James Farmer's dad, Dr. Mike Farmer, has just entered the family edublogging business. He's just posted his fustration on getting started wordpress in particular and blogging in general. Rather than just send him a link to Elgg I left a round up of what's currently available in for people wanting to get started, which I'm repeating here for anyone who hasn't yet discovered Mike's blog:
"Hi James' dad. Have to disagree with your last poster about the non-existence of the edublogging community - there are both UK and international communities (not to mention those in all the other countries) - they are pretty new, but very much kicking.
Also - there are training and support events for new edublogger/rss explorers. Why not come along to the next ALT edublog workshop, which isn't advertised yet but will be on Tuesday 4th of May (book early because the last one was completely over-subscribed)
There is an edubloggers mailing list you can join which will keep you up to date with any key UK activities, and a UK & Ireland edubloggers directory. There’s also the third UK edubloggers meetup taking place in London on the 4th of February, where we will be finalising the plans for the first UK edublogger conference which will be taking place in June, as well as brainstorming, swapping information and socialising.
Don’t forget ALT-C this year, which will attract a lot of bloggers and podcasters because of the pro web 2.0 themes. I’m also on the ALT-C blogging group this year, and it will be our job to make sure that there is support available for people who want to try blogging out at the conference – I’m also going to submit an overview of the edublogging awards, as a practical introduction to the wide range of learning practices being supported by blogs.
Internationally, there’s a ton going on, as James is well aware of! For a start you could check out the International Edublog Awards (founded by your son). You could also take a look at the International edublogger Frappr Map.
Good luck to Mike & to everyone else getting started with blogging this year!
You tell 'im! Grumpy old bugger ;)
Posted by: James | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at 23:28
You tell him to go authorise his comments occasionally - he still hasn't OK'd mine.
Posted by: Josie | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 12:04