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Re: My Proposal to use Google Docs for Online Reporting to Parents

Dan Stucke — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:16:47 -0000

Tom,

I think its a great idea, and in principle transferable to Secondary education. However there is an incredibly long way to go with this.

As an example, I arrived in school today to find that Google Docs is blocked for staff. I asked for it to be unblocked for staff and pupils (pushing my luck I know!) to be told that it was not possible as it is a 'security risk'. When pushed it was explained that as private pupil data could be copied onto GDocs and shared it was a risk. I was offered the opportunity to have the specific url of my spreadsheet unblocked after it had been vetted. This logic seems to wipe out the use of the entire read/write web in my school :( For anyone interested here is the sheet I am trying to share with my class, I think it's use is fairly self explanatory: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pi_Ik07y...

A small example of what we're up against!

Back to your idea, as others have said I think you need to start small. And above all I think that expectations on the volume of reporting by staff should be made as clear as is possible. Parent's will expect a lot otherwise and if limits are not set at the start you may run into trouble.

Best of luck and keep us updated!
Dan

Re: Plan, Tweet, Teach, Tweet, Learn, Smile

Dan Stucke — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:36:07 -0000

Great stuff Tom, I'm planning to send a tweet or two out next week with a link to a google form (as per some of your earlier work) for a data collection project. Any replies will be greatly appreciated!
Dan

Re: Top 5 Times Tables Resources

Dan Stucke — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:33:44 -0000

Great list Tom, I have used these and a few others on a list attached to the back of a 12x12 tables. You can get the file here:
http://www.divshare.com/download/3342592-1c7
Print the first two pages back to back and then laminate. My bottom set Year 9s will be getting a copy of these on Monday! Hope its of some use. Regards, Dan.

Re: Del.icio.us Staff Meeting

Dan Stucke — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:51:49 -0000

This looks a great idea! I think I will try and start something similar in my new school after Easter. Keep us updated on how it's going. I'm particularly interested how having one account for the whole school goes. At Secondary level I'm worried it could get 'too big', maybe one account per department might work for us. If the departments were set up in the network you could still tag stuff for:English for example.
Hmm, lots to think about - thanks!

Re: 3 Conversations: #1 del.icio.us

Dan Stucke — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:26:17 -0000

Anna, if you enter two words in the search box the default action is to bring up all the links that include BOTH tags. More details here:

http://del.icio.us/help/search

Dan

Re: 3 Conversations: #1 del.icio.us

Dan Stucke — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:46:43 -0000

This is a great idea. Something which I came across yesterday is this extensive set of Maths links tagged with the areas from the Numeracy Strategy, hope it's of help!

Maths Links

If I had the time I'd love to do the same for Secondary resources. Internally at our school I have used a Tiddly Wiki to tag and link to resources stored on the school network, this has been quite successful.

I think this is exactly how the founders of del.icio.us would have liked this tool to be used.

Re: What the DFES report on interactive whiteboards really says

Dan Stucke — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:04:43 -0000

Hi,

I think you summed up exactly what I was trying to say much more eloquently than I did!

Dan

Re: What the DFES report on interactive whiteboards really says

Dan Stucke — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:53:12 -0000

Thanks in advance!

One great thing I find they are useful for is playing games, both specific mathematical games in the context of a lesson. But also slightly less educationally relevant games as a reward for a hard week's work!

Our current class favourite is stick remover:

http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-206.html

Re: I’m giving away a BRAND NEW Dell Netbook and 3G Subscription

Dan Stucke — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:05:00 -0000

A free laptop? Wouldn't that be nice! :)

Re: About

Dan Stucke — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:12:18 -0000

Thanks for the kind words, and the inspiration from your own writings amongst others to start this blog!

Speaking of which, could you tell me how you got your little del.icio.us tag cloud onto your edublog sidebar? Despite my best efforts of fiddling with the sidebar widget I have failed to get anything more than you can see at present!

Thanks,

Dan

Re: About

Dan Stucke — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:25:36 -0000

Thanks Tom,

That's taken me back, I remember the PGCE students from Charlotte Mason coming into my school when I was a kid!

Dan

Re: Web Literacy

Dan Stucke — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:09:19 -0000

Kelly, the blog is certainly starting to gain a little momentum in school. Originally it was planned only two of us would trial it to start with, that has quickly expanded to four! Other departments have also taken an interest also. I think we'll let it grow for another couple of weeks and then take it from there.

Dan

Re: Do Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) Work?

Dan Stucke — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:25:45 -0000

Thanks for the ideas! At present we plan to model a mini-lesson ourselves with staff as pupils, displaying as many board-skills as possible. We then intend to split staff into groups to plan a lesson together. I'm not sure whether to give them a lesson topic or to choose one themselves, the teachers will all teach different subjects. I like the idea of brainstorming it on bubbl.us and sharing ideas - thanks!
I'm also going to supply staff with a list of online resources that they can try out, flickr, bubbl.us etc etc. I'll post that up here when it's done.

Re: Do Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) Work?

Dan Stucke — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:54:51 -0000

I'm still waiting on a list of attendees, once we have it we'll see best how to split into groups. I'm going to have 8 rooms, so we'll have to think carefully about: group size - more ideas vs less time at a board; group make-up - subject/experience etc..

I've set-up a little online questionnaire to try and gauge current experience and skills they want to see.

Re: eeePC

Dan Stucke — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:11:15 -0000

Cheers Jason, I'll let you know how it goes...

Re: Meme: Passion Quilt

Dan Stucke — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:07:12 -0000

Oops! I didn't check that very well! Nevermind :)

Re: eeePC Firefox Plugins/Addons

Dan Stucke — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:22:35 -0000

Thanks Ross, I'll have a look.

Dan

Re: ‘Computers For Pupils’ rolls out

Dan Stucke — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:59:53 -0000

Hi Richard,
Thanks for the link, I've registered and I'll try it out with some pupils in the near future.
Thanks,
Dan

Re: MyMaths.co.uk - A Review

Dan Stucke — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:24:04 -0000

Hi Alex, how are you? I always assume that no-one I actually know reads this thing.

I am still searching for the answer to the homework problem.

When we've set them on mymaths we have always given the pupils at least a week to complete them and expected those without access to use the library computers at some point during that week.

I suppose a limited number of printed copies could be done, a homework tends to run to only two screens.

We've also tried posting old fashioned paper homeworks home this term, there has been a marginally higher completion of these but still not great.

I still don't think we can move to totally online work in the environments we teach in.

Perhaps no homework is the answer?

Re: About

Dan Stucke — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:08:28 -0000

Hi Stan, apologies for such a long delay in replying - I've been 'off network' for most of the summer!

The day went OK, although only having just under an hour with each group limited what we could achieve. I curtailed the creativity a little by getting everyone to make a maze game and showing them how to draw the maze, add a character and map directional control keys to that character. I then left them some hints as to where to take their games to next.

Didn't get round to uploading their games, I'll try and do it when back in school.

Instructions I used are here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/5236778/Scratch-Maze-...

Re: Are half of us rubbish?

Dan Stucke — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:20:04 -0000

Thanks Doug, in reply:

1. It's a fair point ;) Ourselves and English are, for the time being at least, flavour of the month. We all know the reason for this at present. I think it's a shame so much emphasis (and lets be honest, funding) is placed on us at present to the detriment of other subjects.

2. Let's hope so!

I think it's interesting also that the 40% of lessons deemed 'satisfactory' are in fact being classified as not good enough. Another way to look at the statistics would be to say that despite the chronic shortages in many areas only 5% of teaching has been deemed 'unsatisfactory'. Perhaps Ofsted need a new word to describe that calibre of lessons?! Lies, damned lies and statistics :)

Re: Doing things differently…

Dan Stucke — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:41:21 -0000

Yes, both are great, I hope to make time to move this blog in the direction of discussing teaching rather than the tools, especially as my attempts to use web2.0 at school are constantly thwarted by our IT!

Re: Help! - A plea to bring sanity to my attempts to use the Web at school

Dan Stucke — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:45:57 -0000

I know, I don't want to get into a moan about the 'someones' on a public blog, I do have a good working relationship with the IT department and senior leadership, I just need to change their ways!

Re: Help! - A plea to bring sanity to my attempts to use the Web at school

Dan Stucke — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:31:07 -0000

Doug, I'm going to run into that argument, and I can see the point. How does one explain the benefits of putting stuff onto the whole web, not just inside the VLE? Especially when I haven't had the opportunity to extend any of my projects to include collaboration with people outside of our school. Principle is not reason enough I fear.

No gmail access, thank god for iPhone! When I get back from my hols in Feb with a new laptop from NYC I am tempted to jailbreak my iPhone and use the 3G with my personal laptop to bypass all filtering when in school.

Rob, you can indeed but it is at least seen to be auditable, as would google docs, but thats beside the point!

Thanks for your comments.

Re: Help! - A plea to bring sanity to my attempts to use the Web at school

Dan Stucke — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:52:47 -0000

great minds!

Re: Help! - A plea to bring sanity to my attempts to use the Web at school

Dan Stucke — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:41:04 -0000

I couldn't agree more Michelle. It is only a small matter of time until numerous pupils have iphones on their pocket with unlimited data plans. Shortly after that I can see them having netbooks with similar data plans, I'd seriously consider supplying my son/daughter (if I had one!) with one if they had to put up with our network.

Re: Wonderful Wordpress - Or how to leave edublogs…

Dan Stucke — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:13:17 -0000

Sorted, thanks Doug, finally got my own gravatar to show aswell.
Next stop - full rss feeds, not sure why it's shortening them at the moment...

Re: Wonderful Wordpress - Or how to leave edublogs…

Dan Stucke — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:49:38 -0000

It is running through Feedburner, and it's set to full feed in the wordpress options, it's got me a bit mystified at the moment...

Re: 5 reasons to love a MacBook

Dan Stucke — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:30:06 -0000

Cheers Neil, that saved me nearly 5Gb!!!

Re: 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Me Meme

Dan Stucke — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:01:47 -0000

Sorry Richard, I obviously didn't look very hard!!

Re: New ActivBoard Software Incoming

Dan Stucke — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:12:21 -0000

Thanks Mark. I will get around to blogging my initial impressions soon...

Re: Sharing Resources

Dan Stucke — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:25:10 -0000

Thanks Elona, just add 'msow' and then any other tags and we can keep them all together.

Re: Wonderful Wordpress - Or how to leave edublogs…

Dan Stucke — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:26:40 -0000

If you've already got things running on wordpress.org then the export/import process couldn't be simpler. It's a shame, but those ads just aren't appropriate for classroom/pupil blogs.

Re: Sharing Resources

Dan Stucke — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:35:42 -0000

Simon, I know what you mean, agreeing on one tag to bind them all is tricky. I avoided 'maths' as I thought it a little too generic. But my 'msow' is perhaps a little too obscure.
I like the idea of an overall tag, it would mean you don't have to check your whole network stream on a daily basis, but could just run a search, knowing that the results all come from teachers.
Any other opinions on how best to go about this greatly welcome....

Re: Sharing Resources

Dan Stucke — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:09:14 -0000

Thanks!
Have played a little with Diigo, always hear good things about it. Have invested so much time in delicious that I can't bring myself to move over!
Dan

Re: Using Google Docs For Shared Revision Lists

Dan Stucke — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:24:35 -0000

Thanks! I've been thinking of doing something similar with the Assessing Pupil Progress Maths objectives that the LEAs seem keen to inflict upon us.
Good luck with yours!
Dan

Re: Experiments in Spaced Learning

Dan Stucke — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:12:45 -0000

Hi Paul,
Thanks for your comment, I'll keep you updated. Have I got the general gist of the lesson structure 'right'?
Cheers,
Dan

Re: Experiments in Spaced Learning

Dan Stucke — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:53:32 -0000

Lots of rain today so postponed until Wednesday :(

Re: Experiments in Spaced Learning - Initial Impressions

Dan Stucke — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:23:30 -0000

Thanks Lars, I'm going to plough on with this next week, I'll compose a post with a bit more detail in the near future.