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07 03 08 ScotEduBlogs, Now with added support

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The ScotEduBlogs site is dear to my heart. An opensource effort by teachers in Scotland to aggregate and redistribute the posting by Scottish educational blogger of all shapes, ages and sizes ScotEduBlogs has become an more than every day read for me.

At the Scottish learning Festival side dish TeachMeet07 4th Edition I made a plea for support for ScotEduBlogs. At that time it was being hosted by Jonesieboy, Robert Jones, who was also the main programmer of the site. I was approached during the dinner following Teach Meet by Joe Wilson of the The Scottish Qualifications Authority, who proposed that the SQA and Learning and Teaching Scotland should support ScotEduBlogs. Ewan who is National Adviser: Learning and Technology Futures at LTS was quick to agree.

To cut a long story short; ScotEduBlogs has now moved to its very own server which should lead to (and Robert will correct me if I am wrong) more stability, better updating etc, etc. The SQA and LTS logos now sit prettily on the ScotEduBlogs sidebar.

It might take a few days for ScotEduBlogs to settle into its new home, so if you notice anything strange let us know.

If you are a Scots Educational blogger you can do your bit to support ScotEduBlogs too:

As well as just reading the front page ScotsEduBlogs can be used in lots of other ways:

See the wiki for more ideas.

As there are more and more ScotEduBloggers ScotEduBlogs will become more and more useful as a learning tool, enabling you to get ideas that you might not pick up through your favourite feeds.

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Well done guys – sponsorship is just small recognition for all of your hard work . I hope SQA and LT Scotland can do more to support work like this in the future.
Let me know if there is anything else we can do.

I and colleagues at SQA make regular use of the RSS Feed on Scotedublogs. It is a fantastic barometer of activity across Scotland – The new Times Ed ;-)
Joe Wilson (Email) (URL) - 08 03 08 - 11:57

I’m still doing something wrong :)

I’m not sure why our class blog ‘new entries’ don’t show up on the ScotEduBlogs latest feeds?

I’ve followed all the instructions – but have probably missed the important ones:)
margaret v (Email) (URL) - 08 03 08 - 19:40

Hi Margaret – I’ve fiddled with the feed address that’s stored in Scotedublogs, so hopefully the world will be seeing the great work you’re doing!

Thanks for the kind words Joe – it’s great to hear that our project is proving useful.

We should also mention Peter Liddle http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk.. who worked with me to do the coding for the site.
Robert Jones (Email) (URL) - 08 03 08 - 20:02

Thanks John:)

Can you do the same for my ‘other blog’?
(blush)

Reading blogs like yours has catapulted me into the web 2 era …. and some practical help along the way is much appreciated :)
margaret v (Email) (URL) - 09 03 08 - 19:23

Thanks for the kind comments Joe.
Margaret, your most recent post is on the front page now, they do drop off quite quickly if lots of folk post but they are in the SEB RSS feed. The name of your blog has changed but the posts come through.
John (Email) - 09 03 08 - 22:28



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