A while back I produced an aggregator for Tagged: elive2006 pulling together del.icio.us, technorati and flickr tags. I’ve spiced it up a little now switch from using the flickr RSS feed to using the Flickr api with phpFlickr.

This has been a lot of fun Flickr has incredible educational potential (check out David‘s recent posts) and the apis along with phpFlickr make using it a treat.

As of now there is not much at Tagged: teachmeet06 (this will change as more things get tagged teachmeet06), but the Tagged: elive2006 will give more of an idea of what is going on.

I used the Lightbox JS v2.0 javascript to display the images nicely when the wee ones are clicked.

It is amazing how you can pull all this stuff (rss, api, javascript…) without knowing a lot about any of them, just borrowing freely available tools.

Performance of the above pages may not be great, they are served from my livingroom not exactly Hitchhikr, but I am learning.

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via Tim Lauer: Flickr Export creator Fraser Speirs has a job teaching at Cedars School of Excellence just down the road. He is blogging at Teaching 2.0. A very interesting addition to the Scots Edu-blog world!

I’ve used the old free version of Flickr Export for a while and a useful appleScript for posting to del.icio.us by Mr Speirs so look forward to reading his blog.

Technorati Tags: scot-edu-blog

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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.

Technorati Tags: googlemaps , education sandaig DavidDMuir

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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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.

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TeachMeet06

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.

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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.