Writing
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Best 404 Evah
There’s something of an art to a proper 404 page. You want to let the user know that she’s taken a bad step, and you want to help her find the correct path…
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Eight Years Ago Today
I began this blog as a way to learn about blogs and blogging for instruction and scholarly interaction and outreach. My first post is here, on blogging and what it is and what…
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On The Use of Sources, Citations, and Links
As educators, we spend a great deal of time trying to teach students how to research, how to use sources, and, perhaps most importantly of all, how to tell a good source from…
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Yog on Online Moderation
James D. Macdonald, SF author and exceedingly experienced online moderator (remember Yog Sysop? That’s him) offers some rules for moderation under the heading: Here’s what moderators need to know: a) Sure, there’s freedom…
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Blogging as Conversation
Tor, my favorite fantasy/sf publisher, has just gone public with their new Web site, one that has been re-designed with community engagement with content as a core principle. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, an editor…
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How do we find excellent online teachers?
I’ve copied the following, with permission, from a post on an online forum. The original poster is a professional educator and adminstrator in a graduate program which relies on online instruction. I think…
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Hello World . . . Again
Yes, I’ve changed blogging tools. Again. I began this blog in January of 2002, using Radio Userland; I eventually moved to MovableType, and now, I’m using WordPress. I’ve also changed the location; I…
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Google Pages
Google has a beta version of their new Web page creation tool, Google Pages. I gave it a look last Thursday and Friday. By Friday Google turned off new accounts temporarily; nonetheless, here…
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On “Serious” Blogging
New Kid on the Hallway drew my attention to this article in Inside Higher Ed by Jeff Rice. Rice has two central points, I think, in his initial article. I say “I think”…
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Weblog Usability
Jakob Nielsen posted an article on the top ten web log design flaws. Most of his suggestions were things I’ve been doing from the start, but two of them were new to me.…