http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david Learning what the web can do for education Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:05:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/09/28/flickr/ My slideshow from Scottish Learning Festival 2008 talk "Making Glow Happen: How lessons from deploying a smaller scale authority-wide web publishing system in East Lothian may help." Original PowerPoint presentation:making-glow-happen (22 slides, 1.8MB) [slideshare __ss_619538 making-glow-happenmonday2330-1222414806747737-8] Here's a link to it on Slideshare.net. http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/09/26/making-glow-happen-lessons-from-edubuzz-slf2008/ 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 ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/09/25/teachmeet08-live-flashmeeting-link-up-with-islay/ Law Primary's recent inspection report is now available on HMIE's web site. The school's blogs get seven mentions altogether, including in this Good Practice box. Effective Use of ICT Staff wanted to be more innovative in their use of ICT. They created a school blog to provide information on all aspects ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/09/02/law-primarys-blogging-earns-hmie-good-practice/ 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 ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/08/23/satirists-attack-bottomless-abyss-of-formal-schooling/ Feedback from an introductory training session on ICT for this year's East Lothian NQTs apparently included the request that we should have covered how to use the school email system, in place of introducing Glow. Maybe this is a sign of the times, as increasing numbers of younger people make less ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/08/20/new-teachers-ask-for-email-training/  East Lothian's newly qualified teachers (NQTs) will be able to stay in touch, support one another and find their programme documentation, via their own Glow Group this session. Their induction training before the session starts includes a day-long session on use of ICT in East Lothian schools. This year, the session will include ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/07/31/new-glow-group-will-keep-east-lothians-nqts-connected/ 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 ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/07/29/edubuzzorg-gets-easier-to-use/ I've written a note on how to do this, which is on a separate page.  edubuzz.org was one of the early WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) sites.  It started off with Version 1.0 Release Candidate 4 of the WPMU software. The way WPMU encoded tables within the database changed in later versions, and ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/07/25/changing-wpmu-to-utf8/ We're noticing that staff new to Glow view it through the prism of their existing model of how the web works. Most of the time, that's fine, but in some areas it can cause confusion.  Clearly it's better if we can avoid that confusion, and we've been talking today about ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2008/07/23/helping-internet-savvy-staff-make-sense-of-glow/