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Just Drafting
I've been continuing to enjoy dipping into the #ETMOOC stream, beginning to feel a lot more relaxed about missing things. A couple of days ago I followed a link by Tiago S
Connected CPD - Don't fence me in
Starlings roosting by Steven C Wilson Attribution-NoDerivs License I've written several version of this post now, thinking about blogging, e-portfolios and CPD I am not pa
Minimal Blogging Engines
I've come across a couple of new, simple to use, almost throw away blogging tools recently: Throwww Throwww - The Simplest Blog . An example post: Minimal Blogging engines
Testing a new system
This is a quick test of a alternative way to post to my blog. I tend to blog from my MacBook. I've been testing various iOS systems for blogging on the go. I've also read
Glew Notes: FeedWordPress
Like quite a few folk I've been kicking the tyres of Glew a wee bit over the last week or so. One very interesting feature is a plugin that Charlie has preinstalled into t
Making Waves
I've been aware of Radiowaves for a long time, it was one of the inspirations for Radio Sandaig and started me podcasting. I have not followed the development of the site
Posts, Titles and Tags 2011
As usual at this time of year I've been looking back over the posts. In the past I've tried to summarise a few, but this year I though I'd take a different view . Posts Pe
Educating like it's 1998
Last week at work (North Lanarkshire Educational ICT & Technical Services) we were being supported by Oggy East of Semantise , who is helping update the setup of our schoo
Blogsy an iPad blogging app
Blogsy is a new iPad blog editor that has a lot of useful features. It allow you to blog photos from Flickr and a couple of other photo sites, video from YouTube and also
iPad HTML Blogging
For historical reasons and to give myself some sort of illusion of control I tend to write blog posts in html. I use TextMate and its blogging bundle which does all sorts
iPads and Glow
iPad stand by tim_d Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License I was pretty impressed with the iPad 2 which was launched this week. Some nice new features and the speed
ScotEduBlogs Update
Republished due to a wee bit of bother with the backend of my blog. At the weekend Robert added a new feature to ScotsEduBlogs : ScotEduBlogs Professional ScotsEduBlogs ex
Getting Started Blogging 3- Comments
This post is the third in an attempted series about getting started blogging loosely linked to the launch of glow blogs . Conversation by Rishi Menon Attribution-NonCommer
Getting Started Blogging 2 - What is it About
This post is the second in an attempted series about getting started blogging loosely linked to the launch of glow blogs . Have you see this: This is an example of a WordP
Getting Started Blogging 1 - Short Term blogs
With Glow blogs looking like they may stimulate the use of blogs in more Scottish classrooms I though I might put together a few posts about some ideas around starting to
Glow Gets Blogs
Yesterday saw the launch of blogs in Glow. A much requested feature from the beginning it is great to see Glow getting into a web 2 world at last. To set up your blog you
Delicious AppleScript
A while back I stopped splicing my daily delicious links into my RSS feed via FeedBurner , a couple of folk told me they did not find it very helpful. I've been wondering
Comment Tracking
There has been a fair bit of comment recently on how twitter is taking over from blogging and commenting on blogs. My own blog has never had a high number of comments, but
Sandaig Primary Weblogs Move
The Sandaig blogs have been running since 2004, it is now time to move to a newer system for the school's blogging. We have installed wordpress and are going to use that f
SLFtalk, power of Posterous (and twitter)
Two or three weeks ago I was having a skype chat to David Noble thinking about a podcasting project. We have not figured this out yet but we did come up with a short term
Moving Sandaig Blogs to Wordpress
At Sandaig I used pivot as a weblog system. it is a system I like. This blog run on PivotX a complete rewrite of pivot. When I started the Sandaig blogs, I choose pivot ma
picPosterous
picPosterous is a photo and video publishing app for the iPhone. At first glance I could not see the advantage of using this rather than the iPhone's mail application, and
Mobile Tales
iPhone Icon from Pixel Groovy Blog Yest another mapping/iphone post. This might not seem like education but I consider the mapping of walks etc. a sort of trial for possib
Not Blogging but tweeting
A while back I posted a quote from the guardian The long tail of blogging is dying which put forward the idea that a lot of blogs were going away as twitter and other easy
Holiday Mo blogging
I am just back from a weeks holiday. While I was away I had just about no connectivity. I had packed my laptop and iphone, but there was not internet access I could find a
A wee bit of blog bother
I've not posted here for a bit longer than usual. I am not sure why as I've got a few posts running round my head at the moment. I did have some time this week but that wa
Blogging in MFL basics and links
This post consists of some notes and information to go along with a short chat I will be having with folk at the North Lanarkshire business meeting in Modern Languages at
North Lanarkshire blogging
When I heard I was going to be working in north Lanarkshire one of the first things I did was to check ScotEduBlog's list of blogs to see if there was much blogging activi
wei wu wei blogging - posterous
Wu wei - No action Originally uploaded by ???? I've been a fan of posterous since it started and have been amazed how the service has added features as quickly as they hav
Cameras in Class
I've been thinking of how I've used digital camera in class over the last few years. I know this is not a very 'new' topic for a post but I think my experience and thought
Sandaig Blogging
Photo lepiaf.geo Some rights reserved One of the things I am missing about not being in the classroom at Sandaig is the day to day updating of what feels like my baby, the
Taking an iPhone for a walk
I've been quite interested in finding out how my iPhone could be used in teaching and learning. last week I and my class making GPS MathTracks inspired by the LearningTrac
Blog Move
I am moving from John @ Sandaig to John's World Wide Wall Display . The RSS Feed url will stay the same. I've been blogging at Sandaig since February 2005 and worked at Sa
Back in the Classroom
I've got the the end of a quick first week back at school. The first time in a couple of years I've had a class to myself, year before last I was doing ICT and last year i
Flowgram
Flowgram is a new web-based tool for giving online tours of sets of webpages or photos. I have hasd a quick play (click the widget to see my creation) and it looks like it
posterous a simple as blogging can be?
posterous is a new blogging tool that takes simple to extremes. To post to posterous you just send an email to post@posterous.com from any email account, the mail is poste
The shape of blogs to come
I've run a couple of short term collaborative poetry blogs this session. The first was part of the The Sandaig McClure Connection : Solutions - A poetry conversation . I p
This, That and a Trip
It has been a couple of weeks since my last post and may be a while before the next. This will be a even more unfocused post than usual. I part the last of activity has be
ScotEduBlogs, Now with added support
The ScotEduBlogs site is dear to my heart. An opensource effort by teachers in Scotland to aggregate and redistribute the posting by Scottish educational blogger of all sh
Georgia on my Mind
On Thursday this week I'll be off to Georgia for a long weekend visit. Carol Fuller of Sammy McClure, Sr. Middle School is being honored by Woodruff Arts Center in the Woo
International Edubloggers Directory
I've joined the International Edubloggers Directory although I am probably a good deal scruffier that the folk on the graphic.
Starting to get things moving
A while ago I was moaning about not managing to get the kids blogging , this sessions class are a very different bunch than last years and I've been struggling to get them
News Reading, New Tweeting
I think I only managed one blog post over the christmas holidays. I did tumble 8 times, post half a dozen links to del.ic.io.us and do a fair bit of tweeting . I didn't re
Wee Movies
embed I've been thinking bit more about getting children to make and publish wee movies . I was working with a couple of children on one recently and thinking about making
Scran Image blogging
© National Museums Scotland. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk. I am delighted to have noticed that the wonderful folk at scran have improved their blog this facility. I noticed th
iMovie and wee movies
I read quite a lot about the new(ish) version of iMovie, a lot of it negative, for example this Wired.com article lists the things that the previous versions did that iMov
Tumblr 3.0
I've mentioned Tumblr before, and of course link to my tumblelog in the sidebar here. On saturday I saw that Tumblr 3.0 was announced with " Over 400 new features, fixes,
I still don't really get facebook
Herald on Sunday : Cyberbullying Originally uploaded by cx1uk I just noticed Neil 's photo on flickr. Article from The Herald on Sunday about cyberbullying. Includes recom
Twitteratation
Somewhat unbelievably, I am watching Ewan give a presentation via twitter ! He is at ULearn07 giving a Keynote . nope commenting on Helen Baxter's , I checked New Zealand
Stuck with ICT
I've been reading some of the wordpress course over at swict.com :||: the place for help when you're Stuck With ICT . Swict is a project by Andrew Brown . If you want to g
World Wide Wall Display Presentation
I had a bit of bother with this one. I've not used keynote much, but it was very easy to create a presentation with. While playing about with it I noticed you could record
Errors & Frustrations
A frustrating afternoon. I've not managed to get blogging embedded in my class this session yet, although we have dipped our toes in a little . I have been working with ou
Wordpress mu @ Sandaig
After all the fuss last year testing WP and Lyceum here with pretty poor results, I now have a working wordpress mu setup: Sandaig Pupils I've not got any children started
Mac Tools
Yesterday I was at the Apple Store Glasgow opening. Fun was had by a lot of smiling people. As I mentioned I was interviewed by Mark 's ex -piecast team The MacCast . I wo
Connections wanted
I've been a lot slower off the mark getting my class blogging this session, by this time last year we had several posts on the otter's blog . My class this session are a l
About this blog
Over the last couple of weeks I've been reading quite a few post as about what makes a good edublog and blog identity. Eventually I ended up on Andy Roberts' Writing an Ab
Tumbling and tools
& Tumblr After talking about it I decided to try out a tumblelog, using in this case Tumblr : John's Tumbelog . Tumblr is a very nice application and keeps things clean an
The Start of the holidays
Straight from school on friday to the pub, for a bit to eat, a few Guinness and to talk a fair bit of nonsense. Steam was let off the world put to rights and a few farewel
Session over
Although I am ready for my holidays rather a lot of interesting things have appeared on the horizon in the last couple of weeks. On the software front I finally got round
Getting Comfortable with Gaming?
Three years ago I noticed a Strange 'Game' , (the game is no longer at the url links from that post). I played the game for a few minutes and got nowhere, it looked lovely
Masterclass (no more)
Yesterday I went to Glasgow's Concluding Masterclass Conference. As usual with these meetings I really enjoyed meeting and chatting to other ict enthusiasts from Glasgow s
Starting Blogging in the Classroom
Last week at elive I was talking about blogging in the classroom as an extension of normal classroom practice and showing examples of things we have done with blogging ove
PSP2Blog
PSP2 Originally uploaded by dce_76 . Got home from our inservice day to find a few children had been posting to their blogs, shortest, but in some ways most interesting wa
TeachMeet07
elive seems to have got off to a great start, quite a few blog posts. While I am waiting for them to turn up on ScotEduBlogs news: index I've folled with my own wee toy: t
Know a great commenter? I know a ton
Originally uploaded by michale . I just posted a comment on Dangerously Irrelevant: Know a great commenter? listing just a few of the folk who have really made their mark
eLive and teachMeet07
I am quite excited, next Wednesday I am going to elive : Edinburgh's Festival of Learning for the 21st Century. I seem to spend half my blogging life reading posts about g
Dave Cain on Booruch
I just caught up with the last Booruch which I forgot to load onto the ipod before going on the Netherlands trip and suddenly remembered it just before I left to walk to t
Vote for us!
A while back we got a free LG shine from The LG Shine bloggers relations programme . This was really useful on our recent trip to the Netherlands where we posted photos re
37 Children, 6 Days and 180 comments
We got back from our Netherlands 2007 trip this morning after a rather tiring drive through the night. I think we made a pretty good fist of blogging the trip and I am beg
Off to Holland Tomorrow
Spent the day packing and getting ready to go. My inbox is empty, I uploaded the new episode of Radio Sandaig the Netherlands 2007 blog had a final tweaking and I worked o
TeachMeet07
TeachMeet07 Originally uploaded by Edublogger . Over at TeachMeet07 - ScotEduBlogs Wiki you can sign up for the next meet. The meet will be on the 23rd of May to coincide
Scran Scribble
© Gerry McCann. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk. I've just got my self a blog at Scran Scribble weblog service. I finally got hold of my GTC number and joined Scran as a teacher
Bluetooth blogging
Note our LG Shine sitting on the macbook. Our network is not really functioning in school at the moment as it is migrated from Mitel to Dell. Despite this we managed to ge
Creative ICT Innovations Conference Manchester
Upcoming.org: Creative ICT Innovations Conference at Chorlton Park Primary School (Saturday, April 21, 2007) Free conference for educators interested in innovative develop
Another test blog
John's Moblog - a wee test... for getting my head round mobile stuff. Probably will not last long but will stop this blog from getting clogged up.
Links and loops
Just noticed VidDownloader - Back Again! - Download Youtube, Google, Myspace, Break.com...videos in DIVx Avi Format which might be useful at home if you want to download y
Putting it together
This week I have been working with our two primary seven classes in the media room. Trying as usual to do a little too much in the time, I've been doing a bit of basic spr
TeachersTube
I've seem reference to TeachersTube in a couple of my feeds ( CogDogBlog today) Looks like an interesting idea, a safe youtube. I don't know if it is suitable for solving
LG Shine
A while ago I mentioned that I had received a LG Shine phone from the LG Shine blogger relations programme . I've started to investigate/play around to see if it can be of
ScotEdublogs.org.uk update and a request
I've not blogged about ScotEduBlogs.org.uk for a while now, but I use the site every day. The site got a bit of a face lift today, Robert fixed up my latest effort at desi
BarCampScotland
I spent the afternoon at BarCampScotland BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. Organised by and others
Classroom Organisation
After a few comment on Time: How long does it take your kids to post? I've started a page on Classroom Organisation on Tom Barrett’s classroomblogging wiki. This is to col
ScotEduBlogs RSS
One of the big plusses of the ScotEduBlogs site is the production of aggregated, time sorted rss feeds. I've just added this feed to my sidebar on the left. If you click o
Time: How long does it take your kids to post?
Cluster thingy Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel . I've been reading Ewan's post about play and Mrs. O'Neill's too . Lots of good thinks to think about. Ewan's post is
St. Mary?s Bannockburn Blog
Joe Shaw just pointed be to a very nice looking idea St. Mary?s Bannockburn Blog . It is a homework blog with the work posted in comments which are both approved until the
Some Links
www.bubbl.us/ , flash mind mapping, I've spent about 1 minute on it and am convinced it would be useful in school, if we can access it. I wonder if you can create m
A week's worth
It has been a busy week, and I've not posted since last weekend. We are still 3 members of Staff down at school which means that I am back in class full-time rather than t
ScotsEduBlogs Needs You
Over at the ScotEduBlogs news: index site and have be working flat out. You can keep read Pete: ScotEduBlogs and Robert's post and comments to keep up or cut over to scote
slinking in Pivot
The blog software I use here, is GPL ed and extendable . I've used a few extensions to show flash content and even hacked one to play mp3s . I just installed another one t
Its not flickr but...
If you read my blog much you might have noticed the odd moan about flickr, not being able to be used it here. Recently I found Pics4Learning . This is intended to provide
Scotedublogs - A New Hub for Scottish Educational Blogs
I just want to point to Robert 's post about Scotedublogs - A New Hub for Scottish Educational Blogs which is pretty wonderful news. Teachers doing it for themselves What
Slideshow test
share A cross between putting my money were my mouth is and enjoying the last couple days of freedom. Click on the left right hand side of images to advance, the left to g
2007...
An interesting pessimistc/optomistic post by Will Yes, there are more and more examples of teachers and students using these tools in their practice, but the numbers of ex
my blogging year part 2
I see Ewan had taken up this meme , I guess it is self indulgent but fairly harmless, I am having a good time anyway reviewing my years blogging . Next year, if I am here,