{"id":260,"date":"2005-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=260"},"modified":"2005-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"edublogs-sleepless-in-leith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/edublogs-sleepless-in-leith\/","title":{"rendered":"edublogs: Sleepless in Leith"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading this entry edublogs: Sleepless in Leith<\/a> in ewan’s blog<\/a> and spent a while writing a comment. Then I though I was probably just ranting rather than having a conversation (see “All I do to you is talk talk”<\/a>) so I though I’d stick it here, where no one will find it:<\/p>\n

Hi Ewan,<\/p>\n

I read your blog in a browser, am suscribe in bloglines (twice I think) and also use netnewswire.<\/p>\n

I was surprised that as many as 1 in 10 blog readers use a feedreader, I’d think that is quite a high number. I use both, mostly Safari at the moment ( see this image<\/a>). I quite often find using a reader I spend a lot of time opening the blog in a browser anyway, sometimes it feels better for me to open a bunch of tabs and click through.<\/p>\n

I gave a blogging talk to a bunch of ict teachers (ones picked as innovators too) near the end of last session. Not even half had heard of blogging ( none<\/b> had heard of podcasting). I didn’t ask for a show of hands for feedreaders;-)<\/p>\n

Blogging to show blog power to the masses<\/em> will not work if the masses don’t read blogs. Showing teacher will not necessarily work either, the response could be:<\/p>\n

‘cool, but where will I get the time; time to read blogs, comment, think about it, set it up, organise the classroom, find I was reading this entry on time in a increasingly full timetable for the children to blog’. <\/p>\n

I don’t know about secondary but in a primary school these are real concerns. I know there are ways round and through them all too.<\/p>\n

I am fully convinced blogging is a good thing, but if I was trying to do it in the time I am paid for, no chance.<\/p>\n

Aside: Checking the UK based edubloggers directory<\/a>, there seems to be a lot more FE blogging than either primary or secondary why is that?<\/p>\n

IMO for blogging to succeed in more classrooms, we need: more networked computers (with 2 in my class it is hard to give children the time to read other childrens blogs); blogs setup ready to go; probably less blocking of link – photo – mp3 sharing sites or the replication of these services in a child safe area (SSDN?). <\/p>\n

The Edtech Coast to Coast<\/a> folk may be frustrated (I’ve not had the time to listen) but that is because they are at the bleading edge with a full toolkit but we need to be eased into blogging, the ideas from the tech-savey crowd are way ahead of most classroom practitioners, way too many buzzwords. <\/p>\n

In the longer run we will be ok, the next generation of teachers will be bloggers without thinking anything of it. Most of the Technorati<\/a> found links to our school name are mentions in ex-pupils live journals, they will be old enough to teach pretty soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading this entry edublogs: Sleepless in Leith in ewan’s blog and spent a while writing a comment. Then I though I was probably just ranting rather than having a conversation (see “All I do to you is talk talk”) so I though I’d stick it here, where no one will find it: Hi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4c","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}