Blogpoly - the online board game of blogging!

BLOGPOLY

Cool cool work by Littleoslo, a anonymous & genius web artist with a great idea for putting the most important tools and features related to blogging on one slate. Ideal for having fun while learning new stuff, or memorising known stuff.

Elderbob shared this link in our Blogging workshop at Knowplace, and I cannot wait to check it out more in detail.

Working with blogs- Open Weekend at Knowplace

Hello Webheads,

if you would please join us at Knowplace this weekend and make it
become alive and active, I'm hosting a 48 hour workshop discussion
about blogging in general - and you're invited!

Working with Blogs

Welcome to an Open Weekend where we will discuss and share some easy
ways to keep a weblog, or just blogs.
Blogs can be used for promotion of your thoughts and ideas, for
professional or personal reflections, as well as for group oriented
work online. Blogs can have text, images and even voice recordings.
They're updated online, like a diary so that your last entry will come
up first. No need to download software or upload text content, as you
can just subscribe to a free blog service, such as

www.blogger.com or www.xanga.com

During this weekend, I would like to encourage anyone to report own use of blogs if you already have one, as well as starting on a self made personal blog if this is your first try.

yours,

Susanne Nyrop
(blogger since 2002)

www.xanga.com/susnyrop
worldofwebheads.blogspot.com

PS:
Knowplace is using Moodle, and if you're a new member, you'll be asked
to create an account before you can get access to the general Knowplace
site and read more about the Open Weekends, as well as other Knowplace
activities, such as week long courses related to online work and
learning from many aspects as well as longer courses developed for
Capilano College, Vancouver BC, Canada
http://www.knowplace.ca

These Open weekends are always starting on Friday evening at 17 GMT
and ends on Sunday evening at 17 GMT. During this time slot, you can
access my weekend page directly at

knowplace.ca/moodle_1.4.3/course/view.php?id=65


These hours are quite strictly administered; you will not get access to
the workshop page before and after these hours; in case you find
anything of special interest, you'll need to save that information
locally, or subscribe so that it comes to your mailbox. One problem
about working with this volunteer task from a different time zone is
that the Canadians work while I ought to be asleep, and on Saturday
European time, I'll be away with my family, celebrating birthday until
late; so just in case some of you blog savvy Webheads would jump in and
encourage the action, please do not hesitate!!!

Blog workshop in Qatar, with virtual presence

On April 30, webheads were invited to follow a workshop on Blogs moderated by Vance Stevens - that means webheads are online, with a lot of people present in a computer lab in Qatar with Flurin, their teacher. Some participants got help direct in Tapped In, and the PPT presentation with Vance's voice and webcam from Qatar, in Elluminate at Learning Times.

The first fresh baked blogs created during this session are at:
www.activstudio2.blogspot.com and www.abuyusif.blogspot.com
- and Bee Dieu from Brazil was presenting her work with student blogs at www.beeonline.blogspot.com
- Sergei Grid, Belarus and I presented our collaboration with the Mystery Guest blog with students in Minsk at www.goinupstream.blogspot.com
- Teresa d'Eca from Portugal was showing us her beginner class blog in Portugal, grade 5 students, also using voice
- Buth Alothman's blog project with university students in Kuwait was also presented alothman-b.tripod.com/162_fall04_stsblogs.htm

What's a Plog?

What's a Plog?

It is...
a page-blog (Teresa Almeida d'Eca, webheads in action, APPI conference presentation, April 05)
an open source code for creating blogs named pLog, released in a version 1.0 March 05
a password protected, personal plog® (customer service offered by Amazon)
a project blog for management of projects according to Ronald Piquepaiile's technology Trends blog, May 04),
- who is referring to an article in the CIO magazine online, May 15, 04 by Michael Shrage: The Virtues of Chitchat

a well known Danish poetry log

And then, I agree with the Reflexive-Blog a quad-error in this message quoted below from Dec 12, 04 :

Project + Blog = plog : quad error

1) project = blog = pblog
Because blog = web + log

2) plog = project + log

3) pLog

4) There are thousands of words starting by p, personal, professional and private for examples.
It’s silly to reduce a whole word to a single letter.
The more you remove letters, the less information you give.

Besides, according to Rebecca Blood, with her blogging expertise: A blog is a coffeehouse conversation in text, with references as required!

Audioblogging live from Farum, Denmark

This message was recorded on the phone by a free service called audioblogger
It was easy and fun. After opening my account, I was ready for my call (00)1-661-716-2564 (blog) - and a voice guided me through the process: first, type my local phone number given in the registration (I had to twist mine and use the two digits 45 used for international calls to Denmark before my ordinary number so I had 10 digits. This works!) Then enter your pin code - and start speaking! After this recording, press # - and your voice guide will tell you to press 1 for save, 2 for listening and 3 for delete. If you wish, you can then make yet another recording (press 1 and start talking).

Now, this was simple, right? And then, to my pleasure, when I open my Blogger account, I see my recording as a post that I can now edit and name, and it will come up directly in my Blogger blog. So, from now on, this blog is an audioblog!

Hello APPI and Teresa - an audioblog

This message is meant for people at the APPI conference in Portugal, April 21, 2005, for Teresa d'Eça's presentation about online communities of practice Also called CoPs)

I'm going to join you virtually this afternoon - but was inspired by Michael Coghlan, Adelaide, Australia, to send a voice message, just in case something went wrong!

After all, it is no secret that we're now and then struggling with technological mismatches, incomparable systems, or hitting our heads against firewalls and other communication glitches, where alternatives can be necessary! The good news is that we know how online friends can help overcome a technical problem, or perhaps suggest another way to get in touch. No matter where in the world you're located.

One for all and all for one - this is what it takes to become a Global Webhead!