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  • NextGen Slideshow Fixed - 2011-09-17 20:53:34 -

    I uninstalled the NextGEN plugin and reinstalled it but my gallery links were demolished. I will re-import them to set up a new link table - when I have time. Thanks again for the heads up.

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  • Post Revamp - 2011-09-15 12:59:30 -

    No I am not giving up on blogging or podcasting!

    On the contrary, I have 96 private postings from the last 14 months on various topics which I shared with 43 WordPress trainees. 29 of these WordPress enthusiasts are from the eTwinning community and the remainder are teachers from around Ireland and some PC users who attended last year's Digital Bootcamp organised by the INTo and delivered by Apple last summer in Alexander College, Dublin.

    I will tidy them up, especially the posts with links and publish them (publicly) over the next few weeks.

    Thanks for the "Back 2 School" emails.

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#Great12 Dublin

Global Resources in Education and Technology Conference
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012  *  13.00 – 16.00 hrs

The School of Nursing,  Dublin City University

 The FREE conference is organised by the 2nd Year MA in Educational Technology students of Michigan State University.

It is open to all 1st, 2nd and 3rd level educators.

REGISTER HERE

The Keynote Speaker is Fred Boss  @fboss

 

Audacity 2.0.1 Release

 

Audacity 2.0.1 has been released  just in time for my summer holidays.

  • Users upgrading to 2.0 versions from 1.3.6 or earlier must download the latest version of the LAME MP3 encoder.
  • The Windows installer for 2.0 versions will replace 1.2.x or any previous 2.0.x installation, but install alongside legacy 1.3.x Beta versions. It is strongly recommended to uninstall previous Beta versions.
  • You may see the error Application configuration incorrect when launching Audacity after installation. This mainly affects some Windows XP or 2000 machines. This can be fixed by downloading and installing the appropriate Microsoft “Redistributable Package” as follows:
    Be sure to get the correct package according to whether you have 32-bit or 64-bit Windows. To check, right-click over My Computer and choose Properties. If 64-bit is not mentioned, you have 32-bit.

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Happy Saint Patricks Day

Feb29th Let's Blog

It is a minute past midnight on February 29th 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. The leap day is well on its way elsewhere as the day began in Tonga several hours ago.

Do not put in the www before the feb29th.net or you will sent to an incorrect page on the site. Click on the logo above or follow any of the links on this post.

 

Feb29th.net is a global blogging project designed for all age groups and continents. It is now open for posts for today only. It is hoped that “this blog will capture posts from all over our planet on this rare day until midnight in the Western Pacific. The result will not only be a celebration of technology, but a celebration of audience and purpose, who will be the youngest author? Who will be the oldest? Which country will top the most posts? Will there be any marriage proposals?”

I will blog on the Feb29th.net site later on today as many of my teaching friends and colleagues are retiring today.

 

XBMC 11 Eden: RC1

 

 

I just got my belated birthday present today in the form of the XBMC Eden Release Candidate 1. It literally gets better everyday The source code on this media centre is updated on a nightly basis. It even works on Rasberry Pi – check out the video in my Vodpod collection in the left sidebar.

Grouply to be or not to be


I was shocked to find that the Educational Podcasters web presence http://educationalpodcasters.grouply.com on Grouply.com had ceased to exist without warning today

It was all working perfectly yesterday when I offered my few cents worth on the Berhinger XENYX X1222USB faulty special effects generator query.

Now nothing is visible or accessible. Apparently, all the postings, images and links seem to be lost for good. I was offered was a link to a zipped file of the membership database and that’s it.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who viewed the site. A special thanks to the 51 members who took the trouble to join the group and my deepest gratitude goes to the 14 regular contibutors who offered interesting shoe string solutions to everyday recording problems in a classroom and educational environment.

Facebook Awards Digital Citizenship Research Grant to European Schoolnet

It is the second day of the second week of the second month and that can only mean one thing . . .  it is Safer Internet Day (SID). Don’t forget to check out Webwise for great activities for primary and postprimary students.

But much to my surprise, my daily trawl of Facebook under the following searches: etwinning, insafe, european schoolnet and comenius, pulled up this nugget of information a few minutes ago. There is no mention of it on Twitter, the eTwinning portal or European Schoolnet. Maybe they don’t know yet!? Congratulations to everyone involved! Full press release on the following link.

Facebook Awards Digital Citizenship Research Grant to European Schoolnet.

“We are happy to report that one grant will be awarded in Europe, to European Schoolnet (EUN) for the SMILE (Social Media in Learning and Education) Action Research project. EUN’s mission is to transform teaching and learning through the integration of innovative technology and SMILE will be an important part of that work.”

” SMILE will focus on teachers who are eager to experiment with new learning scenarios and share their experiences with others in their schools, regions, and countries. The research aims to prove that active use of social media in class can improve teachers’ and pupils’ ability to address with online safety incidents such as bullying.”

I couldn’t find a link to SMILE so I presume it is in the pipeline. Once again – Well Done to everyone in EUN and a big thank you to Facebook.

 

Web Goes On Strike Today

“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us.. There isn’t an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There’s just the Internet.”

- Hillary Clinton (United States Secretary of State)

Blog Action Day - Let's Talk About FOOD

I am proud to take part in Blog Action Day Oct 16, 2011 www.blogactionday.org/
 

The TV channels are littered with food and cookery programmes. Despite the fact that obesity is reaching crisis proportions in the western world. Food ingredients are featured whose environmental footprints are unsustainable.

On the flip side, climate change has resulted in flooding and droughts on a global scale.  The poor and vunerable both in the west and  developing countries are the first to be compromised. The Euro crisis, the fuel crisis and the world water shortage are all impacting on the cost and availability of staple food items. The abandonment of a low paying agricultural life style in favour of a congested city life has led to a change in eating habits, further demands on urban resources and an exponential growth in urban populations worldwide. The sight of children and adults begging and scavenging for food in bins and at city dumps are testomtomy to a society failing to cope with a food shortage .

As recent history has shown, market forces respond to currency depreciation, crop failures, flooding and droughts.  They don’t care about regional catastrophes. The overnight increase in market price reflects the products high supply and demand status and the ability of the better-off sector to pay the asking price.

Look at Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. Plans are afoot to pipe water from the River Shannon all the way across the country to the city as the reservoirs cannot cope with the increased demand. Vegetables are been imported while market gardeners are forced out of business. The sugar industry was closed down and now we pay through the nose for impoted sugar.

The World Trade Organisation and the European Union have a lot to answer for.

Our 7th eTwinning Year

It is Back 2 School time again and this is our 7th year taking part in eTwinning . Unfortunately we have the shadow of  a Whole School Evaluation (WSE) hanging over us.This may militate against teachers interested in taking part.

eTwinning is designed to enhance the learning process. The resultant projects are not intended to add to the already overloaded school curriculum.

The projects with which I have been involved served as a motivational force for both the teacher and students alike. The teachers decide on the project between themselves. The project can be as short as a week or as long as a year. The partnership can be between two schools or twenty. Hopefully my school will be involved in eTwinning this coming school year.