James N. Farmer

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James N. Farmer (born 1976, Birmingham, UK) is founder and CEO of Edublogs.org[1], 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,"[2] 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>Steve O'Hear (23 November 2004). The best of the blogs. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.</ref>, 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.[3]

Organiser of WordCamp Melbourne 2007, held on 17th November 2007.[4]

[edit] Presentations

  • Speaker at BlogTalk DownUnder, "Centred Communication: Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation"[5]
  • 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"

[edit] Publications

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bernard Lane (26 April 2006). Hobby blog now a learning aid. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.
  2. ^ incorporated subversion
  3. ^ Blogtalk Downunder » About
  4. ^ James Farmer (11 October 2004). WordCamp Melbourne is ON!. Retrieved on 2007-11-21.
  5. ^ Blogtalk Downunder » James Farmer: Centred Communication: Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation
  6. ^ ASCILITE 2004: Farmer - discussion boards, weblogs and communities of inquiry in online learning environments
  7. ^ http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane05/blogs/proceedings/22_Farmer.pdf