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September 20, 2006
After my presentation at the Scottish Learning Festival, I wandered into a bloggy-wikiful session—TeachMeet—in a very warm room, but with wine. I walked in on a demo of JumpCut, an online video editing program that lets people share clips. It looked very cool. Next an English teacher talks about transposing "process writing"—students commenting on students—into blogs with coments. (It might be a good use of the document commenting system at www.quicktopic.com.) Another 7-minute presentation is on using Flickr's annotation tool in a classroom. Why in the classroom reenactment of a Viking raid does one child not havea shield? Because he has a two-handed axe. He points to BubbleShare.com as a fun site for kids. A couple talks about Kids Connect, an island in secondLife for kids. There they taught basic Second Life skills, including script pet rocks with sounds. (Damn. The bloggers and Net geeks are going out to dinner but I'm committed to a speakers' dinner. Oh well. That'll be fun, too.) [Tags: education scottish_learning_festival blogging] Posted
by D. Weinberger at September 20, 2006 01:28 PM
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I was really scunnered that I missed your keynote - I had to go back and teach a class. I'm now even more scunnered that you joined us at the TeachMeet... perhaps I'd better re-phrase, I'm scunnered at myself because I didn't notice you had joined us. I would have loved to say hello. :-)
Posted by: David Muir | September 21, 2006 07:04 PM
Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your presentation at the Scottish Learning Festival.
I started a library and information studies course last year which has included lots of cataloguing and classification work for physical materials though it has also touched on online metadata and tagging. As I work on the Learning and Teaching Scotland website I was wondering about how far these traditional structures translate into the online world - but I didn't get any further than some very vague thoughts about things not needing to be in a tree structure any more - your presentation was really enlightening and I look forward to reading your book - thanks very much and I'm glad you enjoyed your visit to Glasgow.
Lucy
Posted by: Lucy Crichton | September 22, 2006 05:18 PM
As one of the "The bloggers and Net geeks" that went out for dinner (Though I am not sure I count myself as either) I am sorry you couldn't make it for dinner either.
I am afraid I missed your keynote at SETT but several people raved about and I have now watched it at http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/sett/
Maybe you can join us next year
Ian
Posted by: Ian Stuart | October 1, 2006 12:41 PM
As the blogging English teacher to whom you spoke after the session, I'd like to thank you for the suggestion about quicktopic.com - I'm intending to try it out with a student in the coming week or so.
Posted by: chris | October 1, 2006 08:12 PM