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How times have changed

When a carpenter from Billund in Denmark created a new toy from plastic that could be joined together in 1947 he hit upon a great idea, and Lego as we know it was born.

Exploring the code

I've been fiddling with the coding within the advanced templates on the school website again, and I've found out that I can add images to some areas of the website I didn't think I could.

A year ago...

It was this time last year - at the start of the Easter holidays - that I had the biggest shock of my life. I'd finished a busy spring term, it was the first Saturday of the holidays, and I was relaxing. I'd gone from flat out (the frantic end to a term, podcasts, vodcasts, website posts, assessments, marking, etc) to nothing and my body couldn't cope in it's exhausted state. It broke. And I was left lying in a cardiac ward, post heart attack, and wondering what was going to happen next.

Twitter with the young 'uns

Twitter has been around for a while now, and I've been using it within school for around 18 months. I've previously set up a school Twitter account (@porchester) that is used to tweet the latest articles that appear on the school website - as well as the occasional other piece of news that needs to passed on quickly (think back to the wintry weather at the start of the year).

Shameless publicity

Using iMovie on my MBP, and the AppMakr simulator, I quickly put together this brief demo of the school app showing all the features within it. A shameless plug I know, but there you go :o)

Updates a plenty

One of the features I like about the iPhone is the way it checks whether any of the apps installed on a phone have been updated with newer, or working, versions. This week has seen a steady flow of updates available for the apps on my iPhone.

3D design and making

I took one of the upper school classes this afternoon for an extra ICT session, and chose to focus on the 2Design and Make application within 2Simples Online Tools that we can access through our school website.

Logo assistance

During the last half term, the lower school were busy learning logo using both The Crystal Rain Forest (through the Sherston online Crystal Channel) and Logo within the Online Tools facility from 2Simple.