Starting out in the Brave New World of Blogging
This is a very first attempt at blogging. How many people say that in their first blog? We have been talking about new developments for the past few months including podcasting, blogging and other on-line collaboration such as photo sharing and wikis. In order to evaluate the usefulness of any of these technologies for education we need to start to use them and see what we get out at the other end.
LTS have been looking at podcasting and blogging lateley and their website has some basic information about how to get started. They have also been hosting a number of seminars on the subject. We sent a couple of delegates to the most recent one at Stirling Management Centre which seems to have been pretty good.
As I start this exercise, I am aiming to keep and open mind and look carefully at the benefits that could be wrought in learning and teaching. As I update this blog over the next few months we shall see how my opinions are modified and developed.
Some of this will start to emerge in the ICT coordinator forums. The next of these will take place in June 2006. At that time we shall have completed the latest on-line evaluation of the use of IT by pupils in P6 and S2. This is the end of a fairly lengthy exercise in evaluation of the use of ICT. The results have been interesting and ought to provide schools with much useful material for their own imporvement planning in relation to ICT.
This is the last day of term before the schools break up for the Easter holidays. That should leave me some time over the next week or two to write up some school reviews and do some more work on the new on-line CPD catalogue.
I’ll come back to this with some more reflections in the very near future.
March 31st, 2006
