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Started a new session today, and got my primary six class down to blogging straight away on A bigger Sandaig and Class Rules I am hoping to set up a scribe system first in my class and them in others this session.

The ICT Suite is moving on:

The guys from Mitel came in at the weekend and configured all the PCs that came over from Barlanark. They also told me how to wire up the connection to my room on a temporary basis, hence the blogging. I am beginning to get my head round a few ideas for extending the Sandaig media empire, turning more work over to the children.

A quick test of the new metaweblog.php with applescript.

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I am trying Flock again, since a new version of the metaweblog file
I got on thepivot forum

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I’ve just checked out Glow which is the new name for SSND. There is a Glow: the movie (19 minutes) to introduce teachers to SSDN Glow. Some interesting stuff wrapped in a ‘wee drama’. took a bit too long to get it’s message across. There is a transcript too:

GLORIA

Who are you?

A glowing hand reaches in and beats her to it. Gloria looks up to see the GATEKEEPER – a handsome man in a white suit who appears to glow. She jumps back in shock.

hmm.

I think we could have a laugh watching it in an inservice.

Strangely enough the Mac Version QuickTime movie: Glow: the movie (high speed) didn’t work on my my mac, just opened QT player which showed an endless connecting message. The Windows Media video: Glow: the movie opened fine using Quicktime in safari (I’ve got flip4Mac installed) .

If this is what we are going to get it looks pretty ambitious with a good toolset. All sorts of collaborating and content.

I was please to see a wee RSS icon floating by on the screen, I wonder if glow will allow the publishing and pulling of rss to the www or just within glow.

 

Also the words after school club video podcasting on another screen.

The mention of ‘glowgraphics’ (I think) sounded interesting as does the Intellectual property page at LTS.

The ssdn would seem to solve (in school at least) the bandwidth problem, but I wonder how powerful a class pc needs to be to see mutli user video chat?

I also worry about the idea of pupils connecting from home, the digital divide is still a problem in some areas of Scotland.

In the example the wee girl was online in her bedroom out of the parental line of sight, maybe she should have had a bed made up in the living room and her dad could have kept an eye on her while he did the ironing

I am also curious to see how open to the rest of the world the ssdn glow will be, will we be able to pull in content from outside glow, rss, flickr photos etc? Will we need to? If it is closed will it make Scotland insular, or could we bring in international partners?

Andrew is blogging glow too.

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Via EduBlog Insights: Eduflickr.com a proposal to get round the fact that flickr is blocked in many schools. Sounds great. I was chatting to Ewan the other day and proposed that someone might just pull down filter and repurpose all the creative commons photos on flickr, this is a bit more practical.

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There is a new version of blogger out in Beta: http://beta.blogger.com/.

I grabbed an account and there seems to be quite a few useful features

Got a couple of minor issues so far.

One is that quotes in the comments seem to be escaped, I think i could fix that with this patch from the pivot forum but it seems easier to wait until pivot 1.30.2 is out.

The second problem was pointed out by Andrew Brown, pivot now has stronger spam protection, and redirects possible spammers to http://spammerbegone.com which is possible not the best place for children who forget to answer the silly question to be directed.

I’ve fixed that by setting the redirect to http://127.0.0.1/ which should be less offensive.

I had a quick trawl through the spam log to see if I could find Andrew’s message, I didn’t but I could see 12 spam messages trapped in the last half hour.

I know that I’ve had a lot more at times, but I wonder what this says about site stats, do they include all the spam messages. If you think your blog is getting 100s of hits a day they might be the wrong flavour of hits?