Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
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Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
This audio file was orginally posted to AudioBoo(m) with the mobile app. It has been downloaded and posted here since audioboom no longer supports free accounts.
Internet Safety and Responsible Use Conference
Great conference, here is the official blog: ISRU Conference 2011 where I believe all the slides and video of the keynotes will appear in time. The tweets: http://www.tweetdoc.org/View/9984/ISRU11 and Flickr: The ISRU11 Pool
A very interesting day with lots of food for thought. I posted a couple of Boos when I got home.
And the second boo, apologies for the speed and ems
Raven
This audio file was orginally posted to AudioBoo(m) with the mobile app. It has been downloaded and posted here since audioboom no longer supports free accounts.
iPads and Glow
iPad stand by tim_d
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
I was pretty impressed with the iPad 2 which was launched this week. Some nice new features and the speed bumps especially in JavaScript sound good.
I’ve continued to test an iPad and this week I spent a wee bit of time using it to access glow. I’ve talked to a few pupils who access glow at home using an ipod touch, and have occasionally used my iPhone, but find it a bit of a strain on the eyes (The pupils I’ve talked to don’t seem to have the same problem).
On an iPad Glow works pretty well. The iPads limitation on now allowing file (picture) uploads in the browser is a bit of a draw back but a lot of the other feature are fine. Editing webparts works as well as it does on Safari on a mac. The text editor continues to frustrate me but I am resigned to avoiding it use by now.
I successfully posted to my glow blog: iPad Glow blogging without trouble. Again I could not upload photos, but it is easy to workaround using flickr, I used my flickr CC search toy which did the job and sorted the attribution.
The WYSIWYG editor did not work, but I was please to see that the html editor respected line breaks, adding paragraphs. typing <p> with an iPad is a bit slow.
I also tried using the iPad to edit a wiki page. Again WYSIWYG was turned off and this time there was no auto paragraphing. Again I could paste in the embed code for a flickr photo. The font size was a wee bit small for me, but would be fine for most youngsters.
What it would be nice to see would be support for the MetaWeblog API in glow blogs, this would allow the use of various apps to post to a glow blog. I guess it is hard to enable this due to the way glow accounts are matched to wordpress ones through shibboleth, if RM can manage this it would be make glow blogs a powerful tool for mobile learning.
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Recently Missed
I am having the devil of a job keeping up with things recently. My RSS reader is bloated and twitter is streaming past far too quickly for me to keep up. I am not spending enough time on twitter to keep up with the folk I know best and have just grasped at a couple of things in the flow that look really interesting.
purpos/ed
purpos/ed is:
a non-partisan, location-independent organization aiming to kickstart a debate around the question: What’s the purpose of education? With a 3-year plan, a series of campaigns, and a weekly newsletter we aim to empower people to get involved and make a difference in their neighbourhood, area and country.
and has started with a stream of 500 word blogs posts form all sorts of educators as of now there are 16 posts with more to come. Lots of interesting food for thought and I’ve not manage to read even half of the 8000 words published so far. The posts are published on the users own blogs, which is in some ways a pity as we cant read them all on one RSS feed (AFAIK).
Primary Blogging on the BBC
I caught this just after it had been on TV. some great publicity for blogging in the primary school. I should have noticed this as I have followed the blog provider John Sutton (hgjohn) on Twitter for a long time. luckly the video is on youtube and the event is well covered in The day the nation took notice of Primary Blogging!. I hope that title is true. Various folk have been pushing blogging in the classroom for a long time now, it would be nice for it to hit the consciousness of more teachers.
I wonder what else I’ve been missing…
Lone crow
ScotEduBlogs Update
Republished due to a wee bit of bother with the backend of my blog.
At the weekend Robert added a new feature to ScotsEduBlogs: ScotEduBlogs Professional
ScotsEduBlogs exists to help educational bloggers across Scotland to find each other and to talk to each other.
It has been created by members of the blogging community, and is kept up-to-date by its users (that means you!), who can add blogs and tag blogs.
It also allows anyone to keep up with what is being said across all Scottish educational blogs at a glance.
You alway could subscribe to a set of blogs via ScotsEduBlogs RSS feature, for example ScotEduBlogs tagged glowscotland or physics but these are RSS feeds. Now there is a page for professional blog posts, separate from class, pupil or teaching blogs. This could be used for cpd or just to keep an eye on other teacher/consultant/whatever blogs. If you visit SEB less frequently you will be able to see the ‘professional’ posts less chance of them being buried by class blog posts.
Recently with twitter coming to the fore as a way of keeping up with online community there have been new Scots Educational bloggers who have not added their blog to SEB now might be a good time to do so. If you do and you consider yourself an educational professional be sure to tag your blog Professional.
Glow Blogs
There has been an influx of new blogs since glow has added blogging to its toolset. Unfortunately the glow blogs rss feeds do not play nicely with ScotEdublogs. They don’t play with glows own xml web part either.
There is a workaround, if you use FeedBurner to republish your RSS feed you can use that feed in ScotEdublogs. Feedburner is a google service now, you need to have a gmail account. You visit Feedburner sign in and fill in your RSS feed address.
Your RSS url will be the url of your blog with /feed tacked on the end, for example my test glow blog’s url is:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/JohnJohnston/
So its RSS feed is
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/JohnJohnston/feed/
After I put it into Feedburner I get a feedburner URL for the feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/org/NCnY
This last I can use to add my Blog to ScotEduBlogs:
If you are a ScotsEduBlogger please think about adding your blog to ScotsEduBlogs and remember to tag it Professional if that cap fits.
ScotEdublogs
Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
This audio file was orginally posted to AudioBoo(m) with the mobile app. It has been downloaded and posted here since audioboom no longer supports free accounts.
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 contribute or modify content. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopaedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.
Examples of wikis edited by pupils( not glow ones):
Background on using wikis, blog posts by Neil Winton (Perth Acedemy):
Example of wikis used by teachers to share resources ( not glow ones):
Sample Glow Wiki with information on wikis which you are free to edit (glow logon required)
Wiki category of Glow Help blog
The Glow folk have started a Scotland Schools Wiki
“Over time we hope that this wiki will build into a ‘Domesday Book’ of schools in Scotland in the 21st century.”
Any glow user can add pages for their school and edit pages
Nice things about wikis:
- collaboration
- tracking of edits you can see you did what
- easy to roll back to previous version is someone makes a mistake.
Best thing about glow wikis: Much easier than glow pages to edit, think a Text Editor that works.