Teach Meet
I have added my name to the growing list of contributors for this year’s Teach Meet. I have not attended Teach Meet before and consider myself a rookie when it comes to blogging and other web 2.0 developments. I am therefore excited about the prospect of meeting up with many of the folk whose writings I read almostdaily, and I am sure I’ll come away from the meeting with lots of new ideas. I intend to use my seven minutes of fame to give a progress report on my project to build up a spatial data base of school based blog sites in Scotland. I started this over the holidays, really out of interest, to plot the location of blogs I regularly read. I had a hunch there would be clusters of bloggers, perhaps reflecting local variations in approach by authorities and schools. I am aware that such clusters may be more apparent than real as they only reflect the blogs which i have either read or come across. I have had some feedback, eg Stuart Meldrum, who posted a comment on creating Google Maps from Google spreadsheets.and who has devised his own map of Scottish schools. I look forward to discussing this at Teach Meet.
Looking forward to this… do we get a preview or do we have to wait?
Interesting map – I was hoping to do something similar with my s2s plotting where on Mull they live with a bit about their town/village in French, but didn’t quite have the patience to work out how, so we resorted to pen and paper (and none the worse for that!). However looking at your Scottish blog map I think the potential is there.
Hey… I’m on the map! Thanks for pointing out the link.
You might want to add Robert Hill and Derek Robertson in Dundee…