A recent BBC News story tells of an investigation by Argyle and Bute Council into the activities of one of its teachers on Twitter. According to the report, the teacher had been posting up to 38 tweets a day, many of which were posted during school hours. Although the micro-blogging site is blocked on school computers, the teacher is thought to have been using her mobile phone.
Twitter - in the news again
I’ve recently been made aware of a really interesting project that Edinburgh Council’s libraries service has been involved in. It’s a bold venture into Web 2.0 waters, under the umbrella brand of Tales of One City.
The whole thing is brought together by a public page on Netvibes (a personalised web portal, similar to iGoogle). You can find it at www.netvibes.com/talesofonecity.
Tales of One City Netvibes page
The page has a customised theme (with an image of books as the header) and an embedded Google Search bar. It then serves up 12 widgets, pulling in information from various sources.
Read more about Tales of One City and the benefits and risks of Web 2.0 in local government
I only just discovered that WordPress has a built-in quicktag for identifying excerpts of posts, to be displayed on the homepage (rather than showing the entire post). For many of you this will be old news, but for those of you who aren’t, read on…
Read more about making the More tag accessible
This week (4th – 10th May 2009) is Deaf Awareness Week. This year’s theme, “Look At Me”, aims to:
improve understanding of the different types of deafness by highlighting the many different methods of communication used by deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people, such as sign language and lipreading.
For a while now I’ve been working on a business case to pilot a project, offering key content from our website in the form of video of a British Sign Language interpreter. The following is an extract from that business case, explaining why such content could be valuable:
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Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD) 2009, with bloggers from around the world posting their thoughts on the subject. You can read more about the day on the Diary of a Goldfish website.
I thought I’d have a look at the term “disablism” – to get to grips with its meaning and work out how broadly it can be applied.
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