DISQUS

Books go out of print, acid free paper is expensive, digital formats change and become unreadable. You could dump your data every week and entrust it to Ben, updating to the latest format and media as you go. Or you could hope that your best ideas are borrowed and live a life of there own (information wants to be free;-)).

Hi Doug,
I am a desktop reader fan, now on netnewswire a mac app. Since getting an iPhone and the netnewswire app for it I found i can go through a lot of my feed pretty quickly on the train to and from work. I don't really rwad the posts fully on he phone but add interesting ones to my clippings folder, these sync t o my desktop app for further perusal.

I really liked the way you describe working with pupils like this. Last session I did a similarly motivating project with some primary children using comic life:
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/classes/primary...

Took a long time but the experience of success kept the pupils on task.

Unconditional Positive Regard in the classroom.

Hi Robert,
Looking good. East Lothian storming ahead on posts.

Hi Robert,
i've found ies4osx a useful tool for checking html on IE from my mac, runs on darwine and is based on ies4linux.
I hope to see an Eee next week at teachMeet.

When I am in that mood, I just keep twitter shut, don't check my mail, ignore my favourites and I don't have a homepage anyway. A couple of hours later I emerge, dazed and dazzled remembering the internet is bigger and stranger that I can know.

Hi Robert,
I think I've fixed my blog as per these instructions.

Hi Robert,
I agree about reading stats, but he more data the better.

http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/stats
is also interesting, although I often forget to check it. There is a nice teachmeet sett peak in the daily post graph. The out of school hours posts still outnumber the ones made during the school day, which surprises me, I though we would see pupil blogging creating a daytime bulge.

Wouldn’t you feel a bit weird if you were told tomorrow that you were going to work for someone but that in your work you would be unable to use any of your personal username/passwords, and would instead have to operate online with a new identity?
no that sounds quite familiar;-) I can't access any email accounts other than my school on at school.

Hi Robert,
On the button with this one, but you can see why twitter and some newspapers use tinyurl.
I'd never use it on a a blog or web page.

Worried never, but it is nice to have a backup;-)
Certainly rss would make more sense, they seem to be using a 3rd party rss javascript widget for that.
The blog or wiki embedding is just a frame so you could use any webpage. I guess ethically you would need to have permission to display a webpage, rss being designed for distribution is less problematic as I see it.

heh, I grabbed a screenshot as evidence.

Yes Robert,
compared to a secure and loving home, school with all ict bells and whistles is just gravy.

I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that the difference between the best and worst teaching would only have a small effect on a child's reading ability. I imagine everything else is the same. How we get this simple need answered in society, is not so simple though.

Hi Robert,
I think your second remark is what I take from the article.
Sounds like lack of training and planning were at the heart of at least some of the problems.
There was a nice bit about 1-1 in geek!ed! - episode 0069.

Superb, I've linked to that from the ScotEduBlogs Wiki.

I am waiting for my web hosting request too.
It looks like the web part and streaming media can be made fully public. Might be a useful alternative to often blocked youtube and google video for hosting large files on school websites and avoiding bandwidth problems.

me too.
But I've never registered any of my schools blogs.

Does this help: What does FOTFLMAO stand for? it did help me;-)

Hi Robert,
I feel as if i am in the same 'lurking' zone too much of the time. One link leads to another and you are lost in wikipedia;-)
Then I end up spending far to much of my 'heads down/on fire time' producing things that will never see the light of day or even get finished. Some of this has to do with the crossover between work and obsession/play, some to do with biting off more than I can chew.

I saw an idea somewhere (heh) that to increase efficiency you should turn your computer on and work without reading emails for the first hour, when I add rss/web pages to that at least I get a good start in the 'head down' sector.

Hopefully scotedublogs.org.uk will help to make the lurking/reading more efficient and less time consuming too.

Congratulations Robert,
Maybe you could comment on the accuracy of How mad must I be to be taking 124 kids across Europe in coaches to ski?;-)
I voted for the bonkers option.

According to the paper at the weekend there is no snow anywhere, you might as well stay and code;-)
Have a good trip.

Entries can be added to the wiki page: ScotEduBlogs Logo

F9 thru 12 are all nice.
I especially like f11 to show the desktop grab a file let the key go and drop it in the current applications window.
You will probably like the next rev of the mac os:
Riding Rails: Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

sorry about the unclosed em tag, I've got to stop doing that.