Comments for Alan Stewart's Blog http://atss.wordpress.com Clippings from the fringes of educational ICT Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:26:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on ATSS Summer School - Day 1 by Alan Stewart http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/atss-summer-school-day-1/#comment-186 Alan Stewart Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:56:29 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=349#comment-186 Cheers, Jaye. Highland & Glow - too long a story to explain here but it's a long way off. So I'm just trying to get ahead with what we CAN acces here and now. Check out acrobat.com - I was only using Skype as an example of free stuff. Alan Cheers, Jaye.

Highland & Glow - too long a story to explain here but it’s a long way off. So I’m just trying to get ahead with what we CAN acces here and now. Check out acrobat.com - I was only using Skype as an example of free stuff.

Alan

]]> Comment on ATSS Summer School - Day 2 by Alan Stewart http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/atss-summer-school-day-2/#comment-185 Alan Stewart Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:53:41 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=351#comment-185 Yes, Doug. Plan to shed the anorak for the rest of the summer!!! Yes, Doug. Plan to shed the anorak for the rest of the summer!!!

]]> Comment on ATSS Summer School - Day 2 by ictopusnews http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/atss-summer-school-day-2/#comment-184 ictopusnews Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:25:34 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=351#comment-184 Hey Alan ... you are becoming a real techy !! Pods and blogs and wikis ... absolutely wonderful and the music to the animoto if very, very good. Keep up the excellent work ... Scotland needs more of this ... Doug Hey Alan … you are becoming a real techy !! Pods and blogs and wikis … absolutely wonderful and the music to the animoto if very, very good.

Keep up the excellent work … Scotland needs more of this …

Doug

]]> Comment on ATSS Summer School - Day 1 by mimanifesto http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/atss-summer-school-day-1/#comment-183 mimanifesto Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:19:39 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=349#comment-183 Sounds really good - but it would be interesting to know why Highland won't be going with GLOW yet, as it could provide a great platform for bringing all of these tools together, and the Video-conferencing facility is so superior to just using skype.. Animoto is great in the classroom...enjoy your course Sounds really good - but it would be interesting to know why Highland won’t be going with GLOW yet, as it could provide a great platform for bringing all of these tools together, and the Video-conferencing facility is so superior to just using skype..

Animoto is great in the classroom…enjoy your course

]]> Comment on OU Beauty!!!! by mimanifesto http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/ou-beauty/#comment-180 mimanifesto Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:54:27 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=326#comment-180 ...and I've just finished a post-grad mo0dule with them. have an exam next week ! Its really good to see the OU moving forward, firstly making much of their content open and free, and then this use of iTunes. Some great stuff for many of our classes here as well. Jaye …and I’ve just finished a post-grad mo0dule with them. have an exam next week !
Its really good to see the OU moving forward, firstly making much of their content open and free, and then this use of iTunes. Some great stuff for many of our classes here as well.

Jaye

]]> Comment on OU Beauty!!!! by ictopusnews http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/ou-beauty/#comment-179 ictopusnews Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:51:27 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=326#comment-179 I was one of the first tranche (is that right?) of students to do an OU degree ... I got mine in awarded in Dec 9173 ... and wasn't my mum proud !! I was one of the first tranche (is that right?) of students to do an OU degree … I got mine in awarded in Dec 9173 … and wasn’t my mum proud !!

]]> Comment on My new alternative Pendrive! by auchenharvie http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/my-new-alternative-pendrive/#comment-175 auchenharvie Thu, 15 May 2008 14:07:58 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=262#comment-175 Just embedded an mp3 on my Pandora post using drop.io, but no instant play thanks to following your del.icio.us link to 'An-Archos' and their article on the Anarchy Media Player. After installing the plugin and inserting audio, I copied the source link from the drop.io embed-code and success! - a free fast link to any media file. Just embedded an mp3 on my Pandora post using drop.io, but no instant play thanks to following your del.icio.us link to ‘An-Archos’ and their article on the Anarchy Media Player. After installing the plugin and inserting audio, I copied the source link from the drop.io embed-code and success! - a free fast link to any media file.

]]> Comment on Is it better to have surfed and lost………..? by Highland and Websense. « Jim Henderson’s Blog http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-it-better-to-have-surfed-and-lost/#comment-173 Highland and Websense. « Jim Henderson’s Blog Sun, 04 May 2008 11:38:20 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-173 [...] and Websense. Posted on May 4, 2008 by jimhenderson Alan blogged about his frustrations of trying to access some blogging sites but had them restricted by [...] [...] and Websense. Posted on May 4, 2008 by jimhenderson Alan blogged about his frustrations of trying to access some blogging sites but had them restricted by [...]

]]> Comment on Comics and graphic novels a “powerful vehicle for literacy and creativity” by andreareid http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/comics-and-graphic-novels/#comment-172 andreareid Fri, 02 May 2008 19:29:13 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/comics-and-graphic-novels/#comment-172 Love these ideas! P7 in my previous school did a lot of work using Kidnappit Graphic novel and as someone who once worked at DC Thomson's in a previous life on teenage magazines, I say more power to your elbow using Jackie, Blue Jeans and Patches!! Love these ideas! P7 in my previous school did a lot of work using Kidnappit Graphic novel and as someone who once worked at DC Thomson’s in a previous life on teenage magazines, I say more power to your elbow using Jackie, Blue Jeans and Patches!!

]]> Comment on Is it better to have surfed and lost………..? by davidrgilmour http://atss.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-it-better-to-have-surfed-and-lost/#comment-171 davidrgilmour Fri, 02 May 2008 07:48:55 +0000 http://atss.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-171 Oh dear. Sense doesn't come into it, does it? I did a paper on this for another Scottish LEA, happy to send a copy. It was a summary of our position in East Lothian. The key distinction we make is between Web2.0 sites that are important to teaching and learning, such as blogs, wikis and photo-sharing sites, and those that are more used for the children's social lives, such as Bebo. They were lumping them all together at the time and blocking the lot. I wouldn't claim we're perfect, or that this is an ideal situation in that sometimes teachers may want to use Bebo as a learning tool, say for example in relation to internet safety. But it might be a sensible first target to aim for? Good luck! David http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david Oh dear. Sense doesn’t come into it, does it?

I did a paper on this for another Scottish LEA, happy to send a copy. It was a summary of our position in East Lothian. The key distinction we make is between Web2.0 sites that are important to teaching and learning, such as blogs, wikis and photo-sharing sites, and those that are more used for the children’s social lives, such as Bebo. They were lumping them all together at the time and blocking the lot.

I wouldn’t claim we’re perfect, or that this is an ideal situation in that sometimes teachers may want to use Bebo as a learning tool, say for example in relation to internet safety. But it might be a sensible first target to aim for?

Good luck!

David
http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david

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