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Is it time for L.A's to embrace new technologies?

Looking on Twitter today I saw that @icklekid has posted the following tweet;

"E-safety work finished! download here http://southwarkict.wordpress.com/"

Clicking the link goes to one of Claire's blogs in which she makes freely available a great scheme of work for e-safety for the Autumn Term covering Y1 - Y6 pupils. All that hard work, happily shared with other teachers around the twitterverse. Great work Claire!

How hard it is to do a job properly?

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;

Personal Space? ePortfolio? Online Storage?

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.

Embed It All, Everywhere

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;