Some changes are on the way for Blogging Pedagogy. We've upgraded to Drupal 4.7, which means some new functions. It also means that we will soon have a new look (which, in my opinion, is long overdue).

Here are a couple of things you might notice right away

1) Regular visitors to the site may have noticed the "Tags" section on the left-hand side of the page. In the past, people posting to the site chose from a list of categories that best described their post. With our new "free tagging" function, bloggers can type in any "tag" they'd like. Tags are keywords that describe a post, and any number of tags can be entered by a blogger (separated by commas). You can use a tag someone has already used, or you can invent your own. The Tags section to the left is known as "tag cloud." Larger text indicates that a lot of posts fall into that category (notice the largest tag is "general pedagogy" - it seems that most people have stayed with this tag since it used to be the default), smaller text means that fewer posts use that tag. You'll notice that I've tagged this entry with "blogging" (a tag that has been used previously) and "administrative" (a tag that I just created).

For more information on tagging, check out the Wikipedia entry or this blog about tagging.

2) If you subscribe to Blogging Pedagogy with an RSS reader or news aggregator (for more info on RSS readers, check out this wikipedia entry) you'll notice that the author of a post shows up in your RSS reader (this is something johnmjones asked for a couple of weeks ago). In the future, your RSS reader will also show the tags associated with a blog entry.

More changes to come. Any feedback you'd like to provide would be greatly appreciated.