John @ Sandaig Primary » Be Very Afraid
John at Sandaig Primary has lots of experience with running a series of podcasts with pupils.

Tomorrow, Sunday, morning I am off to Be Very Afraid at BAFTA. I am taking 2 of last years primary seven, now at secondary, to create a podcast.
BVA is a celebration of students’ digital creativity, in the david lean room!
Should be an interesting event (last years).
The pupils have though up a very creative idea for their podcast (hint revenge), hopefully they will have time to blog about it tomorrow at Sandaig Otters and the podcast will be published sometime on Monday from BVA, if everything go ok.
if you have any interested children they might like to read the Sandaig Otters blog on Monday to see what is going on.

Of course the really interesting thing about this is who is involved. LOL .
Scratch the surface.
Follow the link to last year’s and you’ll find Stephen Hepple hosting it (founder of the Ultraversity degree and Ultralab itself) and a major contribution from the school of our erstwhile resident techie Jonathan Furness. Small world!!
( I wondered why John had suddenly put a link to Jonathan’s Blog on his sidebar!)

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I was delighted to see Cohort 6 arriving in Ultrastudents. It seems that they’re setting up blogs as part of their introduction to the degree. A few of us in Cohort 1 started blogging very early on and some of us kept going for the whole 3 years. In my case blogging became a major part of my final year research.
Anyway there’s a list of Cohort 6 Blogs on the Ultrastudents Wikispace. So why not go along and say “Hi” to them. Getting welcoming comments from other bloggers is always a good feeling And if you’re in Cohort 6 and your blog isn’t on there why not nip in and add it yourself. Editing the wikispace is really easy and if you need help just shout!
BTW - if you’re an Ultraversity Blogger and your blog isn’t on this page please add it

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So here I am with my brand spangly new BA(hons) First Class. Where has it got me so far? Since July I’ve had one decent job interview. I’ve sent off loads of application forms and carefully targeted cvs. Nothing. I can’t even find anything to apply for now.
So here I am still in school, still doing the same job and increasingly less able to cope with it. The new class has some specific problems that I won’t go into here. These mean that I’m spending much of my time ‘fire-fighting’ and the research element of my job is being neglected. I’ve no longer got the distraction of the modules, or the feeling of working colaboratively with people in my learning set.
This all adds up to me feeling pretty lost. It feels hollow and pointless at the moment.

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When I first started the Classroom Displays Blog I used both edublogs and Blogger blogs for a couple of weeks. I finally chose edublogs partly because it promised a growing community of education professionals and partly because I fell for Wordpress as a blogging tool.
Now edublogs is proving a bit unreliable for the Classroom Displays Blogand I’m concerned that James may not be able to give it enough attention what with his new job and everything. I’ve decided to revive my blogger version of the blog and use it to mirror the site content. It’s pretty easy to post to both blogs from Flickr so really it will just be a matter of copying current posts across.
Of course it’s not wordpress so no lovely quick adding links direct from my toolbar but Blogger beta does seem to have some good points. For starters I can edit the templates, which I can’t do on edublogs. It’s got tagging for posts now which was a big plus for Wordpress originally. Still I don’t want to shift away from edublogs totally.
I’ve added Google Analytics so I can see how the two sites are doing

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The Classroom Displays Blog keeps collecting interesting people from all over the world linking to it. This time it’s the Laboratori de Mitjans Interactus University of Barcelona:
in their section on art blogs & visual education links

Classroom Displays
Un blog de Linda Hartley, mestra britànica, dedicat exclusivament als murals que es fan a classe amb mestres i alumnes. Pensat per mostrar exemples fantàstics, intercanviar informacions i sistemes de com fer-ho entre mestres.
Linda Hartley

Cool

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I’ve just been nagged by my former self via 43Things account to remind me to keep working on a couple of goals. It’s quite strange getting nag mail from oneself!
It resonated with my favourite definition of nagging:

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths

Edith Clara Summerskill
Nagging wouldn’t be nearly so annoying otherwise!

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Weblogg-ed » K12 Online 2006 Conference…
K12 Online 2006 Conference…

From Will Richardson’s blog comes this:

Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006? convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 with the theme “Unleashing the Potential.” A call for proposals is below.

There will be four “conference strands”– two each week. Two presentations will be published in each strand each day, Monday - Friday, so four new presentations will be available each day over the course of the two-weeks. Each presentation will be given in podcast or screencast format and released via the conference blog (URL: TBA) and archived for posterity.

Sounds great and I might just try submitting a presentation to strand A:
Strand A: Personal Professional Development

Tips, ideas and resources on how to orchestrate your own professional development online; the tools that support Professional Learning Environments (PLEs); how to create opportunities to bring these technologies to the larger school community; how to effectively incorporate the tools into your personal or professional practice; or how to create a supportive, reflective virtual professional community around school-based goals.

Chould be possible, I might be able to put put something together from my final year’s work. Worth a try anyway

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