Using Sosius on the ONLINE cource for TL

For most of a week I have been using Sosius in connection with following the first  ONLINE event Worldwide for TL and LT
Sosius was new to me, but very soon I found my way into this free LMS software.
I have these suggestions:
Sosius is a little heavy – specially on a Mobil connection via G3-mobilphone

• I asked in the HELP-forum to solve the problem with EDIT in the discussions. and they respond – but I was not sure this was implemented. The problem is that EDIT either is ON of OFF for all – I would like to be able to turn on EDIT for your own posts – and NO-EDIT for others
• I miss a “arrow up”  When going down in a folder – and coming out of Sosius to e.g. Voicetread – I was not able to get back via the Backspace in Firefox
• I miss a better way to set up RSS-feeds from my own postings, so I am sure to follow answers in my own mailbox – Sosius automatic sender RSS-feeds when someone reacting
• I miss very much – treaded MSG like en e.g. First-Class. With so many attendees (227) is hard to follow everything when the debates are “flat”

But saying that Sosius was doing the job – just want Sosius to an even better job next time

 

Day5: David

Sorry, no more refelctions from me today as I am busy with Davids presentation today!

David page: http://www.librarymedia.net/ysl.htm

Davids introduction: mms://151.198.212.3/lmc

Comments here on Sosius:

ONLINE in real-time at 9.00 CST TODAY or at your localtime

Se you there?

 

Day2: Patricia Carmichael

You don’t teach collaboration; you just do it.

Going from Voicetread I miss you voice here Patricia, and I miss the active URL.s working in the ppt.-files presented in the iPaper-version.

Normaly its easy to download the PP here to your own PC, but in this case its was impossible (for me) ;-(

But here was good examples of using a wiki for a project vith pupils.

 

Day 2: Arlene Lipkewich

Again a nice Voicetread about: Hardware, Software and “Webware”: Technologies for Learning. How can they be used in teacher and student learning?

Interesting that the “lack og the teachervoice” trigged the participants to a very interesting avtivity in text and words.

It was not on all pictures i understood the meaning displaying a picture – but many of the comments was very interesting!

 

Day1: Welcome by Sandra Lee

Sandra Lee was presenting in the lovly Voicetread and with a nice presentation and a nice picture fra Vancouver.

Please stay tuned on… this cource is going to be interesting!

 

Day 1 Building a SL in 23 days – in Hongkong

Here in Norway we have a saying that to build a good school library takes at least 10 years wirh the same person as librarian.

Thanks, Dianne McKenzie for a interesting talk building your  SL in 23 days!

I would like to know a little more about the interaktion with the teachers BEFORE this library was born – in the planingprosess. I wonder how your books was organized and why your shelfs don´t have wheels – to better refurbished next time you want to re-arrange your library. And still on the very last pictures the pupils is still sitting on the floor – perhaps its time for new “furnitures”?

I Denmark they are fast to arrange a new library – took 3 minutes
(but this was a public library)
- look here:

Hjørring Bibliotek / Hjoerring Library – Timelapse
from Peter Martin Jorgensen on Vimeo.

 

Day 1 – problems with Sosius and permissions

Waiting to begin this cource and ready for “fight”

But this very first day we got 3 problems – and I believe they have something to do with wrong settings!

• Trying to access the VoiceTread at day 1: http://voicethread.com/share/359061/ – failed:  NO ACCESS
• Trying to edit a post in the discussions failed – NO EDIT ACCESS -  (no pensil and X on the top of my entries)
• Using HELP in Sosius – and is now wating for this
• Testing out the chatroom in Sosius -I dont think this is working by now?

Trying to sent letters to Canada (1.00 AM) and to Hongkong (5.00AM) – and I am now waiting for some answers

Fritay 20.2.09 at 3.30 PM Oslo-time these bugs was not corrected

Sunday morning 8.00 AM CET (Central European Time) the edit-problems was solved – but still the chat-options to working as expected?
- as far I can see Sosius dont allow edit only for your own posts – but for NONE – or for ALL  (bug)

Have a nice weekend to all!

 

Welcome

In conection with the Online cource YourSchoolLibrary feb 20.09 to March 1,  I will present myself here:

Niels Damgaard at work!

I am a national senior advisor working in Norway with teachers and librarians preparing these for running a school library in primary – or in upper secondary schools. But I am NOT an English teacher and never been one, and I am still learning English, so don´t point fingers of my bad English writing

I am educated teacher from Denmark and have been working (on the floor) as a teacher (mostly with immigrants) in Danish as a second language – and with setting up and running school libraries in Denmark, Greenland and Norway i 15 years. I have been headmaster on a very little school on a  small island – Christiansø far out in the Baltic Sea – and headmaster on a school for children from Bosnia coming to Denmark in the 90´ties. The last 12 years I have worked  in a nationalNorwegian company – Biblioteksentralen – providing everything the Norwegian public libraries needs to build up and maintain its libraries.

In 10 year I have been a extern lector on the University of Agder (Southern part of Norway)  running courses on Internet for teachers and librarians who works – or want to work in the public schools of Norway. The last year I am running a 12 month course – the Web 2.0 School – one day a month – providing education for librarians working with the new tools.

In this moment I am preparing a Norwegian conferance for school librarians from 26.-27. of March 2009 – and we expect more than 100 attendees to listen to e.g. Dr. Ross Tod and a lot of other famous (in Norway) persons.