Love This – Google Docs Newspaper
Google Docs School Newspaper – what a great idea. Laura Chesebro via Jeff Utecht.
Google Docs School Newspaper – what a great idea. Laura Chesebro via Jeff Utecht.
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…
Arrington invests in Code Academy I spotted the excellent Code Academy a few weeks ago. And it looks like I wasn’t alone. It’s received a huge round of funding including from Michael Arrington: What really excites me about Codecademy is that you can learn almost anything this way. All I can think of is how…
Some reading… Like the good old days of ‘edu-blogging’ Lisa Nielsen has compiled 20 great blogs to read. Go add them to your good old fashioned rss reader and enjoy!
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…
A post I’ve been meaning to write for many months… Battles: I have had my battles with Internet filtering in the past, but I’m now the man in charge. Every school I have worked in so far in my opinion has had an old fashioned ‘head in the sand’ view to filtering and acceptable use…