Using magpierss-0.7 to pull together the Masterclass blogs.
The feeds were first run through rssmix.com to combine into one rss feed, the we use magpierss-0.7 to take that feed and produce this webpage.
I’ve just noticed that the last speaker of “Bo”, a language that used to exist in the Andaman Islands, has died. What struck me particularly about the report was the sentence “Boa Sr spent the last few years of her life unable to converse with anyone in her mother tongue.” That’s a very poignant thought. [...]
November 26th saw a new innovation for virtual worlds. Some students who are distance learners were graduating, but were unable to come to the ceremony – Fiona Littleton, working with colleagues in informatics, created the first Second Life graduation held in parallel with McEwan Hall graduation. 4 MSc graduates graduated in Second Life with 2 [...]
OK so the blog is looking a bit dismal again, but at least this time I’ve got a fairly water-tight excuse – ended up in hospital at the beginning of October, finally got diagnosed with viral labyrinthitis, and still off work (yikes!) and finding out for the first time in my life what I’m supposed [...]
I headed in to Edinburgh today, which is unusual for me on a Saturday, but there was a bike rally on and I thought I’d show some support. Although this wasn’t an SMC event, several SMC members turned up to support the general biking community (in particular, Edinburgh bikers and those who, like myself, commute [...]
At the beginning of August I attended a really stimulating PALA conference (I have to add that I’ve never yet been to an un-stimulating PALA conference) and my ego was thoroughly boosted by people actually coming to my presentation (even though it was on the last slot of the last day …). I’m still working [...]
It’s not often that you meet people who just seem to be at the epitome of humankind … but David Crystal is currently my favourite person. Here are some reasons: he’s clever with wordshe’s written lots of books – highly readable (at least, the ones I’ve read so far) he has a really interesting life-story [...]
Link: A very quick summary of events at a recent conference on “the future of education” (thanks to Mark Pegrum for the link). I was interested to note that Howard Gardner (of “multiple intelligences” fame) was speaking.There are also some interesting videos, including a panel discussion on copyright and intellectual property.
Finally got to the Edinburgh Coffee Morning. I always pick up some interesting tips, and it’s great to find out what people are doing and looking into with software and widgets.
Should I volunteer? For some time I’ve been receiving news and reading the “Seeing Hands” blog. It’s an inspirational look at helping blind people in Nepal to gain education and a paying job – not easy in a country that assumes blind people cannot contribute to society. I’ve been wondering about volunteering to go – [...]
I was recently pointed to some software that is now in beta – called Mendeley – which gives you a way to store research citations and then access it from any computer. I’m still working on seeing the ways it could help with research, but so far it looks really promising!What I like about it:I [...]
TheChild Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre has taken the unprecedented descision to make a direct appeal for information via its website and a direct email to its trainers. They feel theyhave exhausted all other channels and really need thehelp of the online community in tracing the man seen in the image (and video on [...]
A few weeks back we discovered an old 35mm film lying around that hadnt been developed. It turned out to be various bits’n'bobs from a few years back, but in particular I was thirlled to see it had some pics from a kayaking trip round Muckle Row, Shetland. For anyone who enjoys sea kayaking and [...]
Working through a pile of paperwork that has built up over the last week or so (while I have been away on various training and CPD events including the Scottish Learning Festival and TeachMeet08) I found a renewal confirmation from a local authority managing their little bit of the landlord registration scheme. The first house [...]
Just signed up for this years TeachMeet08. Without doubt the best CPD you can get with respect to ICT, Technology, and a chance to meet the people who are at the edge of using technology to take our students forward in their education. This year I am glad to be able to get to both [...]
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PQDVD have developed software which appears to be like Crazy Talk but much cheaper. Seems to be worth a look.
Andrew Brown’s Captivate series introduced me to a number of facilities in the program which I hadn’t fully appreciated. However, there are times when still images aren’t good enough for training purposes, such as when you want to illustrate a video editing process. With this in mind I’ve been playing with Techsmith’s Camtasia Studio 5, [...]
http://nwinton.wordpress.comI have just heard from a fellow supported of Bebo at TeachMeet07. Very encouraging to hear about others fighting to keep it open (or get it open in schools). To use it as a tool in the fight against bullying, and even to use it as a vehicle for a curriculum for excellence! Good Work [...]
http://www.mtvsticky.comWhile trying to track down the full report for the MTV/Microsoft/etal survey (thanks for the lead David) I found two things. Firstly thast the full report is internal to MTV and its partners, and that MTV have a site for those with an interesting following or studying youth trends. I have signed up and initial [...]
5 years ago when I took up my current post, as the schools ICT coordinator, I had a very clear, and detailedvision of where I wanted the school to be in 5 years time. I am glad to say that in many ways my vision has been fulfilled. It is however time for me to [...]
I will be heading down after school on Wednesday 19th September to TeachMeet07. This is the first time that I will have made it although it is an event that I have wanted to go to for a while. I cant get the day off work to go to the learning festival (gutted – wednesday [...]
For those who subscribe to the tree house, sorry its been so long.Im back with some thoughts on how young people see bebo and other social networking sites. I have been reflecting on various aspects of this for the last year or so, and for those who have followed my bebo ramblings I hope you [...]
So this academic year I’m going to use bogs with S1, S2, and the Higher class, for the following purposes:* S1 – to showcase the work of the class and allow parents to see how their child is doing.* S2 – to encourage creative thinking, and different ways of approaching texts and language, with a [...]
I have spent most of this afternoon trying to show my husband how to use Facebookwhich is similar to My Space, Bebo etc but apparently for the ahem… more mature person, or so I’m told! As I guided him through the process of uploading photos, filling in profiles, etc. it occurred to me that what [...]
Another WOW!
If you use TeacherTube (discussed here) to store pupil videos, you can easily link to them on your blog (or website). For WordPress and Edublogs blogs just follow this advice -Q: How can I embed a video for my Edublogs/WordPress blog?A: Here are some steps:1. Copy link provided under “Edublogs/WordPress Embeddable:” within the selected video [...]
Yet another animation program. Tales Animator uses a scripting language to animate figures to produce good looking cartoons. The scripting language is fairly easy to use but would be too difficult for younger kids. Another free download with lots of extras available on the site.
Many teachers use the Digital Blue Movie Creator for stop motion animation. Although it is easy and fun to use, it has some limitations, particularly the quality of the output.MonkeyJam lets you create stop motion animation from any web cam, digital video camera or sets of scanned images and outputs good quality avi files. It [...]
I’m just catching up on this. Thanks to Neil Winton’s post.SCRATCH is a free program which lets kids create animations by using a simple programming language. It seems to be quite powerful and, apart from the fun the kids would have, it could be used to create quite adventurous programs. It’s not for casual use [...]
Comic Life is a popular program on the mac which lets you create comic strip stories very easily.The company is working on a Windows version and has released a free beta version for testing. It seems to be fairly robust. The only problems I’ve had are printing to a network printer and deleting objects ocassionally [...]
Google Docs is a simple online word processor (and spreadsheet) with basic functions. With a decent online connection it responds quickly and can be used as a place to store documents. One of its strengths for a teacher is the ability for documents to be edited collaboratively. As an alternative to a wiki, it provides [...]
This week my son’s nursery – Langside Nursery – sent home Ted and asked us to record his adventures. We were given a book to record it and a camera with strict instructions to limit ourselves to 5 photos. That’s where my problems began – has anyone every tried telling a 4 year-old who knows [...]
Last week I was lucky enough to go to the naace conference in Torquay. It was a long way from home and I thought I was the only Scot until Thursday. Then, thanks to the catalyst of Laurie O’Donnell who was giving a presentation on “The Scottish Experience”, I met Henry Paton from Inverclyde and [...]
I have just been watching Carronshore’s excellent videos of their Scottish poetry. I had been wondering why they had moved to edublogs but having seen these videos and the ease with which you can post them I can see why.So I decided to give it a go myself and post two of my Primary 7 [...]
Today we were unable to see any of the comments that had been left on our school blog because websense had decided to block it. There was my P5 class desperate to see what comments had been posted about their podcast and it was blocked! We couldn’t read the comments on some of the other [...]
Last night after much tinkering and pushing myself way out of my comfort/understanding zone I managed to embed my Primary 5 French podcast within my school blog – success!! This might not seem like a huge achievement to some of you bloggers out there, but to me it is another learning leap! Of [...]
So what have I been up to over the last few weeks? Basically, teaching! I have been trying to get on to Glow and look at the pilot but I managed to lock myself out – entirely my fault as I use the wrong password the magic three times in a row before I looked [...]
It feels like ages since I was blogging – and I suppose it was. What is my excuse? The usual! I am not going to feel guilty though, as this is a personal blog and supposed to be a pleasurable experience.I have spent a fair bit of time over the last couple of weeks getting [...]
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I have neglected my own blog over the past week mainly because I have been so busy pushing on with all my great inspirational ideas from SETT. Our school website is beginning to take shape with lots of great suggestions from the staff about how to give the children ownership of their class [...]
If you do visit this blog then you’ll have seen my last message informing you that I have moved to a new site. The only problem is that I think I made a pig’s ear of changing the feed in feedburner. In order to update your aggregator/newsreader please visit my new site:http://hotmilkydrink.typepad.comand take the [...]
The feeds the same but the host is changing. If you still want to read my nonsense and view my site then change the link to:http://hotmilkydrink.typepad.com/
Have a listen to me under the monicker of unaccompanied_lady (there’s a respectable reason for this). I’m having a go at the Kiss classic ‘Detroit Rock City’. I’m slightly off the beat but I was having trouble with the mic and the Flash interface. Anyway, off to look for a good Scott Walker track. Enjoy, [...]
Whilst in the throes of an early morning hangover this morning (after making merry to celbrate Scotland’s superb victory last night) I switched on BBC 1 and caught the last 15 minutes of Click, a programme dedicated to the web. There was an excellent part of the programme that featured ‘interesting’ websites. One of these [...]
I was watching the TV this morning when I switched over to BBC2 and caught 5 mins of a programme called Roar. Very much like The Really Wild Show (or Animal Magic if you are my age). What caught my eye was the way they have integrated a game as part of the integral learning [...]
There’s an interesting article on the BBC site that discusses gender and game play. It investigates attitiudes of female gamers ans how the games industry can attract the fairer sex to playing with range of consoles that are avilable. The EA/Futurelab research published this week found that 40% of teenage girls play computer games but [...]
I had a meeting today with Susan Ronnie from Kirlandneuk PS about setting up our French blog between the two schools. It is great to be involved in this kind of collaboration and we both feel it will really benefit the children. Susan had found a great French [...]
I went on a great twilight course last night – Interview Skills with Shona Carmichael, Primary Consultation. Basically the aims of the course were to outline how to have a successful interview by having an understanding of what school management are looking for, how to answer questions and how to prepare. I thought this would [...]
Futurelab have just published the report of their investigation into games and learning. It’s making interesting reading. I will post more about this later. Access the report from this link.
I have hardly spent anytime playing Big Brain Academy for the Nintendo DS due to the fact that I have been acting out my surgery techniques under the guise of Derek Stiles, trainee surgeon in Trauma Centre! Nevertheless, Big Brain Academy is superb and is yet another game from the Touch Generations! stable. A little [...]
LTS are reporting that the BBC have done report on raising awareness of “internet savy” youngsters about online safety.What I find particularly interesting about this is that it opened my eyes to the pressence and activities of the “Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre” or “CEOP” for short.Its great to see the government taking online [...]
It appears that Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings and King Kong fame has signed up with Microsoft to design a ‘new’ approach to gaming via the Xbox 360 live. It looks as though he plans to develop an interactive game that combines video footage of blockbuster quality with the dynamic, powerful and collaborative [...]
Hooray! I finally managed to get my wireless network working tonight. Isn’t it great. Anyway, did anyone see the BBC report from the X06 exhibition? They featured a really interesting game that has the player fully engaged with a fun Martial Arts game called Kick Ass Kung Fu where you actually are carrying [...]
I’m ashamed that I didn’t blog, blog, blog regularly after the New Technology Residential at Stirling back in March. I’ve been learning, and starting to actually do, a lot since then so maybe I’ll have something to write about soon!Bob Hill, who is becoming a blogger of some renown has been helping our new ICT [...]
Here we are talking about blogging.
At the Masterclass New Technology we should people how to upload files to the Internet Archive via a web browser using windows. It is quite a clunky process.Much easier is to use the CcPublisherccPublisher is a tool that does two things: it will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your [...]
eLive seemed to be a great success and was commented on all over the place (apologies for the unsorted list, it is on my list to fix)Its the Kids, Stupid 25, May, 2006 WillAlan November at eLive! 23, May, 2006 edubloggereLive 2006 ACfE meets SSDN 23, May, 2006 DavideLive 2006 RSS The Killer Application [...]
This is me blogging at eLive, I can’t think of much to say.
I’ve been seeing a lot of spam comments on this blog, so I’ve activated a new plugin: Auto-Close Comments which automatically closes comments after 21 days. hopefully this will help.
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From the horse’s mouth:The ScotEduBlog Meetup is open to anyone who wants to come, not just edubloggers. It might help if you know or want to know what a blog is, enjoy a drink and eating fine food.Read on at the Meetup Wiki for more details and to take part in organising the event.When?May 24th, [...]
Tim Geddes who was at the Masterclass New Technology course is blogging with the Glaitness Primary 7. So far there is a pile of video clips of the classes trip to Nethybridge Outdoor Centre. It must have been great for the parents to be able to see their children having a good time. I think [...]
P7 pupils from Glaitness School in Orkney have just returned from a trip to Abernethy outdoor centre in Nethybridge. Each day we made a video of all the activities we took part in, edited them in imovie, exported them as Quicktime Web files and uploaded them as podcasts to our blogsite for the benefit [...]
At Stirling, a few people asked for practical examples of blogging being used by children. I’ve added background information to the Primary 7 Writing Blog so that teachers can see the thinking behind it and the practicalities of putting it into use. The link is here.
Still letting all the ideas from last week swirl around in my head! I know I must think through the best ways to use what I learned and allow some of the possiblities I caught a glimmer of, to come to fruition…and practise the basic skills and procedures so I don’t give the wrong info [...]
Beam me up Scotty! check here to see what some clever people have been doing in Japan for some time now. This video of a human water rocket is also worth a look.
Write a comment (in French!) and discuss what you enjoyed best about your trip to Normandy. Think about what you enjoyed, where you were and why it was so important and memorable.
As the holidays approachLets look at the weatherI think its coldTeacher says I’m a blether
We are finding out about looking after pets.Download. It is 8 years old and is very healthy. I look after it well.We are going to make a pamphlet about looking after goldfish.Click here to go to a site and read about how to look after a goldfish.Find one tip that you think should be included [...]
Wearenow addingthe final enhancementsto our group activity (not task).Graham is working his magic on our photos to see if he can get rid of the red-eye disease. The creation ofsimpleinstructions for blogging and podcasting was great fun and I personally learned loads. Hopefullyothers will find it useful.
The group I was in have been perfecting the blog PCPod and had it praised by James Farmer – whom John says is an ace blogger!
You should really listen to the audio file first and then have a look at the movie file of this poem. How does image help to convet meaning. Is my interpretation of the poem enhanced in this format? Let me know what you think.Download
Have a listen to ‘The Watergaw’ by Hugh MacDiarmid. This poem uses the watergaw (a rainbow) as a metaphor for life and death. What do you think of the poem and my interpretation of it. Listen to: The Watergaw
“When I was at primary school I got picked on non-stop for two years. No-one talked to me. I hadn’t done anything to get blamed for, and I still don’t know the reason I got picked on. I wasn’t any wealthier or poorer or a different race.I used to cry myself to sleep every night. [...]
Your task is in three parts. Download the recording sheet on which you will record information on the quality of two websites. DOWNLOADClick on the Space Shuttles to go to the websites. Fill in the recording sheet. Site 1 Site 2From the notes on the recording sheet, comment on this post in around 100 words.
This poem was written in response to the feelings aroused by aspects of the Scottish countryside.What does the poem make you feel?Click here to listen… are you relaxed, or disturbed? …do you feel angry or sad? …what about the sound of the words? Do they create a picture in your mind?Blog about what Inversnaid did [...]
You have each been given some blotting paper, aluminium foil, wire and a bulb.Carry out the instructions below. Write a short report on your experiment, telling us if you were able to light the bulb or not. Did you have any difficulties? Did you try to explore the idea by, for instance, changing the number [...]
Make your entry for the month of May. Remember you can send poems, photographs, stories or anything you think might be of interest.I look forward to seeing your work.
Together, we are going to write a letter from the trenches.Imagine that you are a soldier – Private McKay -in the trenches writing home to his mother. You are 20 years oldand have been in the trenches for a couple of weeks.Have a look at this site to get an idea of what life in [...]
Today we spent some time looking at interactive voting systems, taking into consideration the views, comments and experiences of others. I am of the opinion that it might be better to hold off for a little while, at least until the myriad of teething problems are sorted out. I am also looking forward to the [...]
Today we tried out some voting systems and had some fun but the possible positive outcomes for learning and teaching were more than matched by the unreliability of the products we tried and the expense…. a technology for the future but difficult to justify at present. Kids (even big kids!) are motivated by cheap little [...]
We have been looking at telling the time in class this week.I would like you to go hereLook at Sam’s clock with only one hand.What do you think the solution to this problem is?Post your solution here and explain why you think this is the solution.Could there be other solutions?
While doing our ‘Activity’ this afternoon we took a look at examples from various school websites. Check out these two examples: room 208, Juniper Green
Thank you for visiting PC Pods Teachers Guide to Blogging and Podcasting. This guide aims to help educators unravel the mysteries of blogging and podcasting. Butwhat is a blog? How do I podcast? PC Pod is here to help.Blogging a blog is an online journal, which can be accessed worldwide, and allows people to [...]
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Check out my blogroll guys. Have you visited the Landmark Project site? I was very impressed with David Warlick’s presentation at SETT in 2004.
Don’t ask. Really, don’t ask.Listen to this, chaps!
Don’t know if I’ve fully grasped this idea. Write a story, post it, await a comment and reply?? Is that it?
I’ve recently come across the BBC Creative Content site. The video sequences are brilliant in themselves for the content witihn but they are also great for using in video editing exercises.
I learned such a lot today. Lots to follow up after tantalising tastes of so many possibilities! Blogging, podcasting, storing bookmarks online, showing off to the world, tagging and sorting and sharing….
A fun mix of news, music and gossip about our first day at Masterclass.
A fun mix of news, music and gossip about our first day at Masterclass.
Balconyhttp://www.archive.org/download/Balcony_Scene_Excerpt_1/balcony.mp3
Here is a video podcast with an interview about Primary 7 forthcoming trip. Download
Welcome to the first blog page of a very new school. Class six/seven are excited about the prospect of having the world read some of their work… well at least a few people would be good! That’s assuming the teacher can get his head around the use of the technology of course!!Well only one way [...]
I work as a music, ict and support teacher in a Primary School in the Orkney Islands, with approximately 250 pupils, and as the Masterclass representative, have taken it upon myself to set up the school website. It has been very rapid learning over the last 6 months, but I am really excited by [...]
Just testing to see how to put a picture in. Not the London Eye. The Manchester Wheel.
Any good quick ideas for pulling classroom teachers into using Smartboards effectively? We have lots of boards but few inspirational users (myself included!).Hitcham’s Primary School website
The thing I am most interested in at this time of year is having my secondment extended for a sixth year. For obvious reasons I do not want to be remembered by my LEA in case they send me back to school! For those in the same position, this site gives useful information about avoiding [...]
Are blogs a good idea for use in the classroom? With issues over inappropriate instant messages being sent around classrooms can blogs generate new and meaningful contributions from students?
Hope to be able to digest this morning’s information with my lunch. Still am notconvinced how this is going to work in a primary without losing my life.
If it’s of any interest, here’s the blog I set up for my Classic Masterclass course.http://www.livejournal.com/users/masterclass
Today I’ve started a 3-day course all about blogging and podcasting. During the initial presentation, a comment was made about a website dissing Canada. Well, how can I possibly not comment on that? As a proud Canadian (and a proud Scot to boot), I had to find out more. So I did a quick search [...]
I’m new to this masterclass lark and have found the idea of blogging really interesting. My first task this morning is to blog! (Wonder if I’ll get lunch if I’m unsuccessful?) So far I have been kicked off the internet on one machineand been unable to access my internet account for my password. Not a [...]
If you would like to contribute to my wiki it can be found at http://workingtogether.wikispaces.com/ My bookmarks may be of some assistance.Also If you are ever in the unfortunate situation where you run out of Blog roll feel free to use mine.
This is my first attempt at a blog. I am having a brilliant if scary time here at Stirling Management Centre. We have had interesting, stimulating presentations and will eventually have to do some deep and meaningful tasks!….. but first of all we get to play and practice using the posting system.
Look forward to getting to grips with this as I have some fantastic pieces of writing from the children to share.
Welcome to Edublogs.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Welcome to Edublogs.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Welcome to Edublogs.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Hey all,Here’s my attempt – this is something like the 20th blog I’ve set up, 17 of which lie idle, but of course this one will remain active!Here’s a link to my Higher English Class Blog for perusal – it’s a bit web 1.0 really, because it’s a bit chalk and talk, but still it’s [...]
I’ve written blogs before. Edublogs is easy to set up. More to come….
Welcome to Edublogs.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Welcome to Edublogs.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Just before Christmas 2005 I heard a radio programme report (old technology) about a ‘new’ pastime called Geocaching. It was described as a kind of treasure hunting using a GPS (http://www.libanphone.com/gsm-glossary-of-terms.htm). Having once been a keen orienteer and also quite keen on technology, this sounded a really good pastime.I did a little research and [...]
Comic Life (from Plasq.com) has been quoted as the saviour of the Mac – to an extent I agree, but genuinely it may well be the saviour of the primary school (and beyond) curriculum!
Welcome to Edublogs.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!