The first hotseat with Professor Liber is scheduled to start this Monday, 13th October. However, there are three slight complications:
1. As a knock on effect of the slow admissions / registration process we can’t host the hotseat in Moodle as we had intended. It will instead be in a private WordPress blog for the first week accessible only to student researchers on the Masters in Learning with Technology programme.
Thereafter, it is proposed that Institute for Educational Cybernetics staff at the University of Bolton will also be able to join in. At this point, the hotseat will be viewable to the www, but any comments or questions asked in the previous week will be either anonymised or deleted as requested to enable you to freely participate. We haven’t tried this approach before but thought it might be a good marketing tool as well as provide a valuable and freely accessible resource to others – thoughts please;
2. You will need to sign up for an account if you haven’t already got one at WordPress.com – it takes only a few seconds. This doesn’t require you to have a WordPress blog, but it does allow us to invite you to the private Hotseat blog through the email address yo registered with – email Stephen using the account you registered with;
3. Oleg has been off work ill last week and we will not know if he will be well enough to participate until Monday – if there is a problem, we will advise you of the revised schedule.
Thanks.
8 responses so far ↓
Stephen Powell // October 14, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I hope that Oleg will be back to work tomorrow (Wednesday, 14th) and I have added everyone to the Hotseat Blog who has sent me their email address that they signed up to for their wordpress account.
BTW – is everyone using an RSS reader to follow this Blog. If not, I think you really need to start doing so and ask if you need some help with this…
colinshaw73 // October 14, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hi Stephen
Yes , I am using Google reader to help me keep updated.
Col
Shirley // October 14, 2008 at 11:02 pm
It may be a local problem, but I suspect not – I can’t pick up the RSS feed for the hotseat. The message is “An error has occurred because the feed being requested cannot be found.”
Is this because the hotseat is private? I have no problem with the RSS otherwise – I have just checked by using the RSS feed on this page.
An RSS feed would be useful, but not essential.
Shirley
stefanoghazzali // October 15, 2008 at 8:57 am
Hi Shirley I get the same error for the hotseats blog
Stefano
Stephen Powell // October 15, 2008 at 9:11 am
Coud be as you describe – it would make sense. However, I will have a look around the settings and see if there is something I can turn on…
idibl // October 15, 2008 at 10:06 am
As far as I can see there is no easy fix for this. There are CSS hacks that can be done and references to Widgets that seem to work sometimes, but none are doable in a short time frame. Sorry about that…
colinshaw73 // October 19, 2008 at 10:15 am
Hi All
I know I am being really thick, but how do I join the hotseat blogg? I have a wordpress account, but cannot workout how to join the hotseat blogg!!!
Thanks
Col
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