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A Great Question
I want to help empower our learning community to design, hack, build, collaborate, remix, share and explore in all sorts of ways. In essence, I strive to contribute toward
Glew, get Stuck in
Lots of information about glow and glow2 trickling through twitter recently. There seems to be a change in timescale for Glow2. This was discovered: View Notice - Public C
Simple Flickr CC now with Monkeys
Every so often something nice happens: Absolutely awesome Creative Commons image search with proper attribution johnjohnston.info/flickrCC/ by @ johnjohnston , shared by @
Simple Flickr Search Update
Last week I was in a class doing another setup a blog/eportfolio session using Glow blogs. The process is a bit long winded due to the way glow blogs are set up. Usually t
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
Primary Games API = Games in Glow (and elsewhere)
.fntest{padding:2px;font-size: 0.8em;vertical-align: super;text-decoration:none;background:#E6E6E6} I've been aware of the Primary Games Arena 1 for a while. I only notice
iPod & iPhone Movie Editors
Over a month ago I started dumping screenshots of a few iPhone movie editors, iMovie, ReelDirector, Splice & Vimeo with the intention of writing a detailed comparison of t
Glow Wikis
Glow has added wikis to it list of features. What is a wiki? (from wikipedia): A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to con
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
iPod Touch ideas
Last session I was lucky enough to be involved with a small ipod touch pilot; Glencairn iPod and blogged about it and various iPod Touch things several times . Image Court
Glow Light First Impressions
Glow light came online today yesterday: Glow Light is a new alternative Glow interface designed with a simpler 'splash' page. This 'splash' page will display a list of use
Flickr Search and Stamp for iPod Touch
I saw a tweet mentioning me and the Flickr Search and Stamp for the iPod touch project on Friday. Clicking the link took me to Searching for CC images - SHea iPod Touch Pr
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
Five iPad apps
This week I have added five new apps to my iPad and thought I’d post them here. The whole post was made on the iPad all text 'written' with Dragon Dictation. The first is
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
iPod Touch Notes #2
It has taken me a while to get round to the second post based on a morning at Glencairn primary working on the ipod touch project . In fact the pupils have beat me to it:
iPod Touch Poems
Recently I've been thinking about ipod touches quite a bit. As well as giving some support to the Glencairn ipod project and being the middle man for a wee Consolarium tri
iPod touch project
I've just organised (in a loose sense) an iPod touch pilot at Glencairn Primary School. At the North Lanarkshire ICT & Technical Services Centre we have an an ICT Box Sche
TeachMeet Mobile - Classroom Podcasting
&channelIn Having just read Joe Dale's Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Discovering the power of RSS at TM Mobile the text version of his audio at TeachMeet Mobile
Simple Flickr Search update, now with stamping
A while back I made a simple flickr search tool this is not as slick as some of the beautiful search tools out there but it was designed for pupils to use to get images to
Smart Pop Art
Back in the day, I enjoyed getting children to create pop art style pictures with Flash a 2004 example : The children brought in photos as guide layers and traced them. Fl
Glow 1 thinking of Glow 2
My blogging seems to have hit a all time low. I think this is mainly because I used to blog about my classroom practice (with some iPhone, web tech and the odd AppleScript
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
Small Scale Video in the Classroom
I've occasionally blogged about my use of video in the classroom here before but I thought it might be worth pulling some of the ways I've used it together into a more 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
GPS MathTracks
After an exciting twittersation between Andrew Brown and Tom Barrett reported on David 's blog EdCompBlog: Can you guess what it is yet? and Ollie's iPhone posts (starting
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
Social Drill and Practise
Function Machine, an old HC stack of mine ( a newer flash version ) They say that things in education go round in circles. I came late to teaching and later to ict. I got
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
Wikis
A while back I installed pmwiki on the Sandaig Primary Site . I've now finished one project and am in the middle of another, so it is probably time for a few thoughts. The
Edu Twits - a no code mashup (part 1)
Edu Twits is a pretty quick and dirty test of creating a no-code-mashup in the style of Non-Programistan and an exploration of how far you can get creating a useful tool w
opensourceCPD
These are the slides I used at TeachMeetPerth Last week. You can see the images on a flickr set . The VoiceThread above is a work in progress, I'll probably re record the
A Picnik with with a little help from an API
Athole recently blogged about the online picture editor Picnik . I had noticed that flickr now incorporates editing with picnik and it is fitted into the up and coming ver
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
Do I need a tumblelog?
Or some sort of micro/mini blog that lets you add just a bit more than del.icio.us to a link... Interesting things I've noticed today: Mr W sent me an invite to skitch , w
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
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
Rommy Robot
Over 10 years ago before I was interested in Web 2.0 technologies into the classroom, before we had the internet in our classrooms, when our school had 3 apple macs and a
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
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
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