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I've been using Posterous

Just recently I had to face the problem of how to archive my current Education.au blog You Are Never Alone. We will soon have a new ESA website and it looks very much as if the blogs will disappear. Our old version of Word Press has no archiving and export feature. A couple of people pointed me to Posterous.com.

If you look now at posts that are running both at You Are Never Alone and at Smik's Learning Space you will notice that along the bottom both now say Posted via email from You Are Never Alone (on posterous).

 

First of all at Posterous I was  able to create an account and import all 512 blog posts from my Education.au blog. That was a real bonus - no words lost for posterity, although it couldn't import my categories.

I have discovered there are two ways of using Posterous to create blog posts. One is via email, which involves sending an email to your account at Posterous. However most of our emails are not clean - they carry footers etc, and that junk got posted into the blog post too, and I had to manually clean it out. The second way is to create the post online at Posterous and that works a treat.

So why am I doing it there? Posterous allows you to send your blog posts to anywhere else that you blog - a case of blog once and re-use to your heart's content. You just identify the other blogs that you want your material posted to. I haven't yet played around with inserting images, but it works well for text.

I did find however that I couldn't send the posts to my blog here on me.edu which is a bit annoying, so I guess I'll have to occasionally update this one manually.

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Posted at 11:04AM Jul 16, 2010 by Kerrie Smith  |  Comments[1]

Educationau BlogFest

I don't use this blog much but you might like to look at what is happening this week in our Education.au BlogFest .

Alternatively you can always find me on You Are Never Alone

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Posted at 09:49AM Jan 05, 2010 by Kerrie Smith  | 

edna's online conferences

On Wednesday 18 June edna successfully held our first ever online conference with 5 sessions each of about an hour
Sessions held were 

• social networking with me.edu.au
• Finding resources for embedding in Multimedia
• Digital Literacies
• Learning without Borders
• Education in Other Worlds (Second Life sessions)

For the daytime sessions we used Live Classroom currently set up in edna sandpit. 85 people attended.
On Tuesday 24 June we repeated the conference with exactly the same sessions and 90 people attended.
For those who were unable to attend, and for those who were, the archives of the Live Classroom sessions are now available at
Social Networking with me
18 June 24 June
Finding resources for embedding multimeda
18 June 24 June
Digital literacies
18 June 24 June
Learning without borders
18 June 24 June
These presentations are available through Wimba Live Classroom, and you will find that they require a Participant Login. Just use your first name and they should let you in. You may need to use the Set Up Wizard if it presents itself. The Archive should show the slides, the text comments, and you should be able to listen to the presentation.

The plans are to run more online sessions in the next few months, and you can ensure that you get notifications about them by joining the workshops email list. http://www.lists.edna.edu.au/lists/lists/subscribe?list=workshops

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Posted at 12:59PM Jun 27, 2008 by Kerrie Smith  |