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September 12, 2008

John Johnston

I have just come across the news that John has a new job as ICT Development Officer in North Lanarkshire.  It is not at all surprising as John must be one of the most quoted and respected in-school practitioners in the country.  I know that I must quote him as an example at least once a week.  I have always been baffled to know how he achieves so much given the very limit resources of time and equipment that he has had in Sandaig Primary but one look at the site is enough to inspire anyone.  If you have not already done so look at the cluster maps at the bottom of the page.

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September 11, 2008

Flowgram Maker

I have just been experimenting with Flowgram as recommended in Jane's Picks  It's not as easy as the demos would have you believe and at the moment the audio is terrible.  Still it does seem to be a quick way of showing web pages etc and adding test and speech so I will persevere.
 
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September 10, 2008

Drupal Set Up

Well, I am still not settled in how I will use posterous as I am floundering around trying to get a new website to run.  I created on my Windows XP machine at home using a server simulation called wamp.  Now I am trying to get it to work on the live site.  I am having problems reconfiguring the mysql database but am going to leave it to a fresh start in the morning.

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September 10, 2008

Repeat for the benefit of twitter

I am still not exactly certain of how I will use posterous as my other blog at Questions and Reflections as its name implies is more ponderous than instantaneous.
However I note today that David Muir has been at ECER08 conceference where he mentions collaboration as an important element of the project under discussion.
Meanwhile I am waiting on other people before pulling the threads together in an attempt to get collaboration going across different local authorities in Glow.  I certainly think that from a teacher's perspective, collaboration should be a very important part of this Scottish schools intranet.

However of immediate concern is an attempt to upload a Drupal 5 installation from a local host to a live site.  The more I read the suggestions and guides the more daunted I am.

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September 10, 2008

Today's Headache

I am still not exactly certain of how I will use posterous as my other blog at Questions and Reflections as its name implies is more ponderous than instantaneous.
However I note today that David Muir has been at ECER08 conceference where he mentions collaboration as an important element of the project under discussion.
Meanwhile I am waiting on other people before pulling the threads together in an attempt to get collaboration going across different local authorities in Glow.  I certainly think that from a teacher's perspective, collaboration should be a very important part of this Scottish schools intranet.

However of immediate concern is an attempt to upload a Drupal 5 installation from a local host to a live site.  The more I read the suggestions and guides the more daunted I am.

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September 9, 2008

From Work

If you can read this it means that even behind a Websense barrier I can still update this blog.



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September 9, 2008

From Work

If you can read this it means that even behind a Websense barrier I can still update this blog.

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Educational Development Service
Dundee City Council
Rockwell HS
Lawton Road
Dundee
DD3 6SY

Tel: +44 (0) 1382 434542/434888

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September 8, 2008

EdTech Meeting

Having heard about Posterous last night during the Edtech flash meeting i thought I would give it a go.

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September 8, 2008

The New Way to Blog

This might well be better than Wordpress and more efficient than Twitter

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