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A very interesting read: How a return to blogs and wikis could benefit teachers | Tes<\/a><\/p>\n

Unlike social media, these older content-creation tools did not restrict the length of contributions or steal your attention every waking moment with incessant dopamine-releasing notifications. Instead, they allowed developing thoughts to be published, ideas shared and shaped, links made to like-minded thinkers, and documents to be written collaboratively – the very values cherished by both luminaries of the Scottish Enlightenment and the creator of the web.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And<\/p>\n

What was missing in 2010 was any sort of directory: a working record<\/strong> 1<\/sup><\/a> of the many flowering blogs, themes and ideas. A \u201cScotsEdu\u201d wiki would quickly establish this, editable by all, allowing for information to be updated quickly and providing a map for educators, linking ideas, papers and research.<\/p>\n

In short, it would provide a one-stop shop to support an ongoing national discussion about Scottish education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I saw this article via twitter after a link was tweeted by Ollie Bray. Ironically Ollie was once a very prolific Scottish educational blogger.<\/p>\n

A working record<\/h3>\n

A working record is not missing, but perhaps un-noticed. ScotEduBlogs<\/a> has a record of posts going back to 2006<\/a>!<\/p>\n

ScotEduBlogs<\/a> goes back to a Wiki started by Ewan McIntosh<\/a> on Wikispaces. When the list of blogs became a bit to long to follow by clicking links, we 2<\/sup><\/a> created ScotEduBlogs<\/a> . At first it consisted of a aggregation of posts from across Scotland and a supporting Wiki. Over the years it has shrunk to an aggregation site now maintained, in a fairly lax fashion, by myself.<\/p>\n

The site started aggregating class & teacher blogs. After the move to WordPress I reduced it to ‘professional’ blogs. It had gained some higher education blogs, but the frequency of posts has dropped.<\/p>\n

The article made me visit the backend of SEB for the first time in a while. Much to my embarrassment I found a request to join by the TES article’s author Andrew McLaughlin. I’ve now added his blog<\/a>. The form on the site has failed to send me an email. I added a link to email me requests, which should do as a stopgap.<\/p>\n

I took a moment to improve the menus on mobile. \u00a0I also set up a mastodon account<\/a> for SEB so that people can get the link to new activity in their mastodon account in the same way as they could follow the twitter account<\/a>. Given the current twitter woes, I hope the mastodon account will be useful.<\/p>\n

It might be time for a revival of ScotEduBlogs. I would be delighted to add more sites. I’d also be interested in any ideas for improving the site<\/p>\n

Personally I rarely visit the SEB site, I subscribe to its RSS Feed in my feed reader. This gives me all the news from all the blogs in SEB without having to subscribe to them all individually.<\/p>\n

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  1. <\/a> My emphasis ↩<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. <\/a> The original site was created by Robert Jones along with Pete Liddle, I just made suggestions. ↩<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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