Community News

  • Upcoming Event - Open Seminar
    Thu 4 Sep 2008
    After the summer, it's time to start warming-up with new discussions. The Open Seminar Sessions @ EVOLVE are back! ;-) This Month is about PLEs. Hopefully a lot of food for thought here!! This month our guest speaker is Scott Wilson from CETIS UK, who will share some thoughts about Personal Learning Environments The idea of a PLE [...]
  • Mentoring and 21st Century Skills
    Thu 3 Jul 2008
    Anne Fox was our Guest speaker for the June topic. The presentation focused on Mentoring and 21st Century Skills. Anne provided us with some quite thought provoking ideas on the new challenges education is facing regarding the demands of the 21st Century Society. Anne advocates the mentoring as key for lifelong learning and ongoing further development, [...]
  • Bee Dieu’s Keynote Session
    Fri 30 May 2008
    Bee Dieu's Session is now available here. We would like to thank Bee and all of those who take part in the Evolve Launch Event. It was great to connect to you all. For those who couldn't make it, you can link to the recording of the session and listen to it (the wonders of technology!). We can't [...]
  • Evolve is launched
    Wed 28 May 2008
    Barbara Dieu has agreed to be the Keynote speaker for our first event which is focuses on the topic: Social software in Schools and Institutions. Barbara's presentation is entitled Social Media in English Language Teaching. The Presentation will take place in May 30 at 1700 GMT (Check here for other time zones). The Venue for the [...]

Recent Posts

  • September Wrap-Up
    Thu 2 Oct 2008 in e-Learning by e-Learning
    This month we grew not just in blogs and users, but in company size. As I mentioned in a previous post, the team from Intense Debate is now a part of Automattic. We’re also trucking along with Version 2.7, and listening to your input from the two design surveys opened up this month. Here are the [...]
  • WordPress 2.7 Wireframes
    Wed 1 Oct 2008 in e-Learning by e-Learning
    For those of you who have been downloading the nightly builds or contributing code to 2.7, you’ve noticed how quickly features are being added, small layout changes are gradually being implemented, and the application is morphing before your very eyes. For the most part, the response has been extremely positive, but even the people who [...]
  • WordPress 2.7 Design Survey #2: Search, Favorites, Future Publish
    Sun 28 Sep 2008 in e-Learning by e-Learning
    Did you get a chance to weigh in on how to structure the navigation in the next version of WordPress two weeks ago? Another round of mini-mockups and multiple choice questions awaits the first 5000 respondents. The WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 is now available to take your opinions regarding: Where to put the search box Where [...]
  • WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish
    Sun 28 Sep 2008 in e-Learning by e-Learning
    Another round of mini-mockups and multiple choice questions awaits the first 5000 respondents. WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 is now available to take your opinions regarding: Where to put the search box Where to put the Add New Post button/favorites menu How to label the Future Publish/Edit Timestamp function The survey (hosted by the good guys over at PollDaddy.com) [...]
  • PPLEs - an social and political issue
    Tue 23 Sep 2008 in Learning ideas
    Great Evolve seminar on Personal Learning Environments last night (you can see the recording here - if this link fails click here and go to Monday 22). What came through clearly was that PLEs are primariy a social and political issue. As I write this Scott Wilson who presented at the seminar has just twittered [...]
  • WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey
    Mon 15 Sep 2008 in e-Learning by e-Learning
    Note: Survey is closed as of 9/18/08. Thanks for the feedback! WordPress 2.7 is currently in development and as some people already know, it features a revised layout with a left-hand navigation column that was designed in response to user feedback regarding the use of screen real estate. Because the navigation came straight from the Crazyhorse [...]
  • I miss album covers sooooo much…. you just don’t get...
    Fri 12 Sep 2008 in beyond IT
    I miss album covers sooooo much…. you just don’t get this with an mp3.
  • WordPress 2.6.2
    Mon 8 Sep 2008 in e-Learning by e-Learning
    Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand().  With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2.  If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade.  With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and [...]
  • Sticky Posts!
    Mon 8 Sep 2008 in e-Learning by e-Learning
    Regular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or other static info at the top of your posts. This feature has existed as Sticky Topics in the forums, but hasn’t been available on blogs. Until now. In the publishing options for each post you’ll now see “Stick this post [...]
  • Kevin Scalzo, BLAB! Show again…
    Sat 6 Sep 2008 in beyond IT
    Kevin Scalzo, BLAB! Show again…