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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Wednesday, 31 May 2006
We, May 31, 2006UK's first educational blogging conference
Catherine Howell (University of Cambridge) tells it best UK's first educational blogging conference: "
Momentum is building for the UK's first educational blogging conference in June 2006. Blog.ac.uk, coordinated by Josie Fraser,
will look at all aspects of blogging 
in (and for) education, across all
sectors, as well as current / future developments in Web 2.0
technologies.
Guest speakers will include Barbra Ganley and Stephen Downes. The conference is aimed broadly at "advanced practitioners", and will function in part as a networking and professional development opportunity for active bloggers in the UK education community."
Community practice... Now there's one for me. Definitely the one for me. Interaction between teachers, kids, parents and the little world around them. Micro communities. I love that stuff, it's when the hairs tingle on the back of your neck. When, your first contact happens.
PLEs? This is Moodle. Either that or the Internet should be thought of as a vast Public Learning Environment. And where ever you settle your hat, hopefully it's a good place to store your memories and thoughts.
The UK's Gov wants kids to have a structured, proven list of learned objects. I guess, as most older people will remember their school notebooks are not that useful now. Neither will be the straight jacketed school PLE.
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in (and for) education, across all
sectors, as well as current / future developments in Web 2.0
technologies. Guest speakers will include Barbra Ganley and Stephen Downes. The conference is aimed broadly at "advanced practitioners", and will function in part as a networking and professional development opportunity for active bloggers in the UK education community."
I'm going too. The great and the good are gathering. Just 50 of us. And a party afterwards at an old haunt of mine, when I was in London as a student, visiting: The ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts). I was an art student after all :-)
From what I can see, I think most will be from a teaching or educationalist background. Not many techies.
The main themes are:
- Deployment of weblogs and related technologies within educational institutions and the learning and teaching environment: navigating risk (morning session);
- Blogging as community practice: impact of weblogs on current and future Personal Learning Environments (afternoon session).
Community practice... Now there's one for me. Definitely the one for me. Interaction between teachers, kids, parents and the little world around them. Micro communities. I love that stuff, it's when the hairs tingle on the back of your neck. When, your first contact happens.
PLEs? This is Moodle. Either that or the Internet should be thought of as a vast Public Learning Environment. And where ever you settle your hat, hopefully it's a good place to store your memories and thoughts.
The UK's Gov wants kids to have a structured, proven list of learned objects. I guess, as most older people will remember their school notebooks are not that useful now. Neither will be the straight jacketed school PLE.
While others are away
Ysgol Craig y Don. Some nice catch ups of their success in the National Urdd Eisteddfod, this year. And they were on telly! A report of the disco dancin' from a pupil. And... A reminder that their football team is off to France on Thursday! To defend their cup. They won last year! It's all good news out of Craig y Don :-)
