “Dial-up and Mobility Survival Kits” that he uses. Must see his list at http://edublogs.org/forums/topic.php?id=784&replies=5#post-3762
Skweezer [...]

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