August « 2007

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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Teacher takes shuttle to work

Teachernaut - Barbara set up class today in the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

"One of the seven Endeavor astronauts, schoolteacher Barbara Morgan, will take part in several educational activities on the space station, said Stodieck. Morgan was the back-up to astronaut Christa McAuliffe, known as the "teacher in space," who died along with [...]

Photo Gallery is back!

The thumbnail display in the sidebar has been restored. Regular visitors to the site will have witnessed several hardcode attempts over that last two weeks. I think it is back to “normal”. The only reason I can think of that has made this site a target is my innicent question last January where [...]

School Website makeover

Sadly I received no emails or comments for the proposed site make over. There is stil time as I will be spending the next three weeks converting the school website http://www.sasns.ie into a blog and podcasting site. Hopefully there will be a lot of interaction between the two sites. At the moment the task is like having your [...]

Sea Stallion in harbour north of Cloghar Head – I think!

Welcome to Ireland.

The Sea Stallion of Glendalough is safely moored this morning north of Cloghar Head. They made land after sailing from the Isle of Man. The day before the crew had to battle through a severe storm from the island of Islay south (down) the North Channel and into the Irish Sea as they made there [...]

eTwinning 2007/8

A note for your diary!

Léargas will launch the eTwinning Weeks 2007 “Back to School Campaign’ on 17th September – 19th October 2007. There are lots of ideas and and readymade projects to be found at www.etwinning.net. Over 27,00 teachers have registered to date. [...]

WordPress 2.2.2 upgrade

The eagle-eyed among you will soon notice I am delaying the WordPress upgrade until I have worked out the he plugin and vanishing images problem. I will upgrade as soon as possible.

Elation and disappointment?

Don't hold your breath for the video of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. For some unknown reason the Spraoi organisers brought the performance schedule forward by an hour. To add insult to injury they also switched the venues around. We missed everything! We were in the wrong place at the wrong time on most [...]

Podcasting Course

I was reminded in an email this afternoon that I promised last May to list the necessary software and hardware components required to set up an indendent blog and/or podcastng site. Recent events have taken up a lot of my time so I will have to put it off until Late August or possibly mid-September. When it [...]

Podcasting gear on eBay

Thank you Liam for the email regarding the absense of images on the Podcast Setup page. It is symptomatic of the problem I am having with the site at the moment. I am gradually tracking down the "phantom" images and placing them in their respective directories on the server. I call them phantom images as some [...]

Spraoi dampener

The weather is miserable and it has put a real dampener on the Sproai festival. I had intended to go to the performance of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/main/home.aspx at nine o'clock but I am tired and soggy. I was going to video a tune and put it up on the site for a [...]