{"id":2983,"date":"2015-06-03T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2015-06-03T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:06:18","slug":"signing-on-twp15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/signing-on-twp15\/","title":{"rendered":"Signing on to #twp15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2985\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/signing-on-twp15\/blogging_is\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/blogging_is.gif\" data-orig-size=\"599,159\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"blogging_is\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/blogging_is.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/blogging_is.gif\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2985\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/blogging_is.gif\" alt=\"blogging_is\" width=\"599\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fools rush in, foolish fools sign up at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/\">Teaching with WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an open online course on Teaching with WordPress, running June 1-26, 2015. Join us to talk about and experiment with, among other things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open education, open pedagogy and design<\/li>\n<li>WordPress as a highly customizable framework for teaching and learning<\/li>\n<li>examples of instructors and learners using WordPress sites in many different ways for multiple purposes<\/li>\n<li>plug ins, applications and approaches for creating, discussing, sharing and interacting with each other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Throughout the course, you\u2019ll be creating your own WordPress course site, so that by the end you\u2019ll have a beginning structure to build on with your learners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I get through 10% of the above I&#8217;ll be doing well. The course is organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/christinahendricks\">Christina Hendricks<\/a> who I&#8217;ve <em>met<\/em> on etmooc and ds106.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve not started a new blog for the course as I hope anything I post will be relevant to this blog (which I hope focuses on learning).<\/p>\n<p>The course is obviously based in higher ed, but I&#8217;ve learnt a lot fro reading HE blogs over the past few years\u00a0and I don&#8217;t think there are any of the learning objective that are not applicable to\u00a0primary and secondary education.<\/p>\n<p>The course has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\/blog-hub\/\">Blog Hub<\/a> where hopefully my post categorised as teachingWP will end up. (this aggregation of learners blogs to a course hub is something I am very excited about, having seen it in action a few times. I recently ran a 10 week <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/bloggingbootcamp\/\">blogging bootcamp<\/a> for Scottish schools using the same technique.<\/p>\n<h3>A Brief Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>For anyone who ended up here from a #twp15 tweet or the blog hub.<\/p>\n<p>I am a primary teacher by trade, currently working as an ict staff development officer in North Lanarkshire (121 primaries) and seconded to the Scottish Government as a <em>product owner<\/em> for Glow Blogs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\">Glow blogs<\/a> is a blogging system for Scottish schools. it consists of 33 instances of WordPress. More information on glow blogs on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/\">Help Blog<\/a>. I guess one of my goals for this course is to improve that help site.<\/p>\n<p>I started blogging with my pupils in Sandaig Primary on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/\">Sandaig otters<\/a>\u00a0in 2004 using pivot (not wordpress), and organised various other blogs.<\/p>\n<p>This blog started off on pivot in 2005 and I move to WordPress last year, although I used WP elsewhere for several sites. Two of the more interesting ones being <a href=\"http:\/\/scotedublogs.org\">ScotEdublogs<\/a>, an aggregation of Scots Educational Blogs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\">Edutalk<\/a>. I have a DS106 blog, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/\">106 drop in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My main technical excitements about blogging are RSS and syndication\/aggregation. 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