Mr Ribas’s blog - Blog de Mr Ribas

Como cada año, en el tercer trimestre de la asignatura de Tecnología Industrial los alumnos tienen que realizar el Proyecto Empresa. Se trata de cubrir todos los aspectos que rodean el desarrollo de un producto tecnológico, como la constitución de una empresa, el estudio de mercado, la elaboración de presupuestos, el diseño artístico y técnico del producto o la realización de campañas de publicidad.

La novedad de este año es que cada grupo va a tener que llevar un diario electrónico (en forma de blog) en el que expliquen lo que van haciendo. Los blogs de los distintos grupos están enlazados en la barra lateral, y también en estos enlaces. (Espero que el tercer grupo halle un nombre comercial en un futuro no lejano)

En este blog iré haciendo referencia a sus progresos e incluyendo información que pueda ser relevante para todos los grupos, así que espero (hint hint) que pongan un enlace en sus barras laterales.

En fin, para terminar, os dejo algunas ideas de productos ¿posibles?

I should comb my hair and sort my clothes… I am expecting visitors!As a newbie edublogger, you don’t expect to get that much community attention… but this morning I read this really interesting post by Sue Waters and posted a comment on it. Sue is always kind enough to reply to all her comments, but this time she went a lot further and quoted me on her next post!

So if you have dropped by following her link, say hello. As you can see, we are still under construction, but we hope to have this place up and running soon. I might put one of those fancy Clustrmaps up just to enjoy the red dots… I am, after all, enjoying Andy Warhol’s fifteen minutes of fame. (Image by Feistypoo)

This blog has been a bit “out of office” lately, and it is probably time to revamp it a bit…

(Image by Ben Scicluna)

I have been reading a lot from other more experienced edubloggers, including super-edublogging guru, Sue Waters, and getting ideas as to how to make this blog gain momentum. So I guess over the next few days (while the Easter break lasts) I will be trying to add more stuff to it. I also hope to find new ways to bring my students through here. I will be updating more of that progress lately, but keep dropping by to see what I am doing with it and give your hints.

Writing a blog is about being read and causing discussion. However, not everything is acceptable.

This is an educational blog. This means I use it to discuss aspects related to the things I talk about in class, which I find relevant or vaguely interesting. Of course it is less “academic” than teaching, and there is more room to be amusing or fun.

On that spirit, one of my first posts was a word play linking something we had learned in Physics with a football game last week. Some people played along and there was a fun discussion there while we all memorised the order of the EM spectrum.

But just today, perhaps feeling too relaxed after their exams, a group of students decided to spam that entry from the school computers. Therefore, I am forced to take the following actions:

• Delete those comments from the site (only the ones posted today)
• Introduce comment moderation from now on. This means that a message posted to the blog will only be posted once I have seen it and approved it.
• Following from the previous, I will only allow comments with a recognisable name and email address.

Eventually I might have to consider closing comments down to only registered users, but I believe that would be defeating the purpose of this blog.

This will either be a useful tool or a meaningless pastime. It’s up to you.