I’d kind of forgotten about suprglu.com/ and My SuprGlu page. I also keep forgetting to use coComments .
I’ve just found that coComments provide an RSS feed and added that to my supraglu hopefully I’ll start using this stuff in a more disciplined way soon.
So yesterday I was writing I would be nice to have some sort of comment enhanced podcast I forgot about odeo, today I found a wee hack to do this:
So you can send me a message.
I also found Open Source Flash – red5 an open source server that cam receive video/audio/data from a flash client and either save or rebroadcast that content. It is in beta but looks like a much cheaper alternative to Flash Media Server, and if is easy I might even manage to install it at home as red5 looks like it might run on a mac. This would provide a way to record on a web page and make something like BubbleShare but would be passed by authority web blocking. I can think of a few wonderful ideas for collaboration between schools if we could customise this sort of stuff.
Anyway it looks like some interesting things could be done here, given a bit of time and knowledge.
I’ve added an odeo button to Radio Sandaig, hopefully we will get some audio feedback.
Ewan has published a podcast of the Mark Prensky in Shropshire: Keynote.
About an hour long so I’ve not actually finished listening to it (2 walks to the shops down one to go). It is interesting listening.
I’ve managed to avoid Mr Prensky, missed his seminar at SETT and I think the games tag put me off. I’ve spent about 5 minutes playing tetris. Of course once I listened for a moment it is much more interesting (to me) than games. What he seems (to me) to be talking about is not games but playing.
I an all for that some folks play with World of Warcraft others SuperCard, html or PHP.
I am quite interested in the digital native vs digital immigrant idea although I am not sure if the natives are really all that far ahead. Prensky gave the illustration; that to find out about Shropshire; he would grab an atlas. Not sure I’d believe that one, my mum would google it
The other idea that is often missing is The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet, only half of my class had internet access at home. Lots of them have PS2s etc but I am not sure of how many of the exciting things they do with them. I ask them about network play and the tell me the PS2 does it but they have not tried it. They don’t look as curious as Prensky seem to think.
He also talk about how children demand engagement, which seems right, but I am not sure about the idea that children are spending they time in a more engaged way than in the past. From Glasgow to Glencoe there seems to be plenty of unengaged kids hanging round outside shops.
The other thing listen to this podcast made me think about was listening to podcasts. I think there were some visual jokes in the presentation, but that didn’t bother me too much, I think the slides will appear sometime. I do find ordering my thoughts hard. It is harder to stop and think for a bit. It is hard to remember quotes etc. I am sure I had a couple of brilliant ideas while listening, but I forgot them.
It would be nice to have some sort of comment enhanced podcast: listen, pause record comment, listen. Maybe the next ipod will link voice recording in a clever way. I am not sure of the license for the podcast, but given time and some creative commons, folk could remix and repost ideas filled podcast. Then I’d really need to go to the shops more often.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.
My favourite bit is this:
Might be a reason to justify having a macs in Glasgow.
Created in a couple of minutes, not sure about access and deletion of records. Some sort of graph would be nice.
it also seems to default to showing 100 records, so if folk can add records to this, and I can’t figure out how to limit the iframe above to show 10 records it is going to fill this page up. Feel free to add a record or two and try this out. I’ll replace it with a screenshot if it gets out of hand.
I’ve edited the iframe to limit the height. I seem to be able to side scroll with my mousewheel here, but it might be bet to have a look in single entry view. or at the zohocreator page.
Talking to Glenise today about a possible article for Teaching Scotland the magazine of the GTC, and trying to think of how all the web 2.0 stuff relates to the real world of teaching.
A lot of the Edu Tech gurus talk about a revolution in teaching that they see as necessary to equip children for the coming century.
I am coming round to seeing blogging and podcasting as just an extension of normal primary school practice.
Blogging is just a Classroom Display with a bigger audience. We are always talking about making things real for children, giving a purpose, blogging and podcasting do that.
Primary children frequently present knowledge to their peers often in a school Assembly, podcasting is a extension of this. More and more I am seeing blogging and podcasting as a small extension to normal good practice rather than a revolution. Blogging a discussion as way of consolidating knowledge is not too far removed from the same activity with a big bit of paper. Publishing a bit of writing on the web is just using an open classroom wall.
Web 2.0 seems a lot more accessible and teacher friendly now and we still might help equip our pupils for the coming century.
I added these to my del.icio.us links today.
Box.net Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, RSS Sharing, Access Documents & Files Anywhere, Backup Data, Share Files. Looks like it could be used for podcasting and storing video. Found Box.net through netvibes a portal site that can pull together feeds, and other net services on one customisable page. I registered a while back and rediscovered it today, seems to work in safari now.
Finally Treehugger: Make Your Own SUV Ad Holiday fair, Chevy ask the net to remix its adverts for a SUV, some nice green responses.
Found these early this morning spent the rest of the day recovering for a Hard Drive problem on my box.
Eventually fitted a new HD and restored a backup. SuperDuper! saved my bacon. I’ve noticed this sort of problem happens during holidays rather than term time which I suppose is a good thing.
Lazybase via Tim Lauer. Looks like a simple online editable database. I wonder how much we could do with this in class? I wonder if we could cover some of the ict curriculum with this rather than a desktop app?
You can display a database in you own website very simply:
When you create a database you get 2 urls, one to edit and one to view the database.
You seem to be able to view graphs comparing fields, but I’ve not figured out how to do that yet. And I can’t find the docs.
tim’s say it is similar to Zoho Creator and Dabble DB so I’ll have to check those out sometime too.
After the Masterclass New Technology course last week I’d like to follow the new blogs. To make this a little easier I made an RSS Mix of all the feeds. I’ve added it to my feedreader and created a webpage to display it using magpierss-0.7.
The feeds were first run through rssmix.com to combine into one rss feed.
it might be useful to d othis sort of thing to help manage a lot of children’s blogs.
I just got home from three days in Stirling at the Masterclass New Technology event.
Not really processed it, but I had a pretty good time. In the end the folk attending produced a pile of resources in a very short space of time: Final Presentation, all dipped their toes in the blog water, most podcasted and there was a couple of wikis started. They even kept their sense of humour under a barrage of technical vocabulary.
The Next Steps the participants posted look great.
