The £60m 2-year DCSF project has kicked off at our school. For the uninitiated this is a government funded scheme to put laptops into some of the most disadvantaged homes in the country. To quote: Computers for Pupils Computers for Pupils is a £60 million, two-year programme (2006–2008) aimed at helping some of the most…
eeePCs come pre-installed with the wonderful Firefox browser. The 7-inch screen means that screen real-estate is at a premium so I have listed below some Firefox add-ons that I recommend. Get rid of those pesky adverts: Adblock Plus – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 Adblock Updater – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136 Shrink the menus: Compact Menus 2 – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550 Hide all the…
Well my eeePCs have finally arrived at school and I have to say I’m more than impressed. They may be diminutive in stature but they are feature packed and surprisingly well made for the price (ours were roughly £170 each). Thanks to Ewan Macintosh for the image. So yes, the screen and trackpad are a…
I have introduced a fantastic resource into both of my recent schools over the last 2 years. It continues to impress me to this day and it’s about time I wrote a glowing review of it! MyMaths.co.uk has been around for a couple of years now and continues to grow. When I originally bought it…
“Blue sky thinking” Thanks Frank for tagging me to participate in the meme passion quilt. It’s the first time I’ve been ‘tagged’ in one of these things and I appreciate it 🙂 The picture I chose is a photo I took at Glastonbury Festival some years ago, I got lucky lying by the Jazz stage…
DownloadSquad reports that Google has finally released it’s new version of Jotspot as the rebranded and updated Google Sites, all part of the Google Apps suite. More to come when I’ve had a play around with it. could be a real contender for the educational wiki crown which currently sits with the excellent Wikispaces in…
I came across the excellent Scratch programming tool via an interesting discussion on Classroom2.0. I’m planning on investigating it a little more in the near future, there are a wealth of mathematical possibilities for it from algebra, logic, geometry, probability etc etc etc. However I’ve been thinking of a quick way in to it for…
The Beeb have an amusing news story about a school in Kent who are going to give pupils detention if their parents park in the bus lane outside school. I can just imagine the arguments if we tried to enforce this at our school! 🙂
The Guardian has an article today discussing the rapid adoption of eeePCs in schools, apparently with Ministerial support. I’m still impatiently waiting for my 6 to arrive, they won’t be ordered until the school’s trial of Wi-Fi is underway and as with all things in school that is taking longer than expected 🙁 Jonesieboy’s trials…
Well I’m very excited, in a bid to trial wifi in our school, and spend some of our remaining budget I will be getting at least 6 new eeePCs next week. Initially they will be mainly for web access to the excellent MyMaths and other resources, but I’m sure they will become an integral part…