Changes

On March 29, 2010 By

Image by steveluscher via Flickr

At SSIS we are in the middle of a move away from the standalone ICT class and towards a model where ICT skills are taught in an integrated manner in a 1-2-1 laptop environment.

There is no doubt that this is needed. Much of what [...]

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Netvibes

On December 16, 2009 By

We started blogging at SSIS last year in September using Edublogs. Although I really like edublogs and the support I was given the issues we had with blogging due to our lack of bandwidth made the experience fairly painful.

I was pushing for a local install of [...]

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Cooliris Express Builder

On December 9, 2009 By

Cool way of displaying a Flickr Album. Using Cool Iris Express Builder. Boy kids grow up far too fast. Click and hold the mouse button while dragging to pan through the photos and use the roller ball to zoom in and out.

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Looking at Gsites

On March 9, 2008 By

Have been trying to port my Tech Tools Blog to google sites to better understand what I can do with Gsites. So far the move from my WordPress Blog to Gsites has been ok.

moving information from WordPress to Gsites is a straightforward copy and paste miss the flexibility of creating a Menu system in [...]

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21′st Century School

On January 13, 2008 By

I seem to need a course or a project to get me going. I read this post a while back, it was the conclusion of a series of posts. dealing with creating the 21′st century school, by Jeff Utecht,. Back in early January Jeff posted a Continue Reading →