Free Video Clips/ Another one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/calc/radio1/index.shtml

For the first time in our history the BBC is opening its video archives to the UK public. Download nearly 100 clips especially chosen with VJ’s in mind.

Could be useful.

I’ve been putting together a unit on blogging for editc and gathered a fair number of links, which are here. (they are also in my bookmarks, furl and del.icio.us links). I am finding it quite hard to decide where to keep all of this stuff in an organised fashion.

Anyway here are the links…

General Research

• the Blog entry in wikipedia gives an excellent overview of blogging.
• the UK Edbloggers directory, mostly FE at the moment.
• EdBlogger Praxis Find Examples of Educator Blogs Online. Participate and comment.

Teacher Educator Blogs

• edu.blogs.com Ewan McIntosh shows how blogs and podcasts aren’t just a gimmick: they can be used to provide powerful learning in Scottish schools.
• edcompblog random thoughts about Educational Computing from a lecturer at Jordanhill, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow
• weblogg-ed.commaintained by Will Richardson, blogvangelist: site is dedicated to discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, audiocasts and other Read/Write Web related technologies in the K-12 realm.
• blog of David Warlick Educational technologist.
• Educational Weblogs, numerous links and resources all about educational weblogs and best practice examples.
• edublogs.org is a no-profit adventure into providing free WordPress blogs and hosting for teachers, students, researchers, librarians, writers and anyone who is interested in or working in education. May be a good place to get a free blog.
• anne.teachesme blogvangelist
• Alan November?s blog.
• ?Reflections of a Techie

School and class Blogs

• mgsonline

  Musselburgh Grammar School?s collection of blogs. Including virtual school trips, podcasts, the school council online and all sorts of innovative content.

• Sandaig Otters – The Weblog of Sandaig Primary School in Glasgow Sandaig Primary School Glasgow.
• Mr. Wright’s Class Mr Wright?s 3rd Grade Class, USA class blog.
• Room 208 Room 208, is a blog for a grade 3-4 in the USA, where individual children have their own blogs. The children also produce a regular podcast (audio blog).
• Mr.McGaughey’s Grade 2 Class Mr. McGaughey’s

  Grade 2 Class blog in the USA.

Other Blogs

• edugadget blog about ?interesting technologies that could be used in the classroom.?
• SQAComputing blog the web log of computing staff within the scottish qualifications authority.

Here is another links collector bookmarking thing:

http://digg.com/

Just added the Sandaig Otters to this UK based edubloggers directory .

Then spent a hour or so following links to various interesting things:

Pebble Blogging app (Java/tomcat)

earth-to-blogger

britcast wiki Uk Podcasting

edTechUK Josie Fraser who started the CamabanWiki

And many more blogs, not much in the primary school area, (except for our pals at Berkhamsted Collegiate Prep School) lots of tech from FE. Problem for teacher is the volume of information out there and the time need to absorb it, my head is spinning.

Just noticed a nice implimentation of Tag Clouds on

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?tc=true, clicking the tag clouds graphic re-opens the main blog page with tag coulds at the top.

I’ve just added a Tag Cloud from: http://www.tagcloud.com/ to the left of this blog.

I am going to be using this blog to play with some blog tech over the summer holidays.

TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag’s link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.