Popped over to cpdinict where I was testing wordpress to find the image problem fixed.
Great news for Edu bloggers, no excuse now.
Did a wee Podcast test too which seems to work as well. Something slightly strange going on with the categories, I put the podcast test in the podcast category and it shows up there without links.
Edublogs or the guy behind it James Farmer has also set up learnerblogs.org free blogs for school students.
Ewan says I’ve written about 20,000 words on why students should blog, but the main aspect is audience.. Not sure there is much more to say. (welcome back to the Scottish Education Blogoshere)
I don’t often get a prize. Found this in my intray today.
Thanks David
Ning is a free online service – or Playground – for you to build and run your own social applications. Social apps let anyone match, transact, and communicate with other people.
Teaching Ideas > I.C.T. Ideas
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/podcasting.htm
Great overview of podcasting and why it is good practice:
It gives them a potential audience of thousands for their work.
It’s great for develop literacy skills (writing scripts, setting up interviews etc), allows them to develop and practise their speaking and listening skills, and they also learn some amazing ICT skills.
Podcasts can be interactive, and the audience can be invited to send their comments, giving valuable feedback to the children about their work.
I’ve found that making a podcast is also great for developing teamwork skills. The children always work together really well, as they’re always keen to make a great show.
From Mark Warner who’s class produce The Downs FM
podcast.
I did (looking for ones to add to Primary School Blogs made me a happy man, presumably only temporary, but I’ve got the screenshot
http://www.google.com/search?q=primary+school+blog
I wonder if the children will be as impressed?
Update November 2021: the screenshot was lost, but I retrieved the thumbnail from the internet archive.
Primary School Blogs I’ve started an aggregation of of Primary School blogs on Suprglu
I’ve set up Scotish Education Blogs on SuprGlu for some of the scot-edu-blog blogs.
I also found KickRSS which also allows you to pull feed together: scot-edu-blog :: KickRSS which pulls a few Scottish Education blogs together.
Not edublogsthough, KickRSS could not find the feed for some reason.
Just found iPod Video ? a far better audio recording device ? (ideal for student podcasting!) just need to find a couple of hundred quid.
for those interested in RSS this is a new tool to pull together various RSS feeds. SuprGlu
I gave it a quick try:
which displays a couple of my blogs my del.icio.us and flickr accounts and the school podcast, took about 2 minutes to setup.
Obviously this example is not much use, but I can imagine a time when you could connect together a set of photos links and blog posts into one resource for pupils? As you seem to be able to pass SuprGlu any rss feed you could provide a particular category of photos from flickr, tags from del.icio.us etc.
I am going to have to wait until I’ve a few more than 2 internet connected computers in my class before we could really exploit this. I must admit internet research is not a frequent part of individuals in my classes daily practice. All together on the whiteboard, lets google this is more like it.
