{"id":525,"date":"2006-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=525"},"modified":"2015-08-14T05:54:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T05:54:27","slug":"communicate-06-comments-and-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/communicate-06-comments-and-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicate.06: Comments and communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ewan<\/a> has invited me to be part of the Communicate.06 ICT organised by Scottish CILT,<\/a> in Stirling. I am going to be talking about podcasting and blogging with a bunch of other folk I am very keen to meet. <\/p>\n

I asked about preparing and Ewan told me just to post stuff here instead of making a preparation. I must admit this made me worry a bit. I like making presentations distracting myself from the problem of what to say by messing with the tech (I use SuperCard, flash or html rather than powerpoint so that I can get maximum distraction). This is a bit like using podcasting as stealth education<\/em> the children do not realise that they are doing language work, they are having too much fun.<\/p>\n

Anyway this is the first post for Communicate.06. <\/p>\n

At School on Friday’s I am released from my class to do ICT stuff around the school, podcasting, digital video, blogging. This is a wonderful opportunity. I usually do a class blog entry from a couple of classes, using a whiteboard and treating it as a bit of shared writing. The idea being to slowly introduce children and staff to blogging. Already one members of staff is posting with her class independently.<\/p>\n

Today I was blogging for the first time with one of our primary fours.<\/p>\n

We started with some of the children taking photos of some art work on the wall in there classroom choosing one on the white board and cropping it a bit. (I don’t expect 8 years olds to pick this up too quickly but, it is more fun and cpd for the class teacher.)<\/p>\n

We uploaded the picture to the blog, had a quick word about passwords and the responsibility of representing their school worldwide and did a bit of shared writing: Twin Castles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far so good, the children enjoyed themselves, were introduced to digital cameras, blogs and there was lots of participation in the writing.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day I was in primary five: blogging about ‘How to write a setting’<\/a>. <\/p>\n

At about 2 minutes to home-time we finished and posted the entry. A new comment caught my eye, Anita<\/a> from Slovenia had commented on the Twin Castles<\/a> entry.<\/p>\n

We had a quick read, got quite excited, and I popped over to primary four to share with them; they were nearly as excited as me;-)<\/p>\n

Half an hour after school I opened the entry again, to print a copy, and Stephanie from Primary four had posted a thank you comment to Anita<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some thoughts: <\/p>\n