Posted in Blogging, Edubuzz, Exc-el blogs, Social media on May 14th, 2007 1 Comment »
We held an Edubuzz Open meeting this afternoon.
We made some key decisions:
Make use of the Edubuzz blog as the front page to the site as opposed to the current page (which we would aspire to in the future) - we felt the current front page did not enable people to easily understand the purpose and background to Edubuzz, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Communication, Community Learning, Culture change, ICT, Ideas, Learning Logs, Planning, Social media on May 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the delights of keeping a Learning Log are the comments and suggestions you receive from other people.
And so it was when Kenneth McLaughlin left a comment on one of my recent posts.
Kenneth pointed us in the direction of Agile Software Developments:
The modern definition of agile software development evolved in the mid 1990s as part of [...]
Posted in Blogging on Mar 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
David Gilmour has done it again.
If you are feel you don’t have the technical knowledge to keep your own blog then take look at David’s quick guide to starting your own blog.
It’s all very well telling people that creating a blog is straightforward - but there’s no substitute for showing them. So to demystify the process, he’s made [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, ICT, Learning Logs, Strategic on Mar 19th, 2007 13 Comments »
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We had very useful Exc-el Open meeting this evening.
Look out for our forthcoming skype (or equivalent) conference - Ollie Bray will be setting this up - participants are welcome.
For me one of our most significant decisions was to move from Exc-el.org.uk to edubuzz.org during the Easter break.
I was personally fond of Exc-el as it’s been with us [...]
Posted in Blogging, Communication, Partnerships, Social media on Feb 28th, 2007 No Comments »
I was delighted to receive a comment from Vince Campbell a school principal from Sydney, Australia. As readers of this blog may be aware I’m an avid follower of the curricular developments taking place in that country so it was particularly gratifying to think that we might have something to offer our colleagues in Oz.
Greetings from Sydney, Don. I [...]
Posted in Blogging, Community Learning, Consultation, Exc-el blogs, ICT, Social media on Feb 26th, 2007 3 Comments »
We held an Exc-el Open Group meeting this evening.
We discussed the permission forms which parents will be asked to sign to enable their children to participate and have their images displayed on school websites.
Christine - AKA guineapigmum - suggested that it would be good to speak to school boards about blogging/use of images/learning through the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Exc-el blogs, Social media on Feb 20th, 2007 4 Comments »
I’ve had a query from a teacher about the use of the web for educational purposes and the use of photographs including children.
Here’s what LTS have to say on creating and maintaining a school web site:
How safe is your website?
When creating a website the school is responsible for the care and the safety of every [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 28th, 2007 3 Comments »
I received a wonderful comment this week from “A Parent with Standards”
“Your blog is a wonderful medium! How else can a parent gain access to those higher up in education. Had I sent a formal letter into the Education Department I would have got the normal unimaginative bog standard reply. Your reply was from one [...]
Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’m going to stop keeping a “blog” and start a keeping learning log (see title bar). I’ll also stop using “blogging” software and use “exchange” software.
It was interesting to see the synonyms which the computer came up with for “communicate”. If you’ve got “Word for Windows” try it out and then check the strapline for this [...]
Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2007 16 Comments »
I was speaking to someone today who had spoken to a colleague who had declared that they had never read my blog and certainly had no intention of doing so.
It’s interesting the response that some people are having to the blogging phenomenon. I think a key factor which is influencing some people is that blogging is [...]