I’m really sorry about the delay in replying to your comment. I did notice earlier, then ‘back to work aftern 7 weeks off’ issues took over

Thanks for offering to do this. I’m sure that getting a blog back-up emailed monthly would reassure teachers here.

Thanks for the post. This is a great post

John

It was a very long post – apologies to any readers as I got a bit carried away with the copying and pasting from original sources! (Just as an aside to any other non-techies like myself, I’ve learned that copying from elsewhere works a treat if you hit the HTML tab first before pasting).

That’s a really good point about the demise of Web 2.0 sites. The same thing happened with jumpcut a few months ago. What was pleasing to see though, is that they’re not just disappearing, but sending emails with instructions as to how to retrieve any pics, etc. from their site. I have until November to rescue my bubbleshare data – annoyingly, I missed the deadline for our jumpcut videos

Advising schools to keep copies of originals as you have done seems like a sensible idea!

I’m really pleased that Marc got such a good audience for his writing.

Another aspect to this, which cropped up this week for us with the demise of Bubbleshare.com, is the longevity of Web 2.0 services. Inevitably there’s an element of risk in using these free services, and we’ve accepted that. For the schools involved, we’ve had a lot of useful learning – and fun – from it. The slideshows will vanish from the sites, but they’ve probably served their purpose and copies of the original images will still be on disk in the schools.

With portfolios that are needed long-term, though, we’ll need to be careful to take such risks into account.