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Reasons to be Scottish…

June 19, 2009 - Comment - By: Chris

Pic: SaltireAs part of the Scottish Diaspora I usually look back at the country of my birth with my head in my hands. But it seems that they’re doing a lot right when it comes to learning with technology. Am I being seduced by good PR?

Cute wee jigsaw puzzle site

June 15, 2009 - Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: 3120977127_fe44d151d1 - online jigsaw puzzle - 24 piecesHere’s a nice wee jigsaw puzzle creator which would be nice for whiteboard activities. Jigsaws are saved as a URL so can be put on blogs, VLE’s etc.
Have a go at my nice but pointless example.
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Don’t film your school play!

May 19, 2009 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Pic: Image - DavidQuick on Flickr
I feel the need to be mean and uncharitable. It’s been that sort of week.
With a few exceptions, all the videos of school productions I’ve seen have been unwatchable tosh. It’s a shame because you know that it’s been

Fliggo – Make your own YouTube

March 2, 2009 - Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: fliggo_logoFliggo allows you to set up your own video sharing site for free. You can then control who has access, who can upload and comment etc.

Prezi – at last, cool presentations!

January 21, 2009 - Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: click the imageHats off to the chaps at Prezi for coming up with a completely novel way of presenting ideas in one brilliant web 2.0 tool.

How not to use a learning platform…

December 12, 2008 - Comment - By: Chris

I was a little taken aback this week after talking to my sister-in-law who is a primary school teacher in the north of England.
The LEA she works with has provided an LP which is great but she was saying…

Audacity – the update

December 10, 2008 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Well, top marks for a speedy answer from the previous post…. Here’s what they said…
“We have some disabled (because buggy and limited) development code that permitted upload of already exported files to a FTP server. This was last

Using Audacity with Sharepoint

December 9, 2008 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

I’m shattered! 
We’re working with one of our partnerships schools on a project with some 11-year olds where they record a desert-island diary entry in Audacity… and create an mp3 out of it.
We want to be able to then

Student Teacher’s VLE project

December 2, 2008 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

We’ve just finished supporting a student English teacher, Amy Knott, in a learning platform based project around the text her Y9 class are reading, Robert Swindells’ Stone Cold.
The main focus was producing a short Audacity… show about homelessness.

Mini Laptops and Learning Platforms

October 31, 2008 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Pic: Advent Netbook (pingpong ball for scale)One of our main strategic goals this year at our CLC is embedding learning platforms in the curriculum. So far, so good. A few departments are really running with them as tools for managing resources and running activities in the…