Hello! Is anybody there?
I’m Alastair Turnbull and this is my second attempt at making my first blog. I had typed up in this box everything I wanted to say, but had timed out through our network and could not publish, hence loosing the lot! If I continue with this blogging, which all being well, I will have to do it at home, or type quicker! ‘Though, I see that there is a button to save and post……….
So here goes for the second attempt………….. A wee bit about me. I have been teaching, rumour has it, for twenty eight years. Currently I have a P5 class of 28 dear, sweet children at Colgrain Primary in Helensburgh (a town about 45 minutes to the west of Glasgow). I am out of class one day a week to help with McRone cover and I take other classes for ICT. We are looking at Smart Software as a possible scheme, but I have plenty of my own ideas and materials to keep me going. I was a member of Masterclass, but have moved on to be a SSDN Mentor. Next week I am taking my first authority level course of the year for teachers, which is a day’s one, “Desktop Publishing Using AppleWorks”. I have taken it before so am not too worried. No teachers have run screaming from the room! (a good sign). I am a keen Mac user both at home and school. At school we use laptops, a wireless network and an OS X Server. Like many new initiatives there were teething problems, but the “techies” are very helpful and supportive.
Well that is about all the news for now, so will have a go at posting this, fingers crossed! I did cheat a bit as it is a long epistle for me (like the big word?), I typed it up in AppleWorks first and copied and pasted, so if there were problems, it would not get lost!
Hoping to hear from anyone,
Alastair
7 responses so far ↓
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Andrew
// Aug 23, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Well Alastair, the answer to your first question is – “Yes”. I’m sure you’ll find over the coming weeks and months that there are lots of people out there, interested to hear how you make use of ICT in teaching and learning and in the future, how you make use of ‘Glow’.
Good idea about typing your blog entry up in another application – if your network connection is not entirely robust, then this is a good idea. It also means that in the future you can note your ideas down anywhere, without having to worry about having a live network connection at the time. I would avoid using MS Word for this though, as it puts in a lot of irrelevant ‘code’ in the background that some feed readers have problems with.
Looking forward to hearing how the in-service course goes!
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Graham Davidson
// Aug 23, 2006 at 2:42 pm
I had similar problems with it timing out but hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a minor problem. Nice to hear from you Alastair.
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alastairturnbull
// Aug 23, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Thanks Andrew and Graham for your replies.
I am a bit confused about the “Glow”, Andrew………
Alastair
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Marlyn Moffat
// Aug 24, 2006 at 11:38 pm
I’ts just a change of name, or are you wanting to know how to change it on your own blog. If you need some help email me. or if you have skype that’ll be quicker cos we can sort it while we talk.
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Alastair
// Aug 25, 2006 at 10:08 am
Thanks everyone!
I have bought a headset and mic for use with skype, have not got round to opening it yet or downloading software. What software do i need?
At home I have been treating myself (no one else does, but do not tell my wife!) to a new 17″ Intel iMac. This has a built in mic and cdamera, so you can see me as well, if you really want to!
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Alastair
// Aug 25, 2006 at 10:10 am
PS I have now ticked the box at the bottom, to notify me if anyone contacts me.
I want to get to other people’s blogs here, on this site, the rest of us glowing people in A & B. I want to send a message of congrats to AB, but where is AB? (and others)
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Ewan McIntosh
// Aug 26, 2006 at 8:24 am
For Skype just go to Skype.com and download the version for Mac there. There’s a bang up-to-date version on ‘Beta’. It’s perfectly stable on my machine and allows video conferencing, too. Head over to my blog adn you’ll see my Skype button should you want to try it out on someone. Welcome to the blogosphere!
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