{"id":1643,"date":"2008-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1643"},"modified":"2008-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"starting-to-get-things-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/starting-to-get-things-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting to get things moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/images\/2008-01-25_otters_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Otters Blog\" height=\"487\" width=\"125\" style=\"float:left;margin:4px\"><\/p>\n<p>A while ago I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=1747&#038;w=john_johnston\" title=\"Permanent link to entry 'Once a week, time permitting'\">moaning about not managing to get the kids blogging<\/a>, this sessions class are a very different bunch than last years and I&#8217;ve been struggling to get them posting to the blog regularly enough to get familiar with the tools. <\/p>\n<p>The answer turns our to be, same as last session, to get the children to organise the rota, two children organise the random selection of a couple of others to choose what to blog about, take photos, and blog the next day (I download the photos before school).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/radio_sandaig\/index.php\" title=\"Radio Sandaig\">Radio Sandaig<\/a> has also been less than regular in its output. I&#8217;ve been trying to organise it by getting children from 4 classes to write and record segments, as teachers and children are busier than ever, it is getting harder and harder to find the time. Last session I was out of class teaching ict across the school and could make some time, this session I am back in class and have been using my NCC time. It was not enough, especially as the children had to  write in their own time at home. This month I think I&#8217;ve solved the problem, on Thursdays I am having a <strong>Radio Sandaig Working Lunch<\/strong> this involves opening our media room up and letting the children write. We probably now have too much material. Interestingly this session I have more children wanting to write about outside school activities, mostly TV and movie reviews, than class work, I guess this is because they feel more ownership of their segments. <\/p>\n<p>Next session I think I&#8217;ll take the podcast back inside my own class and develop it as a talking, listening and reflection tool as part of our language and pse program.<\/p>\n<p>So despite a few frustrations (mostly with tools I&#8217;d love to use being unavailable for technical reasons or filtered out) I am feeling pretty positive about using &#8216;social media&#8217; and online tools. I&#8217;ve also got a nice new project to unveil soon and a couple of interesting ideas (well interesting to me anyway) to blog about, more frequent posting ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"thetags\" style=\"display:none\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">blogging<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=blogging' title='Entries tagged with: blogging'>blogging<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/classroom\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">classroom<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=classroom' title='Entries tagged with: classroom'>classroom<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/podcasting\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">podcasting<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=podcasting' title='Entries tagged with: podcasting'>podcasting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sandaig\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">sandaig<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=sandaig' title='Entries tagged with: sandaig'>sandaig<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macromates.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/images\/2006-08-26_blogged_from_tm.png\" alt=\"Blogged from tm\" height=\"33\" width=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I was moaning about not managing to get the kids blogging, this sessions class are a very different bunch than last years and I&#8217;ve been struggling to get them posting to the blog regularly enough to get familiar with the tools. 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