Terry’s quasi religious fervour about blogging got me thinking what a normal staffroom would make of the term ‘blogvangelist’ when coming across it for the first time which led me on to the even more buttock-clenchingly embarrassing thought of how teachers might receive a blogvangelist in their midst. Surely with the same enthusiasm and deference reserved for OFSTED Inspectors I’ve always been uneasy with the term because for me it conjures up an image of someone bringing good news about something quite life-transforming. From a blogvangelist I would expect something...

Just a quick 3 minute podcast in Dutch and English in response to John Johnston’s brilliant podcasting day spent at his school’s partner school in the Netherlands. Great stuff. My Dutch is thoroughly awful though and listening to it may be one of the most soul-destroying things I have done since the last soul-destroying thing I did DeRank.mp3 – 800 KB – 3 mins

I’ve been busy over at my NaaceBlog gathering ideas for my blogging session at the 2006 Naace Conference. I thought I would ask my eight- and ten-year-old sons about their blogging and what they thought about moderation and other such issues. The interview can be downloaded below. It’s about 2 MB and 12 minutes long and features me at my most inarticulate. It was impromtu after all. They make some interesting points though. It is interesting that my ten year is more worried about giving out his personal details for fear of receiving junk email rather than cyber-stalkers. I like his...

The Simpsomaker via James

The SchoolBlogs server has been around for years – well since 2001 then. In edublogging terms that is a fair while. It has seen many thousands of weblog sites created – perhaps getting on for ten thousand. Few made the light of day at the chalkface because the server creaked and groaned almost from the beginning and it was deemed too slow and unreliable for classroom life. For me though it was the foundation of most of my early blogging work with students and my tentative steps to forge communication and collaboration with like-minded webloggers. The term edublogger was as yet uncoined....

Last week I met Dave, who is a creative and extremely talented individual. I thought I should record that fact here and link to his developing portfolio. Expect great things from Dave – you heard it here first!