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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.

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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.

Masterclass blogs Feedreader.

it might be useful to d othis sort of thing to help manage a lot of children’s blogs.

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I just got home from three days in Stirling at the Masterclass New Technology event.

Ewan and John

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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.

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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:

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Communicate.06

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.

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Communicate.06

Links…

radio

blogs

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I’ve been keen to get the children in my class commenting on other blogs. This has be a bit hampered by WebSense, time, lack of pcs and my classroom organisation. We had a few folk off dancing today so I though I could use some language time for this today. Showed some children the Blakedown C of E Primary blog I just discovered and their entry on a day in life of year 5 got a few children to co-operate on a similar post A day in the life of p6 and then comment on the Blakedown blog .

I also had a few children blog about the Downs FM TV show.

I am trying to engineer a sense of connection between my class and children elsewhere and hope a little is better than nothing at all. Time consuming stuff though, 30 – 45 minutes for the children involved to get the job done. And we have not got round to posting the snow haiku and snow reports we wrote on Monday.

National Writing tests for the next couple of days, but I hope to get a bit more of this done soon. Hopefully the children will like Interactive Chatting Teddies as much as I do.

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Communicate.06 A nice thing about tags in a lot of web 2.0 stuff is the fact that they can be pulled together, pulled apart and re mixed.

tagged with Communicate.06 is a simple page that parse the RSS feeds that are tagged with communicate.06 from del.icio.us, technorati and flickr .

If you are going to/interested in Communicate.06 and you use any of these services you can tag stuff with communicate.06 and it will appear on the page. There is a load of services that do the same sort of thing (KickRSS and suprglu.com/ for instance) I’d guess Harnessing the Web will cover some of them.

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