I went along to the High School of Glasgow this evening for TeachMeet Tablet 2. Work and traffic conspired to make me pretty late and I had missed the first set of presentations, arriving in time for the round tables. At the last minute I had volunteered to organise one of these, on workflow, handing […]
I was hoping to catch up with the Webmaker teachtheweb mooc and get some DS106ing done this weekend, but I got carried away hoisting a jolly rodger. Almost two years ago I had a go at getting a PirateBox going. A PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device. Simply turn it on […]
Grain Tower by Alan Denney Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License At work we have an occasionally used glow blog, ICT. I am trying to post there more regularly. This week I used to to post a couple of sets of useful links. iPad Sharing We have been running a lot of ipad twilights, mostly introductions, but some on […]
There seems to be two main components in ds106, one is a freeflow imagination and a willingness to follow ideas. Assignments seem to spring for the participants this one from Yamboat – Lisa’s ds106 experiment. Although some of this stuff seems to be very light hearted, I was struct this morning how another one Fantasy […]
I am wondering if folk would donate a few quid for a TeachMeet PirateBox? 29 August: I just got to £60 in promises. I’ve ordered the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH wireless router. now hoping that I can get it working I’d noticed Alan Levine blogging about StoryBox and even donated a file in after this post: StoryBox […]
I’ve taken a set of scissors to collect the copyright section of the terms of service for many popular services below to compare. Many have quite similar language to TwitPic; others foreswear all rights. via boingboing.net All Your Pics Are Belong to Us: at image hosting services, Terms and Conditions always apply – Boing Boing […]
I saw a tweet mentioning me and the Flickr Search and Stamp for the iPod touch project on Friday. Clicking the link took me to Searching for CC images – SHea iPod Touch Project a post on Ian Guest’s posterous about: a year long project between two schools, one in the London area and the […]
As a bit of a google maps enthusiast I love Tom Barrett’s Maths Maps ideas. It looks to me like a nice way to show some ‘real’ application of maths in an engaging way. I am still supporting/interfering with an ipod touch project (site gone but not forgotten on the Internet archive). This gave me […]
I’ve occasionally blogged about my use of video in the classroom here before but I thought it might be worth pulling some of the ways I’ve used it together into a more theoretical approach than my usual ‘get excited, try stuff, fall over, pick myself up and make it work’ way of working with technology. […]
On Thursday I went over for a holiday visit to Lourdes Secondary School to visit Lori Ramsay. At the last Glasgow Masterclass meeting Lori had presented a tantalising view of The Mothership which seemed to involve enterprise, podcasting and music. Wendy from Edict invited me to get in touch with Lori to find out more […]
