I’ve been busy blogging on the Sandaig De Rank Blog for the last two days, we had a wonderful time, blogging, making comics, podcasting and video conferencing.

The podcast should be ready by Sunday, and hopefully I’ll have time to gather my thoughs and put them here. In the meantime please check the Sandaig De Rank Blog and the links there to photo galleries and Comic Life strips.

Update (Saturday 18 February):

A quick links list in addition to the posts on Sandaig – De Rank

Assendelft comic

Assendelft gallery

Westzaan Comic Life cartoon

Gallery of Westzaan photos

Podcast coming tomorrow. A comic life trip of our trip is in the works too.

At the end of a busy, busy day.

We had a great time at De Rank Westzann, just about finishedthe first half of the De Rank podcast. If things g oas well tomorrow at the other part of De Rank School: Assendelft the finished podcast should be on Radio Sandaig at the weekend.

The children were great recording in both Dutch and English. We had time for a video confrence with Sandaig and made a comic life cartoon of the day. I should really think about the experence, but I am going to the pub!

I’ve played a bit more with coComment nice touches are the RSS feeds of your comments and a JavaScript to include your comments on a blog or web page. The RSS seems a bit quicker than the javascript at the moment.

coComment doesn’t seem to work on Manila blogs or Ewan’s although TypePad is supposed to be supported.

Once the speed and support for loads of blogs is worked out this could be a real timesaver.

Later in February I am going along with a colleague form School to our partner school in the Netherlands: De Rank.

I am hoping to get them to record a podcast which we will publish on our site, in fact two podcasts. De Rank is a school on two sites Assendelft and Westzaan.

Of course I don’t speak any Dutch but the teachers there speak pretty good English, so I think we will get by. I’ve started by blogging some instructions on the Sandaig – De Rank blog here: Sandaig Teachers visit .

I hope to enthuse the De Rank children about blogging too, and to blog the trip for the sandaig children to read.

Some children in primary six have just finished a small project with Comic Life. Back To the Victorian Times using photos taken on our trip to Scotland Street School Museum.

The children really loved Comic Life. I wish we had more copies. It takes all the difficulty in creating a beautiful comic strip leaving them to think about what to show and stay. We made the simplest comic possible, Comic Life. has lots more features and possibilities.

Playing with scotedublogs a bit, and I noticed there are some nice rss feeds avalible, for example Changes and comments on scotedublogs.

Looks like there some other nice thing, I am off to the sandbox.

The only things that might hinder using wikispaces in class are the google adds on every page and perhaps websense.

I wonder if there is a simple php wiki that doesn’t need a database?

Update

Free Wikispaces for Teachers

Just websense to test tomorrow.

Ewan has set up a scotedublogs wiki. Its aim is to create a directory of all the Scottish educational blogs that have been started.

Sounds good, I’ve added this blog and Sandaig Otters.