http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org Just another harassed teacher's blog Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:33:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have spent most of this afternoon trying to show my husband how to use Facebookwhich is similar to My Space, Bebo etc but apparently for the ahem... more mature person, or so I'm told! As I guided him through the process of uploading photos, filling in profiles, etc. it ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2007/07/23/online-networks/ This week my son's nursery - Langside Nursery - sent home Ted and asked us to record his adventures. We were given a book to record it and a camera with strict instructions to limit ourselves to 5 photos. That's where my problems began - has anyone every tried telling ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2007/03/29/travelling-ted/ I have just been watching Carronshore's excellent videos of their Scottish poetry. I had been wondering why they had moved to edublogs but having seen these videos and the ease with which you can post them I can see why. So I decided to give it a go myself and post ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2007/02/24/google-video-inspiration/ Today we were unable to see any of the comments that had been left on our school blog because websense had decided to block it. There was my P5 class desperate to see what comments had been posted about their podcast and it was blocked! We couldn't read the comments ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2006/12/14/network-frustrations/ Last night after much tinkering and pushing myself way out of my comfort/understanding zone I managed to embed my Primary 5 French podcast within my school blog - success!! This might not seem like a huge achievement to some of you bloggers out there, but to me it ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2006/12/13/podcasting-delight/ So what have I been up to over the last few weeks? Basically, teaching! I have been trying to get on to Glow and look at the pilot but I managed to lock myself out - entirely my fault as I use the wrong password the magic three times in ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2006/12/01/glow-pilot/ It feels like ages since I was blogging - and I suppose it was. What is my excuse? The usual! I am not going to feel guilty though, as this is a personal blog and supposed to be a pleasurable experience. I have spent a fair bit of time over the ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2006/12/01/ips-news-1/ I have neglected my own blog over the past week mainly because I have been so busy pushing on with all my great inspirational ideas from SETT. Our school website is beginning to take shape with lots of great suggestions from the staff about how to give the ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2006/10/15/what-a-busy-week/ I had a meeting today with Susan Ronnie from Kirlandneuk PS about setting up our French blog between the two schools. It is great to be involved in this kind of collaboration and we both feel it will really benefit the children. Susan had ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2006/10/04/school-blog/ I went on a great twilight course last night - Interview Skills with Shona Carmichael, Primary Consultation. Basically the aims of the course were to outline how to have a successful interview by having an understanding of what school management are looking for, how to answer questions and how to ... http://pammcdowall.edublogs.org/2006/10/04/emotional-intelligence/