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Scottish Learning Festival

I am sitting at SETT talking to Heidi about podcasting and blogging, this is wee demo.

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.

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

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.

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.

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….

Found this via Daring Firebal: http://xmlnanny.com/ it is a xml checker for mac. The new feed checks fine.

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.