foolfillment: the blog

A quick post. I’ve spent today editing lesson plans and things like that, but also putting together a sort of overview of what wikis are and how they could be useful in education - this is for the students who will be helping me with my research in my final year project. While doing this I remembered the lecture that Ewan McIntosh did at Jordanhill in January on web2.0. I went back and watched it again, this time the one of the actual presentation not the one done afterwards. It’s made me think again about how I can use these things in the classroom. But will I have the chance, will I be able to do these things when I have my own classes? I really hope so but it won’t be until at least probation year - it won’t happen this placement because there just isn’t trhe flexibility in the course (mine - not the pupils’).

I’ve also been playing with carbonmade after Ollie and Ewan (again) talking about it last week. It’s interesting, doesn’t have any two way features that I’ve seen but it could be fantastically useful in schools. Royal High School already has a geat website showcasing the best work to come out of its tech dept but carbonmade could make it easy for all the pupils to do the same - can you imaginge the feeling that kids would get if people looked at their work and talked about it. I’d love to get something set up with the people in my year so that we could set up a reciprocal link - encourage my classes to look at the work of their’s. A similar thing with real people, I know peopl doing industrial design at uni - what if that sort of person commented on a fourth year’s Craft and Design Folio?
Anyway a very quick post with a distinct lack of insight - I’ll come back to this tomorrow.

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