Don't you just hate it when someone can't do the most simple part of their job, and as a result it puts you out ? I do! It happened to me today with City Link delivery service, so I've decided to send them a message about it, rather than ignore it;
Three different words, but don't they mean the same thing? One of the features of a packaged and paid for VLE seems to be that the pupils have their own "personal space", or their "ePortfolio", or "online storage". In my bid to create our own VLE, I've been pondering just how to set up these areas for our pupils. Afterall, without them I'll never get the VLE finished. The pupils already have their own space when they join our school - its their area on the server when they log into the school network. It stores their own files that they create during their time with us. The only problem with it is that it's only accessible to them whilst they are in school, connected to our network; no good for 24/7 learning.
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If you use Embeditin on your website / blog to embed documents into the page for others to view without the need to download, then you'll be interested in their "Sitewide" plugin.
I've installed it onto the school website and rather than have to convert each file and then add the embed codes one by one, the Sitewide plugin converts a suitable file instantly and displays it onscreen in a stylish pop up, as you can see below;
Things have been moving along steadily since my last posting regarding creating our own VLE.
After a chat with my HT, Google Apps is now set up and I hope to start testing it with a pilot group of children shortly to see how suitable it really is. I'm currently looking for examples of how other schools have been (and are) using Apps with their children, and just what it allows to be achieved.
So it has arrived. The much anticipated and publicised latest version of the iPhone operating system has been released. After downloading it (fortunately before the apple servers cracked under the strain of everyone trying to update at the same time), I've had a bit of a play with it and have to say that it's made quite a difference to the speed.
I've been thinking about mobile broadband recently. In fact, I've spent time thinking about it since I was at a conference and had a very stressful time trying to connect to their network only to find they had filtered internet access and almost caused me to abandon my web based presentation!
I was sent a link to this clip from @carolrainbow. Thought I'd share it.
Watching this, I'm quite happy that (with the exception of the reporting to parents) we're there with our own solution! Everything mentioned is covered within the applications we've chosen :0)
My desire to create a LP ideal for the school (and, let's be honest here my sanity as well), is moving along. Google Apps has been upgraded to the education version, and - after a bit of a delay - the email service is now working without adverts showing up.
I've begun the process of getting Google Apps (Education edition) for school. There have been a few teething problems with the process; the Domain Host settings were a bit tricky to sort but in the end it was achieved and the domain has been verified by google.
At the moment we have google apps - standard edition. The differences with this is that it's limited to 50 users (we could request more if we wanted to), and it supports ads. The education version is ad free - always a positive when children are concerned.
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