archive link | Perma linkAndy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Creating the $100 Laptop
Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Creating the $100 Laptop... a presentation from Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab. Negroponte discussed his $100 laptop initiative, in which he is working to produce a low-cost laptop for mass distribution in k-12 schools in the developing worldThis might link to the discussions at SETT about the SSDN . The problem with having all the wonderful digital resources for learners seem to be the uneven distribution. In Glasgow with a fairly low percentage of households with internet connectivity maybe we need a £100 or even £200 laptop initiative for children.
This also links into the digital native argument somewhere, some disadvantaged children will not grow up using the technology without thinking about it, putting them at an educational disadvantage compared to their better off peers in the city.
tags: Scottish Learning Festival Andy+Carvin Digital Divide
archive link | Perma linkScottish Education Blogs
Before SETT I though it was just me, Ewan and David.But there seems to be a lot more, David has posted about Exc-el weblogs in East Lothian.
In the podcasting round table at SETT, we met someone with several (still can't find my notes).
It would be nice to find some more or them all.
Sandaig's main blog is listed at Scottish Blogs but I don't see any other education blogs there.
Maybe we could start a Scottish Education Blog list somewhere.
I've started tagging Scottish Educational Blogs with scot-edu-blog at del.icio.us/tag/scot-edu-blog. If you are a del.icio.us using Scots Educational blogger or know one please tag it.
If you can think of a better tag than scot-edu-blog, please let me know in a comment.
archive link | Perma linkOld Glasgow Map
Scottish History Glasgow Mapslick google maps style map in flash.
Scottish Learning Festival
archive link | Perma linkTalking to Heidi
I am sitting at SETT talking to Heidi about podcasting and blogging, this is wee demo.archive link | Perma linkLTS blogs
Last one of the morning before I head off to the Scottish Learning Festival again.At the podcast round table Ewan and I found we were mistaken about the number of Scottish Edu Blogs as another member of the group has a few! (URL when I find my note book)
There is also a LTS Weblog with quite a lot of posts from SETT yesterday.
archive link | Perma linkVidoe Conference with Allan November at SETT
I took a pile of notes but left my notebook in the Taxi home.Among other things he said:
Every child should have a blog.
Every child should have Skype.
He also said secondary pupils should not have any filter between themselves and the internet.
technorati tag experiment: Scottish Learning Festival SETT
archive link | Perma linkPodcasting round table at SETT
I took part in the Scottish Learning Festival organised by Ewan at the table was Andy Carvin!The session seemed to last about 30 seconds. Andy had an Olympus voice recorder that looked good, not too expensive and easy for children to use.
Andy has already uploaded a podcast and the powerpoint of the presentation he gave earlier. I guess this is the first real adult digital native I've talked to rather than read on the web. Pretty much his whole holiday in Scotland is on his blog, along with a fair bit of content from SETT I wonder if Ewan recorded the round table as there was a huge mike on the table, if so I hope he will edit out anything I said.
Ewan turns out to be a digital native too programming a Spectrum from the age of six.
archive link | Perma linkMFLE Launch
Just watched Ewan introduce the MFLE at the Scottish Learning Festival.Great 15 minute power talk. I almost wish I was a modern forign language teacher.
The MFLE looks like a great site for other folk too. White boards to blogs and back.
archive link | Perma linkAndy Carvin at SETT
Andy Carvin was talking about blogs, podcasting Flickr etc at SETT (Scottish Learning Festival).Showed how fast things turn up at http://www.technorati.com/. I wonder if this will
Andy coveredthe history of online community in about 45 minutes, and didn't leave many buzzwords unturned.
Great intro, I wish I had stepped up and asked a question or two.
Most exciting site he showed us http://acroughcuts.com/.
...podcasting round table coming up very shortly....
archive link | Perma linkNew Podcast Out
As mentioned on the Sandaig News page we have finished a new podcast for Radio Sandaig. I have learnt a lot about podcasting, audacity and managing the creation. I've been especially impressed by the attitude and work of the children. As soon as we finished the show they are bursting with ideas for a new one for October, I am going to make a big effort to record more of the process here.One thing that struck me was how little equipment you need for creating a podcast. A recorder of some sort and a computer.
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Found this via Daring Firebal: http://xmlnanny.com/ it is a xml checker for mac. The new feed checks fine.archive link | Perma linkPodcasting Progress
We have been working on a new show for Radio Sandaig. After much burning of midnight and lunchtime oil, it is pretty near finished.Slightly more professional than previous shows, now with added background music. The Editing took an age, I did a fair bit of it at home this time and am beginning to come to grips with Audacity.
Spent most of Saturday morning tidying it up after the children had finished most of the editing on Friday.
Sunday has been spent exploring the
How To Publish a Podcast on the iTunes Music Store and working out how to make a suitable rss feed. I made a simple SuperCard project to create podcast feeds, which taught me a good deal about them. The new feed validates with scripting.com's validation form. also using MagpieRSS to parse the rss feed to create the new Radio Sandaig home page. To get everything I wanted from the feed (mainly the enclosure url) I had to get the patched version of rss_parse.inc as described here How to handle enclosures in Magpie.
So a busy day where I pushed my slight knowledge of RSS and PHP.
the new show should be on Radio Sandaig on Tuesday.
archive link | Perma linkGetting into blogging
Getting into blogging A new guide to blogging from the Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE) at LTS, part of the Scottish Schools Digital Network Mentions both this place and the Sandaig Otters as examples.I think the children will be very pleased when I show them on Monday.
After getting over the excitement of incoming links I noticed the guide to blogging is really good.
Hopefully we will have a few more classes blogging and them we can start children commenting back and forwards.
archive link | Perma linkradio Sandaig in production
As the children blogged we have a new podcast in production. I am hoping to do one a month this session. We got a lot of the recording done last week, but the two main presenters are off this week. As I really want it out on schedule I may step in and do some of the editing at home.I have been in more command this time, the last show, last session was nearly all organised and edited by the children. This session I hope to get to that point with a better sound quality and a more realistic amount of content (that one was nearly half and hour long, this time we are going to aim at 15 minutes).
I am already noticing a willingness by the children to give suggestions as to content and presentation to each other, especially the ones involved last year. Their use of voice and appreciation of audience has improved too. I am going to try a podcast myself, discussing podcasting with the crew soon.