http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01 The on-line home of East Lothian's learning community Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:48:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How could you make a bedtime story into a must-see event for parents? Ormiston Primary School found that one way was to have it read live from Australia - using a web videoconference. The event was attended by a horde of pyjama-clad children, who enjoyed hot chocolate while they listened to ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2009/04/23/ormiston-primary-enjoy-a-bedtime-story-live-from-australia/ Today Sanderson's Wynd Primary School have used YouTube in school to view a video, made by Edinburgh University, of their engineers taking part in the December First Lego league. The video has also been embedded on their school web site, where it can be easily found by parents. Since YouTube was ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2009/02/19/sandersons-wynd-use-youtube-to-show-their-engineers-in-action/ In June 2008, Common Ground Mediation consulted with parents and carers about how well we are doing in meeting the educational needs of children and young people with additional support needs in East Lothian. The views of parents and carers informed the report 'Evaluation of implementation of the Additional Support for ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2009/01/27/what-you-think-matters-asl/ The planned extension of last session's "Guitar Hero" transition project from Musselburgh Grammar and its feeder primaries to the whole of East Lothian gets a mention in today's Edinburgh Evening News: It was so successful it is now being rolled out across almost all primary and secondary schools in the county. Pupils ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/11/28/150/ Twitter, if you've not already encountered it, is a service worth knowing about. It's like really simple blogging, but, with each post limited to 140 characters, is used more for conversational updates. Here's how Wikipedia describes it: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/11/10/show-twitter-updates-on-your-edubuzz-blog/ That 5-minute Glow Guide was, er, not quite a full 5 minute's worth. I guess the upload had got interrupted, so the screencast video cut out before the end. It works now, so there's no need to lose sleep worrying if it all ended happily. (Flash movie, 14MB) http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/10/06/the-5-minute-glow-guide-uncut/ This is a very quick tour to give you some idea of what Glow is currently like. If you'd like to get started, please contact David Gilmour http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/10/02/glow-in-east-lothian-a-5-minute-guide/ Including a photo gallery in your posts or pages is now a whole lot easier. And here's what they look like: This big improvement is a built-in feature of the current WordPress MU software. It offers great potential for school use: It provides really good support for commenting on individual images, not ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/09/30/edubuzz-bloggers-why-not-try-out-photo-gallery/ We've said before that edubuzz.org visits were hitting over 10,000 per day during May, but how busy is it in terms of contributions? To keep an eye on that we've added the Blog Activity plugin from WPMU DEV Premium. It hasn't been running for a full month yet, but a random ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/09/30/edubuzzorg-trivia-over-1000-contributions-last-week/ Thanks to Lynne Lewis, Athelstaneford Primary students now have their own copy of the Glow Games. If you'd like to add them to your eduBuzz site, you'll find instructions below. http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/09/30/glow-games-virus-hits-athelstaneford-primary/