Here’s the link to the article by Merlin on agent4change.net.

Thanks for all the comments so far on twitter

http://www.agent4change.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=462:the-innovators-5-jaye-richards&catid=90:the-innovators&Itemid=460

T$F linked to unwind from 2009 over last weekend. Took a couple field trips around L.A.  Always too much too do and too little time.

Caught some good flicks, tons of graf everywhere.  Some super sick burners in the ally behind Safety Cycle..  Ewok/Pose/Rime stunners over there— no pics of it here.

Checked out that new Gallery 66 place, pretty cool- saw that Creature Feature work and purchased a jar of Witches Brew.  There’s a dope Rob One mural on the wall outside, so huge I couldn’t get a photo of the whole thing.

Dope LTS / KOG work around there too..

Stopped by 33 1/3 to get some paint too…
Great El Mac x Retna mural on the way…

Took a couple pics of the back walls, but looked unfinished..
Some MTN sale/signing was going down on Sunday- but no time to come back that spot.

Graffiti is cool, saw alot of this weekend.  Burnt out on that tip, time to focus on other ventures.
Got some cold drinks at the bodega next to 33 1/3, they had some super strange “wanted-style” posters taped in the front.  I love reading this crap.

STOLEN CUSTOMER’S BIKE…
POLICE’S LOOKING FOR THIS GUY!10-30-09 5 hour Energe Drink Steeler!
What a nice Shame guy!!!

10-26-09 What a Shame!!

Hilarious.

Finally, I’ve got round to posting the few slides I used during my presentation at this year’s Scottish Learning festival. As I said at the time, this presentation was my penultimate one on the work I’ve done with GLOW. The last will be this coming week at the SERA09 conference in Perth, when I present the findings from the extended study into the actual effectiveness of GLOW in the classroom. Having used it for two years now, and having seen little improvement in the clunky and unintuitive platform over this time, I think it’s time to look around the edges of the GLOW-blinkers at some of the other things out there which could do the job better and more cost-effectively. In effect, disruptive technologies to the GLOW behemoth itself. This is what I’m currently engaged in with the electronic voting systems work, where the technology enhances the peer-assisted learning through formative assessment approaches.

I think though, that its good news for GLOW that Andrew Brown has just been appointed GLOW-supremo. At last, after a long period of uncertainty and lack-lustre project management, there is someone at the helm with an intuitive feel for 21st century pedagogies. Can he drag GLOW out of its current doldrums and inject some reality into the whole shebang ? this remains to be seen, but it’s the best chance the project has if the injection of yet more public millions is not to alienate hard pressed and IT-cynical teachers across Scotland and their employers, many of whom are struggling to fund the basics under the tightest financial settlement for many years…

From an earlier blog post, the quote from J Spencer still rings true about GLOW…

“Government projects in education fail because they are conceived ‘top down’ by bureaucrats who forget that they have to be made to work by humans on the ground. When you set systems against the grain of human nature you fall into totalitarianism – consequently failure at some point in the future is all but guaranteed”.

This will happen with GLOW unless the project is subjected to some rigerous national impact assessment and evaluation. This is what I’ll be arguing for next week, and I believe it’s absolutely vital if the gains in the use of ICT made over the last two years or so are not to be lost in a welter of budget cuts and indifference.

Here is my presentation from September…

Questo è l’annuncio dell’apertura dello sviluppo di Lucid. Un passo salta subito aglio occhi:

Because Lucid is an LTS, autosyncing will track the Debian testing series for this cycle, rather than Debian unstable as we normally do.

Poiché Lucid è una LTS, l’autosyncing seguirà il ramo Debian testing per questo ciclo, piuttosto che Debian unstable come facciamo normalmente.

Lucid sarà quindi basata su un ramo più conservatore del solito. Dobbiamo però notare che vengono portate delle novità nella politica delle LTS e ufficializzate in un certo modo delle convenzioni note:

• Tutte le LTS d’ora in poi saranno basate su testing
• Il numero di nuove features sarà limitato
• I cambiamenti strutturali dovranno essere evitati il più possibile, effettuandoli se necessari piuttosto nella release precedente (forse una frecciatina a chi si lamentava dell’eccessivo numero di cambiamenti al cuore del sistema in karmic?)

Questi sono dunque i tre obbiettivi definiti delle LTS

• Più testate: grazie al restringimento della finestra di sviluppo e all’espansione del periodo di beta
• Compatibilità con l’hardware recente
• Maggiormente incentrate sul settore enterprise dove la stabilità e le performance vengono prima di tutto

Quindi le LTS non saranno basate sull’introduzione di novità quanto sulla stabilizzazione delle esistenti.

Il fatto di basarla sulla testing non vuol dire un sistema obsoleto in partenza: continuerà ad includere le ultime versioni dei programmi più noti, solo le componenti di base saranno pacchetti più stabili e maggiormente aggiornati, e l’infrastruttura sarà quella di karmic maggiormente stabilizzata.
Dalla 10.10 si dovrebbe tornare al metodo solito per le non LTS.

Che dire: una bella mossa!

done

The first thing I noticed about Glow was how much it looked like Sharepoint—software I consider blocky and a little uninviting.  The look and feel of Glow—especially the spreadsheet-like system that teachers can program to create lessons and task lists for individual students—seemed a little antiquated.  Moreover, the choice of Sharepoint as the skeleton for Glow may stunt the future evolution of the project.  Notwithstanding what Laurie O’Donnell said yesterday about interoperability, it remains to be seen whether porting over content to a future platform, or provider, will be a possibility.  Going forward, this might be a problematic limitation.

Despite Glow’s limitations, it is noteworthy what LTS has done to integrate Glow into the traditional supports available to teachers and schools, and it’s clear that Andrew Brown thinks Glow is ultimately headed in a more user-centric direction.  It might be that the most profound thing about the current version of Glow is that it represents the successful scaling—by an administrative entity, no less—of an environment that provides more or less all teachers with basic social media tools.  From a policy perspective, a question remains whether the implementation of a limited —but accessible—system might represent a better building block for the integration of participatory media into schools than something newer, more open, and more responsive to community modification. 

Whatever the case, it seems that Glow is experiencing a honeymoon period that might allow teachers, administrators and LTS staff members to learn how the project is actually functioning before having to meet potentially unreasonable expectations.  With a little breathing room, it is possible that Glow may evolve, current design issues notwithstanding, into something that can leverage more novel approaches to the use of social media in support of learning.

Craig Wacker

Chicken and the LTS put together another evening of festivity with help from Carhartt, Knog, and 14 Bike Co among others. The race saw zombies and knights in shining armour blasting around Liverpool’s swamped city streets causing trouble for the police, taxis and pedestrians alike – and we wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Beer or water? Tough one…

Third place

Second place

First place

Posessed.

Bilindiği üzre Ubuntu bütün versiyonlarında karizma kod adlar kullanır. Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron, Jaunty Jackalope falan. Sonuçta hepsi yakın anlamdadır aslında. Mesela birkaçı gözüpek şebek, cesur balıkçıl, havalı tavşan …vb. Son sürüm 10.04′ün adı ise Lucid Lynx olacakmış. Hastasıyım bu isimlerin. Lucid şeffaf demek, Lynx de vaşak adlı hayvan. Zaten Pardus eski sürümlerinde bu ismi kullanmıştı. Gayet hoş bir isim olmuş.

Bu işletim sistemi diğer X.04 ler gibi LTS olacakmış. LTS ne şimdi diyenler için şöyle bişi: Long term support. Yani işletim sistemine 2 yıl kadar destek veriliyor. Patch, meç falan olayları işte. Mesele şu anda 9.10 çıktı. Bu LTS değil. Bunun desteği 6 ay sürüyor yamulmuyorsam.

Ubuntu 10.04‘ün çıkış tarihi Nisan 2010 olarak belirlenmiş. Bug-free olacakmış işletim sistemi vhoa. Bakalım öyle mi olacak acep. Gerçi önceki versiyonlarda da öyle kocaman açıklar görmedik. Benim hoşuma gitmeyen şey ise yine GNOME 2.0 kullanılacakmış. Usta KDE 4.3 çıkmış sen hala GNOME 2 ile masaüstü yapıyorsun olmuyor ama. Koy GNOME 3.0‘ı çıktı. Eminim daha çok kişi Ubuntu kullanır. Nitekim KDE 4.3 de çok güzel olmuş. Pardus’u tavsiye ederim.

Things have been very quiet on this blog of late. Now I’ve threatened to go quiet in the past, usually with much fanfare and then kept on blogging anyway. This time, I just sort of faded away. A combination of many things prompted this quasi- web 2.0 disappearance ( I also went very dark on twitter and facebook too) including my daughter getting very ill, a momentous change (for the better) in ‘domestic’ circumstances, a confidence crisis just after getting my promoted post and recovery from surgery and illness. All this stress, I guess, makes you consider just what you are all about and where you want to be. What I have found of late is a rediscovery of the ability to let go of things. Other folk have taken on stuff at work that I previously did, and it’s happened at home too,  and I’m now finding that I’m able to focus very much on me and mine in a way that for two years at least, I think I’d forgotten, or at least lost sight of. So I’ve spent the last 3 months recuperating, hospital visiting (things got a bit hairy there at times, as some of you will be aware !) moving house and looking after teenage children again (something I certainly thought I’d seen the last of !). And I’m now looking forward to the birth of my third grandchild (and first granddaughter). I think having been forced almost to take some time out has been good for me in reflecting upon where I want to be in both my professional and personal lives. I have a much clearer focus, both on the end and the means of getting there.

And there’s much to look forward to over the coming year. My new principal teacher post has a very broad remit !! so much to get my teeth into there, including work on ePortfolios using blogs, Wiki’s and MyGlow in our learning community primary schools as well as continuing the games-based learning work using Guitar Hero World Tour. The EVS research project starts next week in our High school tracking attainment of two parallel S1 classes. We have been busy this week at Glasgow University writing higher order questions for use with the voting system software which really push learning skills at the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. This novel use of voting systems will be tracked over the next few months until March next year.

My next post will be on the continuing GLOW research. I’m going to be giving a presentation on this at the SERA conference in November this year (which will be the last ever time I speak about GLOW, by the way) when we will be making available the data from the extended project which followed an S3/4 cohort through their entire Biology standard grade course using GLOW as the means of delivering ICT. The hard work of writing the journal papers can then begin. Despite a somewhat sniffy attitude from some in Scottish education, this has succeeded in its original purpose (and has been brilliantly supported by the GTCS) in shining a little spotlight on just how effective (or not) GLOW has been in raising attainment and school improvement. I’m just putting the finishing touches to a piece about qualitative aspects of this research, based on an honours thesis written by a research student who looked at GLOW using classroom activity coding.. I think its the first piece of research measuring the effects of GLOW on student engagement and it’s impact upon learning and teaching time. I’m saddened that there is so little evaluation of such an expensive national project taking place, and, I actually think its a shame that in their rush for the ‘full 32’ , Learning and teaching Scotland appears to have sacrificed sound project management on the alter of hype and spin, and that some breathing space for a comprehensive evaluation of the GLOW project nationally so far is now called for. Perhaps the forthcoming government report on this organisation will lead to a more robust approach to quality assurance here.

Time will tell…

Ollie Bray (National Adviser for Learning and Technology Futures of LTS) recently presented at Hand Held Learning 2009 on just this subject and has posted his top 8 suggestions onto his excellent website olliebray.com under the title ‘Free tools for teachers‘

He shares his current top 8 with a copy of the slide show he presented at the conference.  Some excellent ideas here for both primary and secondary teachers.

Manca un mese esatto al rilascio di Ubuntu Kamic Koala che già si parla di Lucid Lynx, la successiva versione LTS che vedrà la luce nell’aprile 2010, seguendo questa roadmap:

3 dicembre 2009 –> Alpha 1
7 gennaio 2010 –> Alpha 2
4 febbraio 2010 –> Alpha 3
4 marzo 2010 –> Alpha 4
18 marzo 2010 –> Beta 1
1 aprile 2010 –> Beta 2
15 aprile 2010 –> RC
29 aprile 2010 –> Release

Salta subito agli occhi il quasi dimezzamento delle alpha, controbilanciato dall’aggiunta di una beta.

In quanto alle novità non è ancora stata resa disponibile la lista completa delle feautures, ma le novità annunciate sono già abbastanza per leccarsi i baffi:

• Innanzitutto stabilizzazione ulteriore di tecnologie introdotte con karmic quali grub2.
• Potenziamento del software center: arriverà a sostituire anche update-manager, synaptic e gdebi.
• Sfruttamento ulteriore delle caratteristiche di upstart per un boot ancora più veloce.
• Ulteriori miglioramenti per quando riguarda l’interfaccia utente e il tema di default.
• Anche se GNOME 3 dovesse fare in tempo, Lucid rimarrà alla serie 2.x.
• Un occhio particolare per la stabilità

Inoltre alcuni features che non hanno trovato posto in karmic:

• Banshee come player musicale predefinito
• Gwibber installato di default
• Maggiore integrazione con wine: quando verrà installato si porterà dietro Clamav, le applicazioni win saranno disponibili nel menù come applicaioni normali e potranno essere disinstallate dal software center, e le impostazioni di wine saranno disponibili nel menù sistema.

Per l’elenco completo delle novità dovremo ancora aspettare un po’.

Aún no se ha publicado Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”, ni siquiera la Beta, pero los de Cannonical no pierden ni un minuto y ya han dado a conocer el nombre de la siguiente release de Ubuntu. El nombre escogido es “Lucid Lynx”, el cual podría traducirse al español como Lince Lúcido. Recordad que esta futura release será una versión de largo soporte (LTS) al igual que la antigua 8.04. Aunque de esto ya hablaremos más adelante, de momento seguiremos el progreso de su antecesor, Karmic Koala.

Vía | Ubuntulife

It looks like this.

…And woah, why the hell is my site full of microsoft related post!  hahaha! Last time I check, I was a Apple Fanboy trolling at Engadget. I kid I kid! LOL. Anyways, so far, we still have no internets because PLDT doesn’t want to approve our DSL application, and you know why, because they are upgrading the i-don’t-know-wootever in our area. Isn’t that lame? Currently, I’m using either my phone’s net connection (which is free by the way) and/or UST’s WiFi connection (also free). Hopefully, we have DSL internetz in our home by the end of the year.

In other news, our fieldwork in LTS will be on September 27 and it will be held at Tarlac. This is going to be fun! I’m so excited.

In movies, last month, I had seen G.I Joe, and recently District 9.

District 9 is one of the BEST scifi films I’ve seen this year. It’s talks about discrimation and you will really learn from it. It’s still showing now in our theaters and I suggest you watch it. Meanwhile, Joe is just your average action/scifi flick. It has some great visuals but the plot is …was there a plot? Anyways, if you love transformers, then you’ll like this.

I also scored some free tickets to see a 20 minute preview of Avatar in SM North IMAX. The event was posh, there was even a buffet and a raffle wherein some 5 lucky individuals won blackberrys, you know, the cellphones. lol. Speaking of Avatar, the 20 minute preview was full of awesomeness!  This film has some nice visuals! And the only way to see it is on IMAX 3D! This is really the movie event of the year! Avatar will be shown on December 18! I’m so going to see this one!

And here are some notable dates this month that you may want to mark on your calendars… or not.

Notable dates this month:

Sept 9 – 9 (2009 film) premiere

Sept 15 – Zune HD launching.

Sept 25 – Surrogates (2009 film) premiere

Sept 27 – LTS Tarlac Fieldwork

Have you ever asked yourself, “How do I find out exactly which version, or release, of Ubunut I have?” There are a few ways of doing this.

The easiest, and most basic, is to open the System Monitor.You do this by going to System > Administration > System Monitor. You then click on the System tab. There you’ll see which version of Ubuntu you’re using, along with your linux kernel, and which version of gnome you have. However, this information can be incomplete. For example, if I do this, I’m told that I have Ubuntu 8.04. Well, I do, but there’s more to it than that.

See, Ubuntu has what’s called point releases for the long term support versions of Ubuntu, which 8.04 is. Check their website here, for an explanation. So, knowing that I have Ubuntu 8.04 does not tell me which point release I have. What can I do if I want that information?? Well, that’s pretty easy too.

I have to open up a terminal. To do that I go into the Accessories menu, and choose Terminal. Then I enter this…

cat /etc/issue.net

And when I do that, I’m told that I have Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS. This let’s me know that I am using the third point release. This is what I wanted to find out.

Any other ways of doing this that you prefer???

Learning and Teaching Scotland’s educational games initiative Consolarium has announced CANVAS, a virtual world allowing local authorities to display pupils’ art. Based on the OpenSim application and created by Aberdeen-based company Second Places, CANVAS (Children’s Art at the National Virtual Arena of Scotland) has the appearance of Second Life while being hosted on LTS servers, so affording them far stricter controls than standard Second Life islands. Each local authority in Scotland will have the opportunity to curate one of 32 separate galleries held on the server.

While I understand the use of OpenSim as suitable for adapting virtual worlds to specific uses, I’m still unsure whether pupils (and indeed, local authority staff) will adapt well to the less than user-friendly camera system within Second Life-style virtual worlds. Is a fully 3D virtual world perhaps unnecessary for the purpose of displaying 2D artworks? I can imagine an application more in common visually with the 2D Club Penguin that would allow users to view artworks without the extra complication of navigating a 3D space.

I’ve just been reading about “glow” a new project just getting underway in Scotland. It’s funded through National Lottery funding, and looks set to do a good deal of research and demonstration before it’s full set up, which I think is great. I’m still to have a good look round the glow website but I’m pretty interested in the way this project develops.

“A pioneering new initiative to bring arts education resources online for schools across Scotland has been launched by the Scottish Arts Council and Learning Teaching Scotland through Glow, the world’s first national intranet for education.” Read the full article at the Scottish Arts Council Website here.

The recent OFSTED report , talking about ICT initiatives in England and Wales makes the following point…

 despite the heavy investment in ICT there was no evidence of the “systematic evaluation of the impact on learning” 

Read the report summary, courtesy of Merlin John online here…

http://bit.ly/hUxZE

I’ve often written about my own feelings on the lack of quantitative research on ICT. I think that with such vast sums of money spent on ICT (including GLOW at some £37.5 millions on development and running costs rising every year) its so important to evaluate this on a cost-benefit basis, and in particular, on its possible impact upon attainment. It was one of the reasons behind my own research last year and the continuation of that research this year.

Whilst there are understandable tensions between school improvement (qualitative and mainly self evaluated) and school achievement (quantitative and attainment driven) and we go too far in one direction at our peril, the fact remains that investment must be justified by measurable gains of some sort. I’m no fan of the current examination system which the SQA itself admits is no longer fit for purpose, but when we get it right, assessment can be used to measure the efficacy of embedding ICT into learning and teaching; that it’s added value to student attainment.

And that’s why, particularly in these very challenging times, financially, we need to pause and evaluate the current state of play with our own national ICT initiative. These’s no denying that GLOW has been a groundbreaking force for good in Scottish education and has changed the way increasing numbers of us do things, but after using it regularly in class and out since October 2007, I know it has it’s faults which need to be addressed, and that’s why any talk of a version 2 needs to be put on hold until a proper evaluation has taken place. We simply cannot, as a nation, afford to invest more millions on a system which has yet, despite the positive spin from LTS, to be used effectively in vast swathes of the country. It’s unfortunately, not yet a national intranet perhaps as much due to political as well as financial constraints, with the two largest cities in the country making little if no progress towards regular wholesale classroom use. Particularly at a time when LA’s all over Scotland are operating in a difficult financial climate which has resulted in teachers being declared surplus in many schools across the country. Further large scale investment without a realistic evaluation and analysis is simply not, in my view, politically expedient.

The big issues, distilled from experience and discussions, as I see them are….

1 – QA and IPR issues are effectively preventing official sharing of resources. The ability to do this would attract many more users. For more discourse on this visit this link and this link

2 – GLOW is initially time consuming, particularly the VLE. This effectively precludes wide scale use as hard pressed staff just don’t have the time to upload resources one by one as well as completing an extensive tagging process. This has been debated extensively on twitter

3 – It’s slow and clunky by design. Uploading resources one at a time, and navigation issues are frustrating. Working through ‘My GLOW groups’ can be a fiendish exercise ! Design is not user-friendly or intuitive compared to using a Wiki or Blog.

To my mind, the cumulative result of this is that GLOW has become a vehicle for primary school projects and a means of facilitating on-line communities of practice populated by teachers and local/national educational organisation colleagues. Some of these GLOW groups are temporary and transient in nature, others have more longevity. Whilst this is certainly a good thing, and a progression of the journey to more widespread use of technology, it is nevertheless stalled at the point of more widespread use in the secondary sector with the very real danger of not meeting the expectations of primary pupils moving across to their secondary schools, and this is, I feel, a tremendous opportunity lost.

I have to admit to feeling disappointment that LTS, as the managing body overseeing GLOW have chosen not to engage in the debate, in any meaningful way, about these issues, but perhaps this is symptomatic of the headlong rush to the supposed holy grail of the ‘full 32’ at the expense of sound project management and full consideration of the pertinent issues, described above. The culture of secrecy surrounding the evolution of GLOW (commercial considerations notwithstanding) is something that disturbs me, particularly in this age of disruptive technologies and flattened hierarchies, where such open and honest engagement would certainly better inform decisions regarding the future directions, although perhaps this is symptomatic again, of the top-down hegemony in our society’s political and social structures and almost, in a way, iatrogenic in nature (with our national bodies cast in the role of physician).

In the spring of last year, I attended a workshop which looked at a series of modifications termed v1.1 which was intended to be a sort of half way house to v2.0 addressing some of the identified design issues. Now this was confidential (due to commercial sensitivity, we were told) but as a year has passed and others have mentioned it, I guess it’s ok to talk about this now, particularly as so many of the proposed modifications were very sensible and would have improved the user experience by no small measure. To my mind, this, coupled with the type of evaluation I’ve proposed above could be an eminently more sensible way in which to proceed . I think we need to get the current model right, and working well across the whole country before proceeding to expensive new models and major redesign processes. With the way and speed web 2.0 technology is progressing, a v2.0 might be an expensive and outdated irrelevance by the time the design and procurement process has been completed.

To summarise,

* I think there is much value in the developmental pathway which has resulted in GLOW groups, but the whole membership process needs to be streamlined. Groups will continue to provide valuable working spaces and resource repositories. The ability to combine tools such as videoconferencing and discussion boards are valuable tools for both learning and teaching and staff development in a safe moderated environment, essential when interacting with students in and out of school.

* The explosion in staff networking, for some folk, their first experiences of on-line collaboration, is very welcome as it provides a taste of what’s possible in the web 2.0 world beyond the ‘walled garden’ of GLOW. This has indeed acted as a springboard into further and more sophisticated on-line communities for many colleagues. The national CPD team are to be commended for their fantastic work in recognising the potential and using GLOW in some very innovative ways.

*Future development of the GLOW platform needs to build on these successes by fine tuning rather than wholesale re-engineering along the lines of the proposed v1.1 modifications, which would address issues of multiple upload, calendar synchronisation, navigation and user-friendliness and more choice in design interface. A v2.0 would be prohibitively expensive, confusing, and maybe even unnecessary, certainly as the majority of Scotland’s teachers have yet to engage with GLOW in any meaningful sense.

* Spending significant sums of money on a v2.0 in the challenging economic climate in which we currently operate would only result in more resistance and opposition to the use of technology from those who may normally be open to the potential for change, particularly with colleagues being made surplus, and so many unemployed teachers across the country. In any case, with the pace of technological change quickening year by year, is a static learning platform which might very rapidly become obsolete best use of scarce public funds. Surely a way of using open source tools in a safe secure environment should be our ultimate goal (visit this link for discourse on this)

* LTS needs to take an advocacy role in bringing together LA’s in order to reach agreement on the QA/IPR sharing resources issues. I really believe that this will be the biggest single factor in encouraging much wider use of GLOW in the secondary sector (other than availability, of course, which will remain an issue for the foreseeable future for vast swathes of the country). I’ve written before on this point. Without this issue being resolved, I don’t see any future for the GLOW Learn VLE which requires a huge investment of time up-front in order to set up courses and complete the tagging process. The ability to share and access ready-made courses could be a huge selling point which would make the time investment much more worthwhile.

* It’s time for a national debate on the future of the GLOW project, along the lines of the recent subject summits, which engages with a comprehensive representation of Scottish teachers, not just those of us who have been involved with GLOW from the start, and the twitter/blog communities, but those who currently are not engaged in the debate

I’ve been working with GLOW for the best part of two academic years now. I think it truly has the potential to change Scottish education for the better. I know this, having extensively evaluated it’s impact on attainment quantitatively and latterly, on more qualitative achievement indicators (as the second phase of my GTCS research). Our classroom coding work may point us in the direction of being able to answer some of the questions posed by John Connell and others as to an explanation of just how the attainment gains are realised. We now have data for a whole student cohort for an entire standard grade course, taught with regular embedded use of GLOW and are currently analysing and discussing this information. Hopefully, the findings from this extended phase of the project will be available, at least in part, by September. However, the original research was all about embedding ICT into the secondary school curriculum. GLOW just happened to be the platform for the delivery of this IT element, it being expedient at the time due to my LA being an early adopter.

Whilst GLOW has been a good entry point for many in their use of technology, what I now have to consider is this… could these gains have been achieved using other web-based technology along the lines of those suggested by the Ed Techie blog ?

Suggestions on a virtual postcard, please….

Iik!

Jännitys on kohonnut tasaiseen tahtiin koko päivän.

Huomenna menen keskustelemaan lainasta pankkiin. LTS on hiottu, laskelmat tehty, keskiviikkoisesta viisauden hampaiden poistosta aiheutunut turvotuskin on jo laskenut. No eikö kirottu tulostimeni sitten ottanut ja mennyt kunnon juntturaan!!! Ei auta uudelleenkäynnistys, ei puhe, eikä edes huuto. Seuraavaksi kokeilen lekaa, mitä isompi, sen parempi! GRRR… Tekniikka on ihmeellistä, eikä ainakaan mun kaveri enää!

Jotain hyvääkin, on yksi uusi pakettikin kolahtanut postilaatikkoon männä viikolla. Puikkoja heiltä tulossa ainakin. Lankoja myös katselin, voi olla että muutama sieltä mukaani valikoituu.

Taidan tästä lähteä siskon luo ilta-ajelulle (sattuneesta syystä)…