Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 8:49 AM
To: ED-TECH@LISTSERV.MIAMI.EDU
Subject: [ED-TECH] Blogs (less stress?)
It is the end of the semester. We can see stress building. I hope you all can take a deep breath, slowly exhale, and feel some of the tension leaving your body. Help your students do this, too, OK?
I don't want to add stress to your lives, and I have lots of things that I would like to tell you. I have decided to try to put some things into web logs (blogs). These are electronic journals on the web. I will still send things to this mailing list when I think it is particularly interesting or important, but I will post to my blogs all the time. So I hope to reduce your stress by limiting my e-mails while still giving those people who want access to a lot of information a way to get it.
On each of my blogs you will find the text and links for the last five messages, links to my other blogs, links to the last 10 messages in this blog, and links to the monthly archives for this blog. You can add comments to a post if you would like to correct or add something to it.
My Ed-Tech blog covers lots of thoughts related to education and/or technology. This is the "over-flow" from this mailing list. I hope you will at least take a look at this one.
http://wvilberg.blogspot.com
My Magazine Notes blog collects snippets of interest from the variety of magazines that I read. This includes PC World, PC Magazine, Wired, Fast Company, Technology and Learning, and many more. Consider this a clipping service of the most interesting things I have been reading.
http://magazinenotes.blogspot.com
My Tips & Tricks blog is my place to put solutions to problems that I run into, mainly with Windows. Two examples are how to set up your browser to open immediately to a blank page rather than a web page, and what web pages at UM have names so you can get to them quickly.
http://wrvtips.blogspot.com
My Bb at UM blog is a place to post notes about our Blackboard system.
http://bb-at-um.blogspot.com
My BLKBRD-L NOTES blog is an attempt to collect information that I get from the international mailing list from Arizona State University. This blog is probably not relevant to people at UM.
http://blkbrd-lnotes.blogspot.com
Each of these blogs has an RSS feed. You can use those to keep informed of the newest postings without having to check the sites. I haven't figured all of that out yet.
Bill Vilberg
305-284-3949 (work); 786-218-3052 (cell); 305-255-9138 (home)
