Today Morag is talking to a group of NLC Head Teachers about e-Portfolios.
I am blogging about it. blogging is easy, I would expect a longer and better piece of writing by a primary 6!
Today i am in Stepps Primary talking to an extremely good looking and intelligent primary 7. We are learning to use a webblog. Primary 7 will soon be starting to blog at Stepps Sevens.
This afternoon I am at Glenmanor showing how easy it is to blog.
Blogsy is a new iPad blog editor that has a lot of useful features. It allow you to blog photos from Flickr and a couple of other photo sites, video from YouTube and also to load a webpage and drag images into the post.
You type in a code view:
And then swipe to a preview combined with some text formatting and the drag and drop interface. You swipe again to go back to the code view. The text formatting works in both views.
You can also use the built in browser to add links to as well as photos from other sites.
A wee problem is that the app doesn’t upload photos to your blog but hotlinks the ones dragged in. This might give problems if the image is removed and also does not attribute the images in any way.
Blogsy works with wordpress.com, self hosted wordpress blogs and blogger ones. I could not get it to work with my pivot blog although pivot supports the MetaWeblogAPI.
I am going to try to post this to a wordpress and blogger blogs using the settings (a couple of test blogs). I got an error trying to post to blogger. Since the HTML links to images and is nice & clean I’ll post it to My World Wide Wall Display blog by copying the HTML and pasting into Safari. Pivot’s mobile interface is nice
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If Glow blogs get the metaweblogAPI sorted out this could be a useful app for class blogging in Scotland.
pasting into the web interface works in a glow blog.
I had a great time yesterday afternoon working with the primary sevens at Glencairn Primary. The children had already prepared some great characters and backgrounds. They picked up animation very quickly.
The video above mixes their animations some stop-motion (one clip from I Can Animate and one from the iPhone iMotion App) and clips of the pupils working.
NLC Glow users can see the animations along with ones from other schools on the ICT for Pupils – Animation Glow group.
I spent the morning at St Mary’s Primary working with primary 6-7 using GarageBand to make music.
The music files were uploaded to the NLC GarageBand glow group where you can hear them all (Glow loging required).
Att he end of the morning we took 15 minutes to make this short movie about working with GarageBand.
Today I am blogging at St Timothy’s. We are going to set up a mulit school blog.
iPad unpacking by ntr23
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
this is a quick test of blogging to a glow blog from an iPad.
It seem to work out ok. The only problem is that you cannot use the wysiwyg editor. I expected that to mean you couldn’t just put in a return and expect a new line and expect a new line. This would mean putting in <p> tags which would be a bit of a hassle. Fortunately it turns out that wordpress puts paragraph breaks in.
The other potential problem is posting images. Safari on iOS does not support file upload. This is easily enough worked around by embedding images from Flickr. In this post I used my simple Flickr search to find and embed an image with attribution.
It would be simple enough to use an app to upload a file to Flickr and then embed it.
I’ve written this post in the word press dashboard but I might, in the future, type the post in the notes app and paste it into the word press editor to have a wee bit more space. I would certainly not count out the iPad as a blogging tool. (the ipad 2 announced this week looks like an even more compelling device than this one).
This morning I am visiting the primary 7 in St Patrick’s Kilsyth. We are learning how to post to a blog. Things have speeded up since we have stopped using Mrs Morgan’s macbook.
Karen-Ann from RM and Katie from LTS are leading a very keen (Saturday) group of North Lanarkshirethorugh some advanced glow features including Blogs & e-portfolios as part of the NLC Glow Projects. For myself, as a primary person, it is really interesting to see how secondaries are using glow already and how they plan to take it forward. It will be worth watching the NLC Glow Projects blog to see how things shape up.
