Wednesday 28 September 2005 at 7:23 pm
Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Creating the $100 Laptop
... a presentation from Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab. Negroponte discussed his $100 laptop initiative, in which he is working to produce a low-cost laptop for mass distribution in k-12 schools in the developing world
This might link to the discussions at
SETT about the
SSDN . The problem with having all the wonderful digital resources for learners seem to be the uneven distribution. In Glasgow with a fairly low percentage of households with internet connectivity maybe we need a £100 or even £200 laptop initiative for children.
This also links into the digital native argument somewhere, some disadvantaged children will not grow up using the technology without thinking about it, putting them at an educational disadvantage compared to their better off peers in the city.
tags:
Scottish Learning Festival Andy+Carvin Digital Divide
Monday 26 September 2005 at 3:18 pm
Before SETT I though it was just me,
Ewan and
David.
But there seems to be a lot more, David has
posted about
Exc-el weblogs in East Lothian.
In the podcasting round table at SETT, we met someone with several (still can't find my notes).
It would be nice to find some more or them all.
Sandaig's main
blog is listed at
Scottish Blogs but I don't see any other education blogs there.
Maybe we could start a Scottish Education Blog list somewhere.
I've started tagging Scottish Educational Blogs with
scot-edu-blog at
del.icio.us/tag/scot-edu-blog. If you are a
del.icio.us using Scots Educational blogger or know one please tag it.
If you can think of a better tag than
scot-edu-blog, please let me know in a comment.
Thursday 22 September 2005 at 1:46 pm
Scottish History Glasgow Map
slick google maps style map in flash.
Scottish Learning Festival
Thursday 22 September 2005 at 11:23 am
I am sitting at SETT talking to Heidi about podcasting and blogging, this is wee demo.
Thursday 22 September 2005 at 07:31 am
Last one of the morning before I head off to the
Scottish Learning Festival again.
At the podcast round table
Ewan and I found we were mistaken about the number of Scottish Edu Blogs as another member of the group has a few! (URL when I find my note book)
There is also a
LTS Weblog with quite a lot of posts from SETT yesterday.
Thursday 22 September 2005 at 07:16 am
I took a pile of notes but left my notebook in the Taxi home.
Among other things he said:
Every child should have a blog.
Every child should have Skype.
He also said secondary pupils should not have any filter between themselves and the internet.
technorati tag experiment:
Scottish Learning Festival SETT
Thursday 22 September 2005 at 07:02 am
I took part in the
Scottish Learning Festival organised by
Ewan at the table was
Andy Carvin!
The session seemed to last about 30 seconds. Andy had an Olympus voice recorder that looked good, not too expensive and easy for children to use.
Andy has already uploaded a podcast and the powerpoint of the
presentation he gave earlier. I guess this is the first real adult digital native I've talked to rather than read on the web. Pretty much his whole holiday in Scotland is on his blog, along with a fair bit of content from
SETT I wonder if
Ewan recorded the round table as there was a huge mike on the table, if so I hope he will edit out anything I said.
Ewan turns out to be a digital native too programming a
Spectrum from the age of six.
Wednesday 21 September 2005 at 3:03 pm
Just watched
Ewan introduce the
MFLE at the
Scottish Learning Festival.
Great 15 minute power talk. I almost wish I was a modern forign language teacher.
The
MFLE looks like a great site for other folk too. White boards to blogs and back.
Wednesday 21 September 2005 at 2:27 pm
Andy Carvin was talking about blogs, podcasting Flickr etc at SETT (
Scottish Learning Festival).
Showed how fast things turn up at
http://www.technorati.com/. I wonder if this will
Andy coveredthe history of online community in about 45 minutes, and didn't leave many buzzwords unturned.
Great intro, I wish I had stepped up and asked a question or two.
Most exciting site he showed us
http://acroughcuts.com/.
...podcasting round table coming up very shortly....
Tuesday 20 September 2005 at 10:14 pm
As mentioned on the
Sandaig News page we have finished a new podcast for
Radio Sandaig. I have learnt a lot about podcasting, audacity and managing the creation. I've been especially impressed by the attitude and work of the children. As soon as we finished the show they are bursting with ideas for a new one for October, I am going to make a big effort to record more of the process here.
One thing that struck me was how little equipment you need for creating a podcast. A recorder of some sort and a computer.
Monday 19 September 2005 at 07:01 am
Found this via
Daring Firebal:
http://xmlnanny.com/ it is a xml checker for mac. The
new feed checks fine.
Sunday 18 September 2005 at 10:11 pm
We have been working on a new show for
Radio Sandaig. After much burning of midnight and lunchtime oil, it is pretty near finished.
Slightly more professional than previous shows, now with added background music. The Editing took an age, I did a fair bit of it at home this time and am beginning to come to grips with Audacity.
Spent most of Saturday morning tidying it up after the children had finished most of the editing on Friday.
Sunday has been spent exploring the
How To Publish a Podcast on the iTunes Music Store and working out how to make a suitable rss feed. I made a simple
SuperCard project to create podcast feeds, which taught me a good deal about them. The
new feed validates with scripting.com's validation form. also using
MagpieRSS to parse the rss feed to create the
new Radio Sandaig home page. To get everything I wanted from the feed (mainly the enclosure url) I had to get the
patched version of rss_parse.inc as described here
How to handle enclosures in Magpie.
So a busy day where I pushed my slight knowledge of
RSS and
PHP.
the new show should be on
Radio Sandaig on Tuesday.
Saturday 17 September 2005 at 09:55 am
Getting into blogging A new guide to blogging from the
Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE) at LTS, part of the
Scottish Schools Digital Network Mentions both
this place and the
Sandaig Otters as examples.
I think the children will be very pleased when I show them on Monday.
After getting over the excitement of incoming links I noticed the guide to
blogging is really good.
Hopefully we will have a few more classes blogging and them we can start children commenting back and forwards.
Monday 12 September 2005 at 8:27 pm
As the children
blogged we have a new podcast in production. I am hoping to do one a month this session. We got a lot of the recording done last week, but the two main presenters are off this week. As I really want it out on schedule I may step in and do some of the editing at home.
I have been in more command this time, the
last show, last session was nearly all organised and edited by the children. This session I hope to get to that point with a better sound quality and a more realistic amount of content (that one was nearly half and hour long, this time we are going to aim at 15 minutes).
I am already noticing a willingness by the children to give suggestions as to content and presentation to each other, especially the ones involved last year. Their use of voice and appreciation of audience has improved too. I am going to try a podcast myself, discussing podcasting with the crew soon.
Friday 09 September 2005 at 05:52 am
http://www.pocketmod.com/ might be useful for me, might be fun for class, maybe a wee learning log.
Monday 05 September 2005 at 8:03 pm
I was reading this entry
edublogs: Sleepless in Leith in
ewan's blog and spent a while writing a comment. Then I though I was probably just ranting rather than having a conversation (see
"All I do to you is talk talk") so I though I'd stick it here, where no one will find it:
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