{"id":2425,"date":"2013-12-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2425"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:23:30","slug":"interesting-links-2013-12-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/interesting-links-2013-12-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links 2013-12-07"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading a lot about teaching code in schools and computational thinking recently, good to see an alternative view Why Pushing People to Code Will Widen the Gap Between Rich and Poor | Wired Opinion | Wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Public vs. Private \u2013 Should Student Work Be Public On the Web? | The Edublogger<\/a>, When I started blogging with my pupils, the whole point was to be public. Recently, I’ve been involved in setting up e-portfolios with hundreds of pupils and the idea we are missing a trick by making these private is always at the back of my mind. In North Lanarkshire, where I work, there has been a recent flourishing of use of glow blogs, but a lot of the public ones are written to by staff as an adjunct to their school website. I wonder if this will develop to more pupil publishers? I also notice that now blogging is much more widespread that many using them are not involved in the social aspect of blogging: commenting and reading other blogs. The are perhaps being used more for communication with parents and the local community? <\/p>\n

appear.in \u2013 one click video conversations<\/a> is one several sites that have popped up recently offering WebRTC<\/a> video conferencing in some browsers (Chrome, Firefox, opera). <\/p>\n

I’ve been doing a bit of iPad screencasting of late this is a good guide on how to do it. I use Airserver and screenflow rather than the applications Ben Rimes use but the process is the same, Ben’s scren cast is in a competition at the moment so if you want to help him win give his youtube the thumbs up. How To: Screen Record Your iPad – ScreenChamp Finalist 2013 – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is how to turn your smartphone into a digital microscope for just $10: DIY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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