James N. Farmer

James N. Farmer

James N. Farmer (born 1976, Birmingham, UK) is founder and CEO of Edublogs.org [cite web |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18928141-12332,00.html |title=Hobby blog now a learning aid |accessdate=2007-11-19 |author=Bernard Lane |date=26 April 2006] , the largest global weblog community for educators. James is currently based in Australia, where he has recently been the Online Community Editor of "The Age", and Lecturer in Education Design at Deakin University] . James' blog, "Incorporated Subversion," [ [http://incsub.org incorporated subversion ] ] has been a resource for educators involved with social media and online publishing since 2003.

Edublogs.org hosts over 120,000 separate weblogs, used by educators and students around the world. These weblogs are hosted free of charge, and without advertising.

James is founder of the Edublog Awards] ref>cite web |url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1985302,00.html |title= The best of the blogs |accessdate=2007-11-27 |author=Steve O'Hear |date=23 November 2004] , a series of educational weblog awards which have been run every year since 2004. The awards are now co-facilitated by James Farmer and Josie Fraser.

James was one of the 3 organisers of BlogTalk Downunder, the first blogging conference in Australia. [ [http://incsub.org/blogtalk/index.php?cat=3 Blogtalk Downunder » About ] ]

Organiser of WordCamp Melbourne 2007, held on 17th November 2007. [cite web |url=http://incsub.org/blog/2007/wordcamp-melbourne-is-on |title=WordCamp Melbourne is ON! |accessdate=2007-11-21 |author=James Farmer |date=11 October 2004]

Presentations

* Speaker at BlogTalk DownUnder, "Centred Communication: Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation" [ [http://incsub.org/blogtalk/?page_id=54 Blogtalk Downunder » James Farmer: Centred Communication: Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation ] ]
* keynote speaker at ICTEV 2007
* one of three speakers at the 2006 Education.au event, "So what’s changed?"
* speaker at the WordCamp Melbourne 2007, "Your first 100K WPMU users"

Publications

* Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments [ [http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/farmer.html ASCILITE 2004: Farmer - discussion boards, weblogs and communities of inquiry in online learning environments ] ]
* Blogs @ Anywhere: High fidelity online communication [http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane05/blogs/proceedings/22_Farmer.pdf]
* [http://incsub.org/blogtalk/?page_id=54 Centred communication - Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation]

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