I,ve been reading CogDogBlog for a while but I must have missed More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing With Weblogs which was a presentation for the New Media Consortium 2005 Summer Conference.At communicate06 Peter Ford used wordpress as a presentation tool, but the Cat Diaries takes this a lot further, the Blogger Presenter Slide shows how, css magic.Technorati Tags: cogdogblog, blogger, education, css, blogging
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After seeing David‘s Ardrossan Childhood Memory Map using flickr and seeing his flickr inspiration I’ve been working on my Google Maps Experiment again, this one is a memory map of our holiday last year. It would have been a bit more interesting if my LaCie external drive with all my photos had not died.
Or look at a larger version.
I had a try with the maps at school, but my javascript skills (well lack of skill) had ensured that it only worked on safari and firefox. I’ve now fixed it so that it works on IE (and therefore in school). I need to clean up the editing interface (and remove a ton of debugging alerts) but I hope to do that over the next few weeks. You can still try it out if you like.
The LaCie mentioned above was my backup drive for space reasons I had moved my iPhoto library onto it too.
BTW if you’ve not looked at David’s Flickr Posts (and this one and more) you should, a huge set of ideas and resources.
Following my lilina experiment I passed the same OPML file to xFruits and it seems to aggregate the feeds: scot edu blogs 1, looks like there is a bit to explore here xFruits does various things with rss feeds including conversion to pdf. I am not sure why you would want a pdf of a rss feed, but the app will also convert rss to web and something for a mobile phone.
Technorati Tags: rss, opml, scotedublogs, xfruits
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Ewan was talking about what to do with your blog in the summer. Well i am not going away so I’ve a few things line up to do:
I am working on a site for David which will end up here I am quite happy about how it is going and seem to be learning a little MySQL.
I am also going to be organising blogs for the primary schools in my cluster, but I’ll leave that until August. Meanwhile I am going to try and fix my google maps experiment and play with Supercard so that I can post on my other blog. Links broken
Away from the box, I’ll go some walks, take more time to cook than usual, play some tai chi and do something on Jenny’s allotment. It is hard being a teacher some time
For the aforementioned TeachMeet06 I noticed that Ewan is using teachmeet06 as a tag on flickr photos tagged with teachmeet06. Gordon is tagging his blog posts teachmeet06 so here is a wee aggregation: tagged with teachmeet06 which will pick up del.icio.us tags too. If you are blogging about TeachMeet please join in the fun.
Learn something new, be amazed, amused and enthused. This is an informal gathering of those curious about technologies.
Anyone can share cool ideas they have or great ideas they’ve triallled in their classrooms. Join us in person or via Skype.
We want things that have succeeded and which have failed. Whatever it takes to further the knowledge of the education community.
I’ve tried lots of ways to read and keep up with blogs, I mostly use Vienna a desktop aggregator at the moment because it is free and has appleScript support, which allows some simple recycling of information (example).
I’ve tried netvibes, suprglu, home portals and a host of others.
But the one I really like is lilina: this example gives me the postings from 30 odd Scots Edu Blogs sorted by date, I know a few of the other solutions are supposed to do this, but they do not seem to get it quite right, bunching posts from one blog together rather than splitting them mixing them with the others and time sorting them.
The example is a bit slow, but it is running of a machine in my house which is a fairly amateurish setup. It is also missing all the edublogs.org blogs as edublogs.org was having a bit of trouble with bloglines yesterday, ironically this problem was caused by bloglines. I’ll add them later if this looks like being useful.
Hopefully Scots Edu Blog Daily lilina might mature into a useful Scot-Edu-blog tool.
Ewan’s Post pointing to Stephen Heppell’s idea for school TV got me thinking about video blogging. I’ve also had some problems with quicktime files on the site (due to my lazy linking straight to the media). so I’ve been looking for some vblog code and found embedthevideo.com which seems to do the trick, click on the image to play the movie in a new window or direct link. I’ve updated the Glencoe Movies page to use this code and guess I should do the Dream Dragon if I have time.
I’d appreciate comments if this doesn’t work for anyone. The movie is on archive.org so is slower than the Glencoe Movies.
Via Tim Lauer zohoshow is a new addition to the Zoho Office Suite. An nnline tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations.
I had a quick try redoing the first few slides from an old presentation: Weblogging and Podcasting at Sandaig a S5 Slide Show to Weblogging and Podcasting at Sandaig (ZoHo Show). The process seems quite simple, not as powerful as S5, but another handy addition to the Web 2.0 toolset.
I don’t present much, but on the last couple of occasions, I’ve just used Safari with a load of tabs open, a couple of local pages for the intro and outro slides. If you are talking and showing examples of blogs, pods etc, this seems agood enough way to do it.
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Draft MOODLE Course on Blogging from Andy in Aberdeen.I was delighted that Sandaig got some link love, but apart from that this looks like a great intro to blogging for Scottish(or elsewhere) teachers.This is a step by step guide to educational blogging using mainly Scottish examples.The steps are set out in a clear and well ordered way that would allow any teacher to get the idea of educational blogging and get started blogging.In andy’s hands Moodle looks like a great tool for online cpd.
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