Posted in eduBuzz on Mar 10th, 2010 No Comments »
How easy is is to post to an Edubuzz blog from inside Edubuzz Google Apps?
This document has been created in the Edubuzz Google Docs system, and I’m testing to see if I can publish it directly to my Edubuzz WordPress MU blog using the Google Apps “Post to blog” feature.
The screen below shows the settings [...]
Posted in A Curriculum for Excellence, Schools ICT, blogging, eduBuzz, information literacy on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
What might schools do to help students find employment during a recession?
Charlie Hoehn’s e-Book “The Recession-Proof Graduate” has been getting a lot of readers since it caught the attention of Seth Godin.
He includes this frank perspective on the value of being able to use typical productivity applications in today’s job market.
If your skill set on [...]
Posted in eduBuzz, infrastructure, projects on Jan 9th, 2009 15 Comments »
Now that netbooks offer low cost, portable computing - and will only get better - how can schools best exploit them?
That’s the question behind a new East Lothian project starting this term. There’s been a lot of discussion of the potential of these technologies over the last year or so and we now aim to [...]
Posted in eduBuzz on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
If you - or your school - has an account with the Flickr photo-sharing website, you might want to set it up so that you can post photos directly from Flickr to your edubuzz blog(s).
In Flickr, go to Your Account, Extending Flickr, then add the blog to Your Blogs. There’s a test, which will post [...]
Posted in eduBuzz on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
For Islayian’s benefit, and anyone else interested, this is a section of video just to show what his link-up looked like to those of us attending TeachMeet08 at the Scottish Learning Festival 2008.
This shows the sort of thing that Glow Meet enables within schools, where, for example, a visiting speaker in one school could be [...]
Posted in eduBuzz on Aug 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Have we reached a new milestone with traditional school practices becoming the target of satirists?
The concept of wasting a majority of daylight hours sitting still in a classroom when he could be riding his bicycle, playing in his tree fort, or lying in the grass looking at bugs—especially considering that he had already wasted two [...]
Posted in WPMU, eduBuzz on Jul 29th, 2008 3 Comments »
It’s become even easier to get publishing on eduBuzz.org following today’s upgrade to Version 1.5.1 of its WordPress MU software.
The interface redesign is the result of a lot of work by the WordPress community, including extensive usability testing. First impressions are good, but we’ll need to do some checks to see how students and staff react. [...]
Posted in eduBuzz on May 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Tags are one of the most important tools for finding information on the web. Edubuzz blogs are now much better equipped to make full use of them.
If it’s new to you, here’s an intro to tags from Wikipedia:
A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information [...]
Posted in eduBuzz on May 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
What sort of things would you like to see on the edubuzz home page?
At this week’s edubuzz Open Meeting the idea of it becoming a busy, one-stop shop providing an overview of what’s happening across East Lothian’s edubuzz community was proposed. It looks like we need to move it to something that needs minimal clicking, [...]
Posted in communication, eduBuzz on Apr 24th, 2008 6 Comments »
An East Lothian teacher I met tonight mentioned how odd it seemed that, in her few years teaching here, she felt that she knew so many staff in the other authority schools, and so much of what was going on.
She’d been in a city school in a previous life, and had felt much less in [...]
Latest posts on ScotEduBlogs