I’ve been a fan of how East Lothian approach technology in education for some time now, but todays post by David Gilmour bring two things sharply into focus for me.

1. So many local authorities have managed the rollout of Glow across their area centrally, but ELC have essentially asked anyone if they want their login – how fabulous is that? Self-directive learning at it’s best. People don’t need to wait until it’s their schools ‘turn’, rather they can adopt it when they are ready.

2. David has also helpfully created a 5 minute screencast of a quick tour of the different areas of Glow – really helpful as a quick introduction, and great proof that you don’t need a huge marketing budget or professional production to show people how to use something.

Nice job David!

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Yesterday was one of those lovely serendipitous days on the good old inter-blog-o-web thingy. I was following a couple of interesting conversations on Twitter – one about how 140 characters can be a bit frustrating, or could encourage people to be more precise, and another about whether or not Twitter was valuable for CPD. Why is that serendipitous? Well, on that very same day, juliewatt introduced me to Mobatalk, when I saw her tweet about it. Never one to miss a digital opportunity thrown at me, I went and had a look.

Simplicity really – what it allows you to do is record a short bit of video and audio using your webcam and microphone and it sends it to your twitter feed. You can also download the video as an mp4 file from the site if you wish. I’ve seen other tools that do this kind of thing – seesmic springs instantly to mind, but the thing I love about Mobatalk is how simple it is.

I’ve done one about my thoughts on SLF08 – if you were at SLF08 how about sharing your thoughts too? Maybe you could tag it SLF08 (instead of how I tagged mine? – ooops)

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