John Johnston

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  • St Pats Kilsyth – Glow Busters

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    On Friday last week I helped Mr Nisbet deliver Glow Buster training at St Patrick’s primary in  Kilsyth.

    Glow Busters are groups of 10 primary 6 pupils who get 2 half days of fairly  in depth training in glow. The plan being that these children can help get other pupils logged onto glow and act as experts in the school. The pupils worked really hard but seem to enjoy the morning. We covered, navigation round glow and some of the external resources, using the Text Editor and picture libraries. The children are taught one of the latter two and then teach and are taught by a partner. The next visit will cover Internet Safety, IPR, some image editing and glow blogging on the Glow buster’s Blog. Clicking on the image above will play a 30 second movie created on my iPhone with ReelDirector.

  • Glow at St Dominic’s

    On Thursday afternoon I was at St Dominic’s Primary working with the p7s and St Dominic’s Glow mentor Ms. Sweeney . They have a great space in the open area of the school with a suite of iMacs. The afternoon was made more interesting by some robust Road Safety singing from the infants in the hall next door. The children have spaces as their topic this term so we used the Space page in the NLC classroom glow group. This links out to several Purple Mass activities, for a bit of fun we used the Alien Profile Creator. The children were able to create amusing profiles for their aliens, save them as PNG files and upload them to the glow group.

    One wee glitch was one pupil attempts to save their work failed. They could name the file, but the standard file dialog box did not open. I’ve seen this on several occasions with PurpleMass activities. A quick screenshot saved the work.

  • This is an Example

    Today I am talking about Blog. Ian (Pictured) has just finished talking about Glow Mail.

  • Posting NLC podcast videos to glow blog

    Glow blogs provide an easy way to post to the web. You can post text, audio & video. The only limit is the upload file size which is limited to 5mbs. This is fine for audio but you need to keep video short and small. There is a way around this. You can have a podcast set up on the NLC Podcast server where is is very easy to post audio and video file of up to 50mb. Here is a screencast showing how easy it is: Uploading a podcast even easier than using a glow blog.

    Once it is there is is simple to post this to your blog:

    These instructions are for Safari (tested on v5)

    1. Go to your podcast server blog where you video si published
    2. Click on the RSS link in the address bar
    3. When Safari displays the feed, highlight the link to the media file and copy
    4. Go to youe glow blog Dashboard, create a new post. Click in the editing box. Paste.
    5. The video link will appear in the editing field. When published the video will show. (you need to have the anarchy plugin turned on)

    Here are some pictures of the process. click the first thumbnail and then on the left to move on.

    and here is an example movie, this one shows how to create a header for your blog using Keynote.

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  • Video Splash Screen

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    Here I have uploaded a video and an image file

    The video’s file name is slides.mov

    the images file name is slides.mov.jpg

    the slides.mov.jpg image replaces the default Anarchy splash screen.

    Music in video by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0

  • ICT Roadshow

    I am at the 3rd ICT Roadshow talking about blogging. It is really easy to put words and pictures onto the internet.

  • Example Movie from podcast server

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    I just copied link from RSS feed in Safari and paste it into visual editor.

  • An Example Blog post

    Blogging is really easy to do.

  • ICT Roadshow

    Tonight I am a the ICT roadshow at St Andrew’s High School. I an talking about blogs.

  • A increasingly slow example

    On the internet no one knows I am a dog!

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