Networking March 5, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in connect, global, learning, miniLegends, networks.trackback
Look at the way networks can happen! - well, just one important bit of it anyway
Here is the blog of the Assistant Headmaster (Tom Barrett) of the school in the last post - Priestsic Primary. He is helping set up blogs for his school like I am (with your help) for all of our school.
Here is his class blog - Years 5/6. http://priestsic6.learnerblogs.org/
Here is his wiki with a lot of other blogging examples and resources. http://classroomblogging.wikispaces.com/
Tom lives on the other side of the world - England.
His dad lives just up the road from us! 
I know this because Tom contacted me suggesting our school/class blogs connect up.
He asked for some pictures of our school so here are some Virtual Earth maps from last year.
Here is the blog of a teacher who is helping organise class blogs on the wiki Tom created. [We could go to this page and add how we organise our blogging.]
John Johnstone is also a well known class blogger. Here is the blog for classes at his school.
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/index.php
John lives in a different country to Tom. I would like to go to Scotland one day.
I last went to Sydney for a Global Summit (conference) and met another amazing educator also called John - John Connell. He said I should get in touch with John Johnstone. He thought it would be a good idea for our classes to read and comment on each others blogs. This John (who also lives in Scotland) has a wonderful list of blogs around the world.
I met John through a mutual friend Judy O’Connell a very famous Australian blogger!
[We need to ask him to update the link to our new 2007 blog.]
I’m trying to get a list of class blogs connected at ‘create, connect - blog’ and hope to have some lists and links in the ‘blog’ pages.
So there is so much happening out there and I teach a class with so many good ideas (and I have a few of my own) … perhaps I should get networking! 
Perhaps WE should get networking!
Sandaig Otters - Scotland
The AllStars - What country are they from? What year level?
Check out their ‘fake fact’ writing - leave a comment?
Here is the All Stars Blogroll - what do you notice?
The AllStars teacher is Kim Pericles. I remember when she started blogging and chatting to her at the Global Summit in Sydney. She has recently returned from the UK after meeting some of the people above in person.
Networks are often already there - you just have to make the connections. :D
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Al and the MiniLegends - sorry I let the link get out of date - it’s fixed now!! I was lucky enough to meet Kim Pericles (and her colleague, Gail Dyer) when they were in Britain. How nice it was to see them - we had a great chat in London about lots of different things.
We all think it’s brilliant to see schools from different parts of the world network together through their blogs - so keep it up!
Al, this is a great list of ‘connections’ and also a terrific reminder of the power of networking to bind educators together…and form friendships at the same time.
I hope we can collaborate on some projects this year too! Are you ready :-),
Cheers from Sydney Town.
Hi Al,
Thanks for the link and including us in your network. I think we have connected in a small way with most of the blogs you have mentioned. Mrs P visited Sandaig last month.
You can see some of our network at:
http://johnjohnston.homedns.org/maps1/showmap.php?data=sandaig
If you send me a photo of your school and longitude and latitude I’ll add it. (It will end up on the sandaig site eventually)
At OLQP, our Year 5 students will be working with students at St Olivers at Harris Park for a year long project. This year long project will climax with both schools engaging in a sharing expo.
We will be networking and communicating between schools, developing relationships as we are connected to the world via Web 2.0
Hello Al,
What a great post on Networking.
Isn’t the world a small place really?
Lots of links already!
Thanks for the mention - the AllStars will be v. excited tomorrow when
they read it
KimP
Hi from Aberdeen, Scotland
We are pleased to make connections with people from around the world.