A while back when posterous shut up shop we took edutalk.cc and made it a wordpress site. I blogged some of the process EDUtalk Setup – Wordpress Tech Notes. This weekend I’ve been trying to improve the workflow for the live shows we do as part of the site. Previously we have a page which…
A little blue sky thinking. For the last few weeks I’ve been kicking the tyres of the new MS 365 glow. It is not without its teething problems, although these do seem to be getting found and fixed. Education Scotland seem confident that everything will get sorted but we have not had much indication of…
I’ve not posted anything about the Scottish Learning Festival or the associated TeachMeet here. I did do a quick audio review of my two days SLF 2013 on EDUtalk and am starting to post tmslf2013 audio at EDUtalk too. One of the three things I talked about in my 7 minutes at teachmeet was the…
Summary (TL:DR) ScotEduBlogs is a site with aggregates Scottish Educational Blogs. This allows one to keep up with many blogs in one place. ScotEduBlogs is being redeveloped, simplified and streamlined, repositioning to be a hub of educators blogs (which reflects its original use). I’d appreciate anyone interested looking at the new site, http://scotedublogs.org (temporary url)…
The Teach the Web Week 2 is about Connected Learning in Practice Last week we explored “Making as Learning”. We’re proponents of the idea that people learn best through making, but we also believe that making and learning are social activities. It’s a bit like the old idiom “If a tree falls in the forest…
These are some technical notes on some of the changes I’ve made to the standard Wordpress site for EDUtalk, I am not sure if they are of much interest to anyone but myself, but writing them up here will, 1. get them clear in my mind, and 2. provide a reference.The site is running on…
A while back we heard that posterous was shutting down. This was quite bad news for EDUtalk, we had a lot invested (time and files not money) in our posterous site. I had a look at alternatives, Posterous to What? and decided on a way forward EDUtalk, post posterous part 1. Since then we have been beavering…
Even though it was expected I was pretty dismayed when posterous announced that it was shutting down.Last week I blogged about possible ways forward and as I did so a couple of possible solutions appeared: Posthaven is the safe place for all your posts forever from some of the development team at posterous a site…
Woke up this morning to a barrage of tweets about Posterous turning off on April 30.We use posterous for EDUtalk and I have a few other posterous blogs too.This is not too unexpected, I bloged about it a couple of times, Posterous Worries and More Posterous Worries but it is still disappointing, who doesn’t like…
MOOC! by AJC1 Attribution-ShareAlike License A bit before Christmas I signed up for #ETMOOC: #etmooc, an open, online experience that is designed to facilitate & nurture conversations around the thoughtful integration of educational technology & media in teaching and learning. from: Introduction to #etmooc | #ETMOOC What is a MOOC A massive open online course…
