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.
