Today's Fresh Blogs...

• 4am is my new midnight

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:17 pm

  Tags: World Of Ewan, Blc07, Rives, Ted

  Is it possible to be jetlagged four days after coming home from Boston, or am I just looking for an excuse for those afternoon naps and desires to sleep on in the morning? Rives has seven minutes of conspiracy theories about why I might be finding 4am such an attractive time to start waking up.

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• BLC07 Closes - Time to move on from just creativity...

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:53 am

  Tags: Blc07, Creativity, Marco Torres, Stephen Heppell, Blc07, Creativity

  BLC07 - Over and out    Originally uploaded by Edublogger Building Learning Communities 07 has now come to an official end, although posts with the old BLC07 tag will continue to thump through Technorati from this blog. The conference, in a way, marks just the beginning of a refreshed learning journey for myself, for other

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• Sustaining Change with Christian Long and Chris Lehman

  Published: July 20, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Blc07, Building Schools, Socialisation, Blc07

  Chris Lehman is a guy in his mid-thirties who is principal/Head Teacher of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Christian Long has been CEO of DesignShare, and helped Chris create this new school in less than a year. The needs analysis from Chris, the new principal of a school which didn't exist yet, had to take place in only 72 hours

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• Technology redefines talents

  Published: July 20, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Blc07, Collaborative Learning, Communication Tools, Socialisation, Blc07

  High Definition television is great, an advancement in technology that makes multimedia seem even more real. But it's also redefining who is going to be a television star, as some personalities become unusable when every pore can be seen - hi def becomes dicey. The industrial revolution made Herbert Spencer in 1859 design an American school

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• Technology redefines talents

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Digital Divide, Socialisation, Yong Zhao, Assessment, Blc07, China, Economy, Future, Globalisation, Globalization, Mcdonalds, Starbucks

  High Definition television is great, an advancement in technology that makes multimedia seem even more real. But it's also redefining who is going to be a television star, as some personalities become unusable when every pore can be seen - hi def becomes dicey. The industrial revolution made Herbert Spencer in 1859 design an American school

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• Keeping education moving in a war zone

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Blc07, Digital Divide, Glowscotland, Blc07, Glowscotland, Israel

  Har V'Gai school is set in the midst of the border with Lebanon, and owned by 12 villages. 1200 students attend, half from rural settings and half from the cities. Despite learning in a long-term, protracted period of crisis learning has continued to flourish. Dr James Backer explains how. The Israeli youth is an incredibly connected one, with

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• Marco Torres @ BLC: Products of passion

  Published: July 19, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Creativity, Digital Divide, Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Marco Torres, San Fernando, Blc07

  Marco teaches in a school with 5000 students, with 40% staff turnover in two years in San Fernando, and captures his students' minds with multimedia to get them thinking about storytelling, telling their stories, the stories that are important to them, and studying the science of decision-making. Their films are incredible. Communication:A two

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• 4am is my new midnight

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:29 am

  Tags: World Of Ewan, Blc07, Rives, Ted

  Is it possible to be jetlagged four days after coming home from Boston, or am I just looking for an excuse for those afternoon naps and desires to sleep on in the morning? Rives has seven minutes of conspiracy theories about why I might be finding 4am such an attractive time to start waking up.

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• Why some things work for them and fail for everyone else

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:49 am

  Tags: Blc07, Blc07

  I have experienced that feeling, that begrudging felicitation when someone else has tried something and has done it really well, yet the same thing has been a resounding flat liner in my own camp. What made it work for them? Why can the destiny of an idea be affected by a few hundred miles, a language or an individual? Well, after a lot of

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• Read my mind

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:39 am

  Tags: Weblogs, Ewan Mcintosh, Social Bookmarking, Blc07, Del Icio Us, Delicious, Rss, Scotlearnfest07

  I've just spent a fast and furious hour making sure that my online bookmarks are ship-shape and ready for curious eyes to find their way around a little easier than before. I've not tidied them up in 18 months, so the time's not badly spent at all really, especially since it's helped me prepare for these three big forthcoming posts a little

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• BLC07 McIntosh No.1: Why Scotland Has Been Blogging For 5 Million Years

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Blc07, Scotlearnfest07, Socialisation, Blc07, Blogging, Education, Enlightenment, History, Scotland, Scotlearnfest07

  Before the presentation title puts you off, Scotland is blogging. It's education system is arguably using proportionally more social bookmarking, online video sharing, image sharing, wikis, feed readers and blogs than any other country in the world.There are a couple of immediate questions that might need answered here: why blogging and social

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• BLC07 McIntosh No.2: How Public Is Your Public Body?

  Published: August 11, 2007, 11:17 am

  Tags: Audience, Blc07, Communication Tools, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Channel 4, How Public Your Public Body, Matt Locke, November Learning, Bebo, Blc07, Education, Facebook, Myspace, Privacy, Private, Public, Scotlearnfest07

  I don't know one public body, particularly in the education world, that doesn't have the mantra, the strategies or the policies which make sure that stakeholders are consulted, that dialogue is continuously deepened and that the organisation "really gets to know its public". But when you ask the question about how public your public

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• BLC07 McIntosh No.3: We're adopting! A strategy for social media in education

  Published: August 12, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Blc07, Ltsfutures, Edubuzz, East Lothian Council, Blc07, Edubuzz, Elcouncil, Scotlearnfest07

  Social media, and whether or not it's adopted in any organisation, is almost entirely down to the culture of the organisation. But having a culture that doesn't match the aspirations of openness and sharing that would make social media a natural progression for the organisation does not mean that all is lost. East Lothian Council does have a

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• Harry, Hermione and Ron give a clue on digital literacy

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:40 am

  Tags: Audience, Blc07, Ltsfutures, Safety, Security, World Of Ewan, Digital Literacy, Harry Potter, Internet Safety, Order Of The Phoenix, Blc07, Hermione, Potter, Quote, Quotes, Ron Weasley, Security

  They've got it!    Originally uploaded by Edublogger After witnessing the madness of the last Harry Potter book going on sale in Harvard Square, Boston, last month, I wasn't too sure why so many young people (actually, increasingly aging fans) were so keen on the books. But Mrs Edublogger didn't have to drag me out too hard

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• Harry, Hermione and Ron give a clue on digital literacy

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:39 am

  Tags: Audience, Blc07, Ltsfutures, Safety, Security, World Of Ewan, Digital Literacy, Harry Potter, Internet Safety, Order Of The Phoenix, Blc07, Hermione, Potter, Quote, Quotes, Ron Weasley, Security

  They've got it!    Originally uploaded by Edublogger After witnessing the madness of the last Harry Potter book going on sale in Harvard Square, Boston, last month, I wasn't too sure why so many young people (actually, increasingly aging fans) were so keen on the books. But Mrs Edublogger didn't have to drag me out too hard

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