This is such a great idea! That said, I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to get these to work, particularly the jump (#1) activities in Madrid Measures. Does anyone have any screencasts? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for this great resource!

Hi Tom
First: thank you very much indeed for your blog. It's been a source of excellent ideas, links and inspiration for this practising teacher, such as it's hard to find in our sadly over-regulated target-driven world of education. Selfishly, I really hope your promotion to management doesn't get in the way...

Heartily sick of our learning platform (slow, featureless and poorly designed) I fell to wondering about plugging the gap between it and future plans to build our own moodle-based site. Google Apps seems to be the answer.

* How did you go about setting up (from your end)?
* Did you face much resistance from your LA?
* Do you think really need a VLE if you are using Apps?
* Have you come across any security issues?


A brief anecdote will serve to illustrate the point:
I've been using Kaltura's Management console to re-direct Youtube videos onto our learning platform - Kaltura gives you a nice player complete with playlist and isn't hit by filters... also it also has no onsite video outlet apart from embedded players which can be tucked safely behind a password . I updated a playlist, copied the embed code and pasted it to a nice new page on the VLE. It didn't work. I retried several times with no luck. For consolation I turned to the "experimental" Google site I've been playing with to see if it encountered any problems. It had already updated its video player...

Hope to hear from you

Tim Brook
www.magiclanternlearning.co.uk

Zoomed in on my house in San Francisco. Awesome!

Your 3 educational ideas are great. I love the Storybook Earth - it makes so much sense. I had the same idea about Connect Collaborate Content years ago before all the social media and Web 2.0 and made it. It's My eCoach http://my-ecoach.com.

We have over 15,000 members, 50,000 resources and projects, builders that let members collaborate and embed Web 2.0, tags that link people, resources, and projects, teams for coaching, surveys, quizzes, coaching and reporting tools, and more. This has been my passion for over 12 years. I'd like your feedback to see if this is kind of what you are talking about.

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In regards to http://edte.ch/blog/2007/03/10/uses-for-wikihow... would also make a good article. The steps that you have further down in the page fit it almost perfectly. There are similar articles, you would just need a different approach!!!

I am an editor from wikiHow.

Teresa

Hi Tom, Sorry I missed you at BETT..want to discuss possible sponsorship of TeachMeet?

Hi Tom, trying to encourage a group of pupils in my Business Studies classes (ranging from S2 to S6) to put together an online business magazine focusing on all different areas of business. The main aims are to a) increase awareness and enthusiasm of business outside of the classroom and b) to focus on improving literacy and getting pupils writing for enjoyment. Obviously difficult to generate traffic, especially in its infancy when the pupils need most encouragement. Any ideas how to do this?

You can see the first couple of articles they have published at http://mralexanderspupilblog.blogspot.com/

Thanks in advance!

I created a website that allows teachers to create interactive review games for their students.
http://www.bubbabrain.com Play the demo game on the homepage to understand how it works

Hi
I am hoping to establish a class Blog for my Year one class next year but not sure where and how to start
Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated as this is unchartered waters for me
Regards
Dianne

Hello Mr. Barrett,
I already once had contact and posted an idea on wordle. I have a question. Is it possible, that I can have access to all of your good-ideas presentations on google docs? I have some in my folder and everytime if there is a new idea I can see it, as it is showing up bold. But there are some that are just only copys, but they dont become updated. Hope you will understand what I am talking about, as my English is just basic and poor :(
Best regards
Evelyn Frank
uhg.frank@googlemail.com

Hello Mr. Barrett,
I love all your Ideas how to integrate ICT into the classroom. We are also on the way and I follow your twitterpost as also your postings, wherever I can read something new. I have a question. I would love to have access to all your presentations in google docs. Is this possible? So that I can see if there are any new ideas? With some it is possible and I can see that there are latest entries or changes, but I have not access to all your good presentations. Hope you can understand me, as my English is just basic and poor :(

Thank you in advance and best regards
Evelyn Frank - Munich/Germany

Tom, Teachmeet and your involvement in it ahs changed education. Lots of people might not agree but this grass roots approach to propopgating the use of IT in education, is hugely important. I may not be a teacher or possibl;y even an 'educationalist', but after 20 years in the edu business I know change when I see it!

Tom,
Can you give me access to post some concepts about using google wave for collaborative note taking on your 'interesting ways' page? we have been exploring this concept over at http://edume.me

Hi Tom
My colleague Mike Shaw pointed me in the direction of your blog. I work on the TES website. I wondered if you would be willing to add some of your interesting ways slides to the Resources section of the website. I know they would go down really well with our users.
Best wishes
Gail
Gail Robinson, Web production manager

Hi Tom,

I managed to get to your blog via Teachers TV. While I was watching the programme the pupils were collaborative work in maths involving times tables. Can you direct me to the site.

Tom,
I am researching information to update a course at Beacon Educator: http://www.beaconeducator.com/

I would like to add a link from the course, Enhancing the Classroom with Technology, to your google doc, Ways to use Google Earth. It is an excellent example of the use of google docs for collaboration - and of course, good examples of uses for Google Earth.

I'm just beginning work on the course, so it won't be updated for several months, but the content and links on it should remain active for a year or more from when it goes active. Would you mind if I link to your google doc and will the link to Ways to Use Google Earth remain active? Do you at some point remove or "unshare" docs, that would result in an invalid/broken link -- or will the google doc remaining live and shared with everyone?

Thank-you for your continued help and contributions,
Rhonda

Hey great blog - I check it out everyday.

saw that you are now on google wave! super cool.

any chance you can invite me as well?

sjoddo@gmail.com

I would appreciate it,

Sebastian

I am a teacher of primary interested in the stories, the writing and the technology.
It is a pleasure to read your post. Thank you from Galicia, Spain!

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Hallo my name is christine. I am the owner of the website www.catlux.de. it offers online help for students in germany.
There are a lot of documents for all typs of school. You can download it as a word documnet (for teachers) or as a PDF-file (most for privat users because I take a lot of school-fonts). Becaus there is a lot of traffic for downloading, I require a yearly fee of 29,-- euros. You can download so often you want documents. Greetings from nürnberg

Hi Tom
I am getting blogging going at my school in Manchester and would really appreciate some feedback if you have a moment. We are getting lots of traffic when I plug the blog, and our kids are using it very heavily (40+comments yesterday) but I want the kids to start generating the traffic. Any ideas?

You can see our blog here:

http://yeartwo.chorltonparkblogs.net/

Thanks,
Jack Sloan
Manchester

Hi Tom Thanks for today at your school. now I want to get cracking on this and get blogging. Any tutorials?

John SLICT