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.
Ewan, David and I have been working with a bunch of Masterclass teachers, talking about blogs, podcasting, wikis etc.
We set up a Masterclass New Technology blog and the participants all set up there own http://edublogs.org blog.
I was delighted, if slightly green, to see James Farmer linking to one of the new blogs: pc pod.
Congratulations to the pc pod team.
I just had another flurry of comment spam, over 100 comments to delete on Friday night after school. They had arrived between me leaving school and arriving home, nothing offensive, but a waste of space.
So I upgraded the pivot black list extension 
to 0.9.3 and implemented the spam quiz, This adds a trivial question to the comment form.
And it seems to be working nicely:
I had a great day at Communicate.06, thanks to Ewan for inviting me (and for organising the whole thing etc. etc.)
Peter Ford gave a great keynote ending with a performance of Taylor Mali‘s poem http://www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=51 (MP3 of Taylor Mali reading the poem) I am sure Ewan had a mp3 of Peter reading on his blog, but I can’t find it.
Peter quoted me, which made me feel pretty good:
In the education timeline blogs have only been around for a millimeter or so. The possibilities are endless and many still to be discovered. It seems to me far to early to decide what a blog should or should not be used for. Certainly no one should be laying down rules just yet.
Modern Languages teachers seem pretty nice too, even though I don’t speak their language.
The thing that Peter said that interested me most was …every now and then be creative… .
As well as giving a really entertaining/educational keynote, he dotted lots of is and crossed the ts of using ict in an adventurous way, letting us know that it is ok to do just a bit.
There was also a group of student, who where associated with PIE recording video and audio very unobtrusively in the background. I guess they have be involved in quite a lot of creative ICT, they did an excellent job of providing a video to close the conference and a great example of well judged confidence when they were speaking (I hope some of that confidence comes from the creative use of ict).
The really great thing about how the conference was arranged was the built in extended support that will be available to the folk attending on the MFLE site which fits in well with Peter’s Why I am not a blogvangelist? post and Ewan’s busy schedule of getting into schools (example on his blog ) to do the podcasting business. I came away with the idea that the Modern Foreign Language teachers would really take this on.
