Live Blogging at WordCamp, Toronto, ’08

Rannie Turingan is presenting on the gallery on WordPress. He has created his photo portfolio with this.

Clear & easy-to-understand – excellent intro to WP

WordCamp Toronto ’08

I’ve been using Twitter for live blogging but am moving to my own blog.

Joseph Thornley inviting audience to describe their plugins, sites, etc. People giving their site URLs & Thornley showing them to us.Here’s few –

Plugin – on open id

Matt Mallenweg – State of the Word

Lots of upgrades – open source drives it. (Shouldn’t take more than 2 minutes)

WordPress.org is exploding – 2 million in 07 to 11 million this year

WordPress.com also

Spammers use social engineering >> compliments used to get traction

WordCamps all over the world – local, small but many, local culture in speakers & environments

New Features

iPhone – WordPress – lots of installs

Justin McFarland’s

A truly supportive blog for teachers and others. Excellent explanations of how use use the web. This is, in my opinion, what all educators should be learning from and offering back to their fellow teachers and their students!

tags: howto, web2.0, webapps, blogging, wordpress, wp, edublogs

Blogs and educating the eflective practitioner

Interesting Slideshare presentation on the importance of blogging as part of reflective practice. I really like the Harry Potter quote near the end.

tags: reflective_practice, blogging

100+ learning professsionals to follow on Twitter

I made Jane Hart’s list of “100+ (E-)Learning Professionals to follow on Twitter” and I’ve had a sudden increase in Followers. Itereting how the web works.

tags: JaneHart, twitter, elearning

12 Step Plan to getting engaged with social learning

Want to know more about social learning, or set up a course in it? Jane Hart has a plan. via Tony Karrer on Twitter

tags: Social_learning, web2.0, web-literacy, webapps

Free – Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals : eLearning Technology

Want to learn more about web 2.0 applications? I highly recommend this multi-level course – I’ve followed the leaders’s blogs for years. High value.

tags: elearning, web2.0, web-literacy