I’ve been ferretting away with my domain issue, and discovered that I have two choices…thus if you know anything about these things…give me your advice.
I have told my blog to point to heyjude.wordpress again as the main domain, with judyoconnell.com simply pointing to my wordpress site. The whole blog just flips over – just like that!
With this arrangement the original feeds, and relationships to my posts remain intact. The new judyoconnell feeds and domain routing back to wordpress seems just fine. In a way, this makes sense for me for now, as I only wanted the judyoconnell domain for efficiency. But is this the best long-term approach?
Which of these should I be using as the main domain now? Really…..tell me!
Oh, another tiny plus is that the blogging is more responsive keeping with heyjude.wordpress – but I’m talking seconds here!
The good thing is that WordPress is just so darned flexible – great work from the WordPress team. Technorati Tags: wordpress, Judy O’Connell
Get yourself a copy. It is a very comprehensive examination of Web 2.0 indeed! I have it sitting on my desk at work, and have been dipping into it with great enthusiasm.
Now everytime the library has an update, a library event, a new book or video, or new newsletter, it goes automatically to twitter. If the content is too long for the message, it automatically creates a tiny url.
I can’t begin to keep up with the range of social networking options that are available to me – and you! There is no doubt that the scenario put forward by those two canny journalists, Robin and Matt, back in 2005 with EPIC 2014, and EPIC 2015 is just happening and happening…….
I’ve been catching up on Twitter (should you or shouldn’t you?), playing around with Ning! (which needs a good focus to make it work well …. gosh, I belong to too many networks, and so for my money Ning is now too cumbersome for quick networking. However, I believe that a focused activity in Ning is very good for professional networking and project work).
This morning Twitter gave me this; showed me Tumblr in action; and got me to explore Picnik. I got a peep into the lives of my professional colleagues who so readily shared their moments of insight with their friends. I am wondering where this is fitting into the learning needs of our students. The Horizon Project might help us work some of this out.
This cartoon catches bit of what is happening now in social networking 🙂
I want to thank Julie Lindsay, Vicki Davis and others involved in the Horizon Project for once again showing us the exciting benefits of a global e-learning experience. Aren’t these students just awesome?
This project (using Wikispaces, Delicious, Slideshare, Ning, Twitter, Meebo, YouTube and many other online tools) is a ‘trip to the future’ where students will envision, create, and discuss what this future will look like withothers around the world. Through their work on the wiki, the students will be researching and experiencing web 2.0 enabled learning in a global community.
Student work will be assessed against three criteria related to the objectives of the Horizon Project.
To understand, analyze and evaluate the trends highlighted in the Horizon Report 2007based on key ideas and areas of impact.
To create a project wiki page that details this investigation and synthesis of the material.
To use Web 2.0 tools to facilitate collaboration as well as creation.
The comprehensive rubric is worth reading. They also made use of ISTE technology standards NETS.S (revised) for ‘What students should know and be able to do to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital world’.Explore the Horizon Project, the Teachers’s Page and the Students Page.
The students come from USA, Austria, Bangladesh, Australia and China.
I have been invited to join the group as a member of the Expert Review Panel, supporting and reviewing the section on Social Networking. I expect to learn a great deal from these wonderful educators!
Vicki Davis, from Camilla, Georgia, has a beaut introduction to The Horizon Project available at Ning.
Julie Lindsay, from Dhaka, Bangladesh, (who is an aussie) has put a nice introduction to the project on Youtube. Horizon Project Introduction.
To answer Doug’s question…..and for anyone else who is using wordpress….or is curious….
WordPress allows you to purchase a domain name under Options>Domains. This is a newish feature, which is just great for the average blogger like myself who doesn’t want to go into hosting, or more complex alternatives. Just use any domain register to see what’s available before going back to WordPress to register (since WordPress doesn’t provide that search facility).
Just put in your required domain, and the whole process is approved and paid via paypal in a trice. Also the routing is instant! Why did I bother to register my domain? Because searching earlier this year I discovered that many I am interested in were already gone. I just had to grab the only one that was left that would relate to my online efforts.
For Australian’s who are wondering at the lack of ‘au’? We have much stricter rules around domain registration – so to have a ‘com.au’ or ‘net.au’ for example, I would have had to provide information about my registered company or business. Now that’s a direction I have NO plans on ever going….and it is just so easy to tell people at a professional learning session that the blog URL is ‘judyoconnell.com’. Even though WordPress does a great job in providing information for google indexing and other crawlers (and all anyone ever has to do is go to Google and search heyjude or judy o’connell) I know I still have teachers I work with who find that a bit confusing. So a simple URL is a professional must for me.
Of course, my WordPress URL still works at https://heyjude.wordpress.com because I have not moved the blog, just pointed the new domain name to my blog URL. All very smooth via WordPress.com.
I will keep this domain, but how I might be using it in the future might be quite different. For example, my friend John Connell has ‘gone the full hog”. His domain sits here, and his blog (which he arranges his own hosting for having downloaded WordPress from WordPress.org) sits here.
Technorati does not cope with two URLs for one blog – so rankings on the new domain are back to the millions, and the heyjude.wordpress domain will stall and go backwards. Of course, we all know that technorati rankings are artificial – so as Matt says from Wordrpess – enjoy blogging without them 🙂
On the WordPress downside – I have lost the record of all my ‘incoming links’ in my Dashboard. Sorry friends – that was a way that I kept tabs on our global conversation. I guess we will just have to ‘talk together’ some-more 🙂
Like plenty of bloggers before me, changing domains is not as smooth as it should be. So for anyone who has time, I’d appreciate it if you adjusted your blogrolls or other links to point to my new URL to help with any confusion.
Unfortunatley technorati does not cope with these changes, though many other services do.
Today I launched my new domain, to which this blog now points. All seems to be working just fine, though if you have problems picking up my feed you might like to pick up the new feed.
I am not sure how Bloglines will resolve the old vs new feed! And I also don’t know what will happen to the embedded YouTube videos- as I can’t get onto Youtube right now (is this our network or a Youtube problem?). My blog no longer shows the embedded videos, so I will try and resolve this problem – or at least point the post to the previously embedded goodie.
In a way, this post is also a test to see what happens with the domain name changes via wordpress. Currently I can’t preview the post, so I am assuming that some resolution issues still exist. Sigh!
For those with good broadband access, an ABC FourCorners program on Second Life sparked a lot of interest here in Australia. The interactive ‘flash-created’ documentary “You Only Live Twice” is still available via the ABC website and is a fabulous pool of audio/visual/interactive information. You will love it!
I’ve been ferretting away with my domain issue, and discovered that I have two choices…thus if you know anything about these things…give me your advice.
I want to thank 
To answer Doug’s question…..and for anyone else who is using wordpress….or is curious….
judyoconnell.com 
