John Johnston

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  • iPad Glow blogging

    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).

  • Blogging at St Patrick’s Kilsyth

    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.

  • Saturday Glow Session

    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.

  • GarageBand Again

    This evening I am using GarageBand.  The second RTC course this week is looking at making simple music and podcasts with Garageband.

    jj episode 2

  • RTC GarageBand

    This evening we are mostly podcasting:

    jj episode 1

  • Posting Audio at Golfhill

    Today I am visiting Golfhill to see how they are getting on with their blog. We have looked at how to make headers and post audio,

  • Glow Projects in NLC Tier 2 Training

    I am spending the day watching  Karen-Ann McSwiggan and Sarah Burton of the Glow National Team enthuse a group of NLC secondary teachers about using glow.  They have set a cracking pace covering lots of ideas for using old and new features of glow mixed with time for practical tasks on glow. This is just one of two days of  the second tier of targeted support NLC secondaries are receiving. The Third tier will involed support from the National glow team in the schools involved.

    the official blog post for the day is 2nd Day 1 Session of Tier 2 Training – Thurs 17th Feb

  • GarageBand – Glenmanor p5

    This afternoon I was working with Primary 5 in Glenmanor promary school with GarageBand. The Children worked in pairs to create music using the Loops editor. They sounded as if they were having great fun. The learn to add loops to several tracks and remove loops to shape their music.

    you can listen to some of the creations below. We did not have time at the end of the day to post them to glow where there is a GarageBand group of North Lanarkshire schools.
    emma and fraser:emma and fraser

    mp gw loops mp gw loops

    ly sb song ly sb song

    AS HP loops AS HP loops

    LE LOOPS LE LOOPS

    mcloops mcloops

    My Song My Song

    fc hw loops fc hw loops

    coloopsgps coloopsgps

    lmloops12 lmloops12

  • This Morning I was mostly Blogging

    This morning I was in Sikeside Primary introducing the Primary sixes and sevens to blogging.

    We created a couple of blogs: Sikeside Sixes and Sikeside Sevens I then worked with the classes in turn covering resizing images and posting text and images to the blogs. The children were well prepared with photos and notes about   recent events in school.

    There are now quite a number of glow blogs in North Lanarkshire and it is interesting to see the variety of ways pupils and teachers are blogging.

    NL teachers can get in touch if they want a wee hand starting to blog.

  • Sonic Pics at Thornlie

    Thornlie test

    After a morning of Glow Busting I am showing P 7-6 how to use SonicPics to make slides shows for their blog.

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