TechStuff 1 April 17, 2007
Posted by Steve in Technotrivia.trackback
Below are listed some of the technical, behind the scenes, type details that have been happening and I have been involved in some way:
- Honours students have been sent invitations to join TIGHONOURS group the last day of Term 1
- at the time of this entry, responses have been weak
- those that have joined have already produced their own synergy as they collaborate with each other
- as an educator, it is fulfilling to observe students create their own synergy
- the Honour’s co-ordinator must be pleased
- The school has subscribed to a hosting service. URL: http://tigs.com.au/
- WordPress Multi-user Application has been set up by Andrew Greenlees who did this outside of normal working hours.
- we tried other open source blog applications but they did not meet my criteria and I was most familiar with WordPress. URL: http://tas.tigs.com.au/ will take one to the super admin site.
- the administrator can interact with any blog created on the site (good)
- Some of my Year 7 Mentees have interacted with me during the April holidays via emails
- the Python people do not seem to be making much progress during the holidays
- the Year 7 workload seems to prevent them from extending themselves in other areas?
- The Junior School asked if a ‘discussion area’ could be set up.
- I set up a Forum area at our new Moodle site. URL: http://tigs.com.au/moodle4tigs/
- The initial setup went smoothly
- I discovered the TIGS email system would not accept emails from the Moodle site (bad)
- Andrew Greenlees again spent numerous hours outside of working hours finding a solution
- The site has been thoroughly tested. Let us hope this is what the Junior School actually wants.
- This is a newer version of Moodle from what I have used in the past.
- I experimented with Edumate2 from home:
- the mark-book is certainly easier to use as compared to the iWise version
- some of my class lists were inaccurate. To whom do we report errors?
- contact details seem to be lacking a lot of data, data that I would have thought would be easy to migrate across. Heaven help the clerical staff if they have to enter the data by keyboard again.
- the Relations within the contact list seem particularly good and should be able to handle any complex family scenario. eg. which parent has access to student records at school.
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