ScotEdupedia has arrived. It’s a wiki for Scottish Education. It looks really good, though at the moment I’ve got a problem with the way it’s set up - there’s not quick URLs (e.g. http://www.scotedupedia.co.uk/Maths  doesn’t take you to the entry on maths) which is a real issue for avid ‘pedia users. Also the layout is […]

Hello to new viewers to this fine publication, especially those from my class who have sneakily found this! I’d encourage you to have a look at the links to see what weird and wonderful things teachers actually do in their jobs (and spare time). Maybe they could start some revision blogs before the Higher exams […]

- Blogging is working well for the more able pupils, as they seem to be retaining most of what they write about
- Blogging has been unsuccessful for some pupils, as they have directly copied information. Though the information is interesting and accurate, the pupils have succeeded more in the act of finding than in the […]

The third years did well - 86 posts from 15 pupils in half a period. Not bad. Some managed 8 posts. Tomorrow we test how effective this is by taking their own revision and giving them customised questions on it. Then at least I’ll be able to see if the kids are absorbing what they […]

Inspired by Sandaig’s excellent comic about Burns Night, I thought I’d have a wee look for online comic makers, that might be useful for teachers and pupils alike.
Comic creator by the IRA (the International Reading Association, that is )
Futurama comic maker
Garfield comic creator - this one look great.
Really simple comic creator
Nice simple comic strip […]

Got the third years to set up their own blog and now we’re doing summaries of different input/output devices on them. It’s good for me as I get an RSS feed of all the entries aggregated for me! So far so good with this - though one candidate has referred to himself as ih8computing […]

Tomorrow sees my school’s first meeting about using radio shows/podcasting in school. It’s a meeting of the ICT committee so at this point it’s just to check over if I’ve got my ideas right. Has anyone out there had any problems with the RadioWaves site?
 Our plan is to have a radio show club which will […]

Been having a champion time with the ScotEduBlog project over the last week. In the past three weeks, I’ve managed to learn Ruby on Rails and join in a collabarative open source project. All while going back to school! Good times.
It’s good to be programming something useful, though I am reminded of my limitations as […]

I’m a wee bit embarrased how excited I am about this, but looks like I’m getting to be a Glow mentor!
Geek out!

 
Google reader! a personal, online RSS feed aggregator and reader! I’ve been using it for a few months and can find no better. Simple to use, sharable, and now has great statistics for each blog and your own preferences. All of it’s starrable and taggable too, and exports OPML files! You can control it with your […]