archive link | Perma linkBubbleshareless
I have been quite jealous of the use of BubbleShare on the Interactive Chatting Teddies blog, but it is blocked at school at the moment. I've not asked for it to be unblocked, but I am trying a couple of homespun alternatives.1. Photos in iPhoto, record audio in Garage band and add to iTunes, export Quicktime move from iPhoto with the audio as the 'music' : Amy and Bradley - country in the city
2. Record audio in Audacity, import photos and audio to flash file, children can create slideshow with crude effects: Daniel and Nicole - country in the city/
At the moment, the second has the best possibilities, more for the children to do, and smaller file size. I helped with the saving of audio and importing to flash, but given a bit of practice the children could do most of that, they organised the images and tweened them in flash this time. the flash file is also smaller than the quicktime one, though that may be down to my ignorance of QT.
Both files are a bit big to incorporate in a blog, but it might be possible to have some sort of flash file that would dynamically load images and sound just like bubble share. Is this worthwhile, giving pupils a voice, or just toys for this boy?
archive link | Perma linkWebsites as Graphs
websitesasgraphs
Using www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/
The differences between here, the Sandaig Otters and the Sandaig home page are intreguing.
archive link | Perma linkRadio Scotland- Podcasters
I've just listen to the BBC Radio Scotland Podcasters show which featuredRadio Sandaig. The children sounded great, confident and articulate.
Unfortunately (for me) they had cut out my explanations. I can't say I blame them, but I though I had addressed a couple of points in the show.
Muriel Gray was asking about the benefits of podcasting and it might have been nice if the educational benefits (talking, listening, writing, working together and a big chunk of A Curriculum for Excellence) had been spelled out rather than left to the audience to deduce for themselves.
Near the end of the programme Muriel says 'I am still not convinced that it is not just boys and their toys' the group she talked to at Sandaig was more girls than boys, one of my aims this year was to increase the number of boys taking part!
Some of the other podcasters (Daily Source Code , tartanpodcast etc) made great points in favour of podcasting generally.
If you missed the show you can listen on line, for a while at least.
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Grazr above is reading in an opml I exported from Vienna, my desktop feedreader.
Make me realise, 1. I need to tidy up Vienna and 2. I should know a bit about OPML.
Loosely connected blue-sky
I (or the guinness) was talking to Will about some sort of feed that would connect a podcast with a set of audio comments, noting the time on the original podcast where the comments are, you could then jump to the interesting/contensious point on the podcast. This would need a networked mp3 player with an interesting interface and a load of bandwidth. Podcasts would then become browse-able in the same way as blogs. The mp3 player would of course record, upload and link your comments.
archive link | Perma linkBlogging in wordpress workshop notes
This looks really well put together May 9th Edublogs Workshop Handout from bits & bytes blog, via edublogs.orgarchive link | Perma linkStoring Podcasts
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 CcPublisher
ccPublisher is a tool that does two things: it will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license and it allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting. You also have the option of publishing the licensed and tagged audio works on your own site.
I made a movie of using the tool to ccpublisher_mac1.mov upload a mp3 Quicktime file 3.3 MB stored on the Internet Archive
archive link | Perma linkRadio Sandaig on Radio Scotland
BBC Radio Scotland: PodcastersMon 29 May, 11:30 - 12:00 30 mins
Muriel Gray unpicks fact from fiction behind the latest buzzword, and finds out how Scottish podcasters are sending home-made radio programmes across the world.Don't miss it!
You can listen BBC Radio Player
Or on the Radio: 92.4-94.7 FM or 810 MW
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Scot Edublog meetup
Great photo, it looks like I am saying something interesting to Will.
archive link | Perma linkeLive Will Richardson Keynote - Notes and Typos
After yesterday's blogfest from Ewan, David and Andrew, I am afraid I need to join in today.
Intro guy is talking about one to one for Edinburgh teachers!
Will:
Biggest learning experience - blogging..
Not about Technology about imagination (someone was talking about Imagination and will yesterday)
one red paperclip
Mashup: amine of Ellen Feiss (sp): Osaka as Ellen Feiss
increase on web of chances to use imagination.
One Billion folk online now. 10 billion pages.
1,000,000,000,000 links (US trillion)
RW Web: Old web consumption, new web Web 2.0 writable.
Turning point.
5 minutes from now all in the room can be bloggers. I new blog a second. %) still there after 3 months.
Roll of blogger is to link ideas (maybe)
Showing a http://www.touchgraph.com/ of the netword surrounding his blog, looks like a great tool.
Global Voices Online
http://www.creativecommons.org (first of 3 I know about)
12 million kids online.
13 year old podcasting in September 2004!
Will is showing Sandaig Otters!
Linking to Curriculum for Excellence.
The Read/Write Web just might change the world.
Closed to Open content model. Free content - web goodness. MIT OpenCourseWare
Talking about wikis, creating text books.
Rip mix and learn (buzzwords galore) Teacher as DJ!
Long distance mentors.
Sometime to anytime learning.
Working alone to working together.
Kid with essay on wikipedia.
We should be editing wikipedia.
Hand it in vs Publish it (hmm, quality control)
RSS, furl etc.
Children find own teachers. Bring primary sources into classroom (new roll of teacher)
Need to model publishing, editing ect. Danger of children publishing and believing it is private.
Great exciting talk, Ewan, David type a lot faster than me so probably a good idea to get over there.
archive link | Perma linkeLive in the Scots BlogoSphere
Maybe not as good as being there but:Augmented reality 23, May, 2006 edublogger
Alan's on a roll 23, May, 2006 edublogger
Blogs and podcasts... for the last time 23, May, 2006 edublogger
Alan November at eLive! 23, May, 2006 edublogger
eLive 2006 - Alan November Keynote 23, May, 2006 David
eLive - keynote 1 - Alan November 23, May, 2006 ab
ScotEduBlog Meetup 19, May, 2006 edublogger
eLive 2006 ACfE meets SSDN 23, May, 2006 David
eLiveCast! 23, May, 2006 edublogger
and a first time blogger:
first rambling
plenty to chew on.
I am really looking forward to tomorrow .
archive link | Perma linkElive
Exciting Stuff.Over at eLive! Scotland seems to have got the blogging buzz at last.
Last year at SETT I tried to blog some stuff from the floor, borrowing machines at random stalls.
Today I am sitting in my classroom (I've a student in, and she is having a crit) reading elive as it happens. I guess wifi has arrived at the Scots Edu conference world.
Alan november is keynoting.
Ewan is taking it in and modifying his own presentation!
David andAndrew are blogging the keynote.
archive link | Perma linkTim Lauer Re-appears
Tim was offline for the last week or so with DNS Issues He say'sMy site has been down for about a week with a DNS issue. It is finally resolved. Not that anyone missed anything while I was gone...Well I missed you Tim and saw the Safari can’t find the server message everyday. I can't tell you that in a comment as they don't seem to be working?
Time is in my daily reading and I've had as much fun following up web and ed ideas from him as anywhere. You also get a lovely feeling about Lewis Elementary from Tim's postings.
archive link | Perma linkRecent Reading
I flagged these in Vienna and am still experimenting with AppleScript blogging.WordPress Theme Philosophy Friday, May 5, 2006 07:33:15
Voice Candy 1.0 Thursday, May 4, 2006 14:00:00
Learning from blogs Friday, May 5, 2006 16:10:35
The Sims and the New York TImes Sunday, May 7, 2006 02:43:24
10.4: System-wide iPhoto browser Monday, May 1, 2006 15:30:00
archive link | Perma linkA Vist from De Rank
Our partner school in the Netherlands arrived last night. Some of the Sandaig staff met them for some fun and games is George Square. I took Hans and Ingrid to Starbucks to do some blogging: Basisschool De Rank Weblog. We had a bit of bother, but managed to work around it. There should be more posts on their blog and our Sandaig - De Rank blog over the next couple of days.
Notice the care with which I took the photo, no corporate logos.
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Map -JohnMy latest effort to provide a tool for producing annotated with text and image google maps. This one adds Lightbox JS v2.0 to view full-sized images by clicking the thumbnails in the popup things.
The map was produced with this setup which I think is well within the capabilities of most primary pupils. There a few rough edges that need ironed out, especially in the image upload and the code (don't look it is horrible), but if I get a bit of time this week I'll unleash primary six on it as testers. Fell free to make a map of your own over the next couple of days. After that I'll be password protecting it.
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ThinkFree Online beta via Tim Lauer. 1GB storage. The quick Edit module is one of these form things that Safari does not like, but there is a power edit mode which is a Java applets thing. I hardly every have to use word so I guess this might be useful for me when it gets out of beta. There are a lot of features, the most intriguing is the insert picture, you can choose clip art, file, or flickr, the flickr window lets you search flickr and insert the result. This and Ewan's comment made me thing about the amount of time I spend in front of the screen. It is comforting to me that very little of this time is using word.
archive link | Perma linkMap progress
After a disappointing day I am working on the Sandaig Maps Experiment
you can now create new maps, edit them.
Still to do image upload and selection.
archive link | Perma linkSystem-wide iPhoto browser
One for the mac folk from macosxhints via Daring Fireball 10.4: System-wide iPhoto browser An Automator action that can be added as script to your script menu. Take about 1 minute to make. Lets you access all your iphoto photos via a wee drag and drop window, without opening iPhoto.
archive link | Perma linkGoogle Maps some progress
I now have a map that anyone can add points to and they are saved. Once this is password protected and can make new maps it might just make it out of the idle curiosities category.Testing in school yesterday I had trouble with some of the satellite images not working. I have no idea if this was a temporary google problem or something to do with the firewall or cache on the network (or something else completely).
archive link | Perma linkBeeLoop SL
I was so busy messing about yesterday that I didn't really think about David's comment enough.Although designed for using with flickr it could be used to provide maps for blog posts. Nice interface produces this:
Click here to see where this photo was taken. By courtesy of BeeLoop SL (the Mapware & Mobility Solutions Company).I think my children could use this to tag posts about trips etc.
I'll probably keep messing about for a wee while more.