Found the Art Guy had added new video to his Flickr photo stream. This one shows how to use origami to make ’star books’. It’s quite tricky and using video adds a lot to the ease of understanding how to do it.
Implications
Another argument for changing the name of the classroom displays group and blog to displays and makes.
Issues about pointing to his blog though, a link in the sidebar of the Classroom Displays Blog perhaps?- hmm
thoughts - moving the displays to the blog ‘puts what is inside the community on the outside’ - find ref from Andy

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Lindiop in 2005
2005 was 84% worth living.
In 2005, Lindiop did 51 things, went 32 places, met 4 people, and consumed 0 products.
(43Things)
Well no need for any self assesment in future then

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Andy’s blog post about Teachin Assistant groups made me think about looking for an interested audience for my final exhibition. Last year when I started the Classroom Displays Group on Flickr I went looking for a TA group and was unable to find any very active national ones. I’d resigned myself to using teacher based groups this year again but Andy’s post made me think I’d give it one last try.
Plan
I Googled for TA forums and didn’t turn up much, TES, and a few others. None of them very active except perhaps socially. However looking through the archives of one of them I found a posting about a new TA forum. This looked quite interesting. It has over 200 members (I was number 200) and it seems to be quite active. There were lots of recent posts on a wide variety of subjects but what really rang my bell was there were threads about displays:-)
Actions
I posted a link to the Classroom Displays group and a bit of an explanation about my research then wandered off to explore the rest of the forum. I’ve made 4 posts so far. (My initial one, one in Introductions, and 2 responses to other people).
Theory into practice
I knew from advice from Andy, and from my experiences last year that it is important to join in the life of a community not just try to grab what you want and whiz off again.
Bob Dick talks about how relationships are the basis of much of action research and I think this is just as true online as f2f.
So there we go - another cycle of emergent research, this time DAR. I’ve got more to write about this but I want to spend a week or so getting to know my way round the forum first.

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This week
I have been monitoring the rss feed for the tag ‘classroom’ on flickr.
results:
3 new classroom displays turned up
2 from someone helping in a school in Japan
and one that is really interesting as the person who posted it is an art teacher in America. I discovered that he is in a group called Elementary Art
He’s using this group to document the art work he’s doing with an after- school art club. The work is good, lots of new ideas.
Actions
I left a comment on two of the photos inviting the people to add them to the group.
Results
So far one of the two people has joined (the art teacher). He has added 3 photos to the group pool , although not the one I commented on.

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I’ve got James Falmer commenting on here assuring me that I can add a Flickr badge to my links area on the edublogs blog and to have a play :-). I’m struggling to see where to put it. I can’t edit the stylesheet like on the blogger one - that was fairly straightforward. So I wonder where I am supposed to put the html code? Oh there’s a thought, perhaps it works better with the Java one. My several attempts this afternoon haven’t worked. So far I’ve learned:

I have got the blogging direct from Flickr sort of working now, but it shows some of the html above the image which I then have to edit out from the blog - thus rather defeating the object.
Still I am leaning towards the Edublog:

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This week is down in my research plan for taking the first action phase of my research. I was worried that I was just ‘messing about’ with making a blog for the Classroom Displays group. Well, actually two blogs both called Classroom Displays one on James Falmer’s Edublogs site Edublogs and one on Blogger.

I wanted to see how they compare for ease of posting, style, ease of linking etc. Originally I thought I’d have to find a blog that would make it through the LEA Smartfilter (that’s a whole other conversation!). However as the blog is aimed mostly at teachers and support staff I decided this wasn’t such a big issue. This is partly because we now have a computer in the staffroom that isn’t filtered so no blocked sites.
Anyway, when I checked my plan for this week I realised I am doing exactly what I’d intended. I am taking my first actions in my research, adding a blog to the Classroom Displays Group.

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