Why wait till CPD catches up? If you want to learn about podcasting, you could go here for free!
Thanks to Christopher for keeping me up to date. Would be a good idea to del.icio.us-ise or digg this and let teachers you know who might fancy it!
PODCASTING WORKSHOP
presented by John Harris and Michelle Kasprzak
at the Electron […]

I’m dissapointed in myself for the lack of blog updates of recent.. I’ve not been idle, just lots of things are at the “waiting for permission/meetings/equipment/time” stage. Mainly I want to talk about the scotedublogs aggregation project but here’s some other updates:
- Observations on givings kids Audacity and a headset and asking them to record […]

Ten top mac shareware apps for an 85% discount - already raised $150,000 for charity! Mind you, only 5 hours left. Go go go!
MacHeist 85% discount top 10 mac shareware bundle

1. Go to http://www.rsc-yh.ac.uk/advent/ (Web 2.0 Advent calendar)
2. Click the links in a school
3. See how many are blocked

There’s been a flurry of excellent posts by Ewan McIntosh about learning, over the past few days, filled with interesting questions about how the read/write web enables learning, and (I think) by extension, autonomous learning. There are autonomous learners in school already - guitar players, programmers, dancers, illustrators, and other kids who have a keen […]

Moving house on Monday so will be without Internet for a bit. Or so I thought till I broke my old mobile, and upgraded to a wee MDA Vario. Still working it out, hence no pictures etc. A fair few other bloggers have praised these wee devices (though mainly the better Vario II) - maybe […]

You’ve probably seen all this before, but I had the kids try out this when talking about search engines - pretty nice I think!
Kartoo - visual search engine
And for hours of fun:
Ms. Dewey - Microsoft’s avatar search engine. Kind of rubbish, but fun to show the kids (maybe not a class of 3rd year boys, […]

I love seeing what other people are doing with free web tools - there’s a lot of free tools out there empowering teachers and students to make great stuff. I’m always still drawn to embracing the geek in me and programming my own tools for use in the class. I don’t actually have the […]

Just a quick live example of Moodle in action - collaboratively building a glossary of terms about a unit of work - I hand out flash cards with a term, pupils use their knowledge, the web and their notes to find definitions.
 Moodle Glossary Collaboration
 The terms you’ll find there at the moment were done by students working […]

I’m going to set up a site offering installed Moodle sites to any teacher or school in Scotland that needs it.
The thing about that is that if you want to make a point, you cannot rely on just arguing in favour of what you think is right, what you can do is create the […]