The power of Technorati - ONE second ago

Miguel has posted about last night's show - ONE SECOND AGO. How can Technorati search blogs so quickly?!

Comments

[Ann Marie Maxwell]

Hi Ewan,

Thanks for turning up today, 2 hours of David...and Blue...mmm.
I knew "not a jot" about blogging until today. Glad I turned up. I learned to remember when on placement the classroom is full of experts: the kids, so use them.

Cheers,
Ann Marie

[Chris]

Just listened to the podcast from last night - better than getting up in the dark!

[Annie]

Hi Ewan,
I enjoyed much of your lecture this morning.

Firstly, you were at a disadvantage because we'd already been sitting for an hour and those seats are HARD!

Incidentally, this is the first time I have ever commented on a blog and I am at pains not to be negative. However, you referred to blogs A LOT during the first part of the lecture and didn't actually ask us if we knew what they were until 11.24.

Sorry to sound like a sad anorak, but I checked the time because I was a bit frustrated at the assumption that we all knew what you were talking about. I had just written 'What the f*** is a blog?' on my notes, (in an attempt to ease my frustration!) when you asked the question. Hooray! It was good to know what you were talking about.

It all sounds very interesting and you are obviously a 'fanatic' - in the nicest sense of the word. I do hope, however, that ICT never completely takes over from books. You can't curl up in bed with a good website or blog, can you?

Now I've put that question, I suspect that you probably have some minute, hand-held device that allows you to do exactly that!

I'd better stop now. Still glad I went to the lecture, just give us a break next time to ease our aching posteriors!

[Ewan McIntosh]

It was a long session as I remember all Friday mornings (and some Friday afternoons, too) when I was at Jordanhill. Unfortunately I hadn't any control over breaks and posterior wiggling, otherwise we would have had a break.

I was in two minds as to whether I should have mentioned earlier what a blog was. I left it that late because I wanted people to think more about what makes a good learner and what makes a good teacher FIRST. Hopefully everyone got the idea that these two aspects are MORE important than the tools and how to use them.

I got the vibe - and some comments afterwards - that this was the first time for some that they had actually tried putting their finger on these two things, so it was worthwhile maybe getting that out the way.

Obviously the optimum time for explaining blogs is after 23 minutes, not 24!

[Wesley Fryer]

Great you were able to introduce so many folks to blogging and podcasting during this session, Ewan! I'm looking forward to learning more after you post some audio files from today (or yesterday I guess!) Thanks again for your willingness to arise at such an early hour to join in this dialog! We need to come up with a name for our group! I'll post some ideas on the wiki!

[Annie]

Ewan, One result of yesterday's lecture is that I started looking at blogs and - lo and behold - am now a 'blogger' myself. Not sure what I'm going to use it for - having a good whinge from time to time, probably! Not sure that I agree entirely with what you said above about people thinking about what makes good learners and teachers first before discussing what blogs are. When in that situation, I can hardly concentrate for wanting to know the meaning of the thing that hasn't been explained. Maybe that's just the way I learn - we're all different, after all.
Still, thanks for introducing me to blogs. If I find I'm spending all my time blogging and not getting any course work done, I'll be coming after you!!! LOL