Comments for drew.burrett

Comment on Another first – Animoto by Drew

Drew — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:42:18 +0000

Websense strikes again! Hope our upload speed will be ok with our super quick broadband connection, but won’t know ’til the site is unblocked.

Comment on Another first – Animoto by lynnehorn

lynnehorn — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:19:53 +0000

Looks good – my experience of animoto in school was that it was accessible, but took too long for photos to upload, however that was last June, so you never know it may have improved.

Comment on My first Wordle by lynnehorn

lynnehorn — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:18:49 +0000

It’s beautiful!

Comment on Its been a long time…. by AB

AB — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:09:03 +0000

Great to see you back, and grabbing onto the potential of Glow, both in your school and nationally. It never ceases to amaze me that people are so negative. Those that criticise Glow for its capacity and structure would do well to consider the great number of people in Scottish education that have not moved to embraced technology in the classroom at all, let alone in any meaningful way for their students. A technological solution that would see the end of the ‘information sheet’ and put people in touch with each other across the country is in my mind a very good thing. Regarding Independant schools and those not yet having access to Glow, there are ongoing discussions with all the local authorities and SCIS to see how they can be involved. Keep going with the national Group – you couldn’t be more right to set up an area for teachers to share

Comment on How ‘WebSense’ killed my inner child by lynnehorn

lynnehorn — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:29:18 +0000

I keep asking for them to be unblocked, but sometimes it takes a while by which time the moment has gone – one of the things I like about the web is the “let’s have a look at… right now” I have just booked tickets to the screen machine on behalf of my colleagues for a staff night out and amazingly it worked. Don’t give up though, or it looks as though there isn’t a problem..

Comment on How ‘WebSense’ killed my inner child by AB

AB — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:26:20 +0000

in fairness to the powers that be, an alternative filtering solution had to be sought after the withdrawal of iGear, and a considerable number of other LA’s were using Websense.
That said, your story troubles me deeply. If this is your experience as a tech savvy teacher, how far do the less savvy get in this process?
I find it bizarre that we invest so much time in filtering solutions and so little time in teaching information literacy – curious, bearing in mind our objective in education.

Comment on How ‘WebSense’ killed my inner child by John

John — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:49:29 +0000

It is depressing that this still keeps happening.
If teachers were allowed to buy a fridge, book a holiday or get a bargain on eBay at least after school hours how much would it improve there skills?
Seems that some of the powers that be want there aCfE cake but will not allow access to the flour.

Comment on How Brilliant is Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope? by AB

AB — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:16:02 +0000

Don’t give up the ICT Drew – chalk can’t be good for your hands, surely?

Comment on How Brilliant is Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope? by Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope shows us ‘We are not alone’! « Alan Stewart’s Blog

Sat, 17 May 2008 14:08:35 +0000

[...] Drew writes: I was quite excited by the announcement of the release of Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope, as I hoped it’d make for some interesting ‘find out for yourself’ collaborative Web 2.0 work for the kids as part of our up coming ‘Space’ topic. [...]

Comment on Super School, Super Speed & Web(non)Sense by lynnehorn

lynnehorn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:17:59 +0000

Websense isn’t working for us just now so we are back to iGear – I fear its days are numbered though, rumour has it Websense is up and running again.
We have been told by ICT coordinator to keep sending links to be unblocked.