foolfillment: the blog

Draw a crude sketch and retrievr will search for a match out of all the images on flickr

[tags]flickr, web2.0, retrievr[/tags]

I’m listening to a skypecast (my first) that Ewan McIntosh took part in about web2.0 in the classroom. Over the next few weeks we have a series of lectures and presentations about final year projects.

I wonder, yet again, about how much scope there is for me to do one that would investigate different uses of the internet in the classroom, for instance blogging, but also podcasting or conference calls through skype. I know how much discussion helps my own learning (beit in aiding my understanding or engaging me more in the topic through encountering those who already are engaged) and I want to investigate the affect these new technologies have in the classroom.

With the new Scottish Schools Digital Network due to go live in 2007 - my graduation year - I feel it is really important that as a new teacher I am able to bring the skills and knowledge to whatever school I end up in, and my fourth year investigation could help me with this.

[tags]web 2.0, education, skypecasting, SSDN[/tags]

I got this email this morning so I’m going to have a shot at upgrading. I had been holding off until I’d had time to see a few other sites that had upgraded first, but here goes. If things look a bit pear shaped here then that’s why.

Hi,

We have detected that your WordPress blog scripts on foolfillment.co.uk
are being exploited in order to execute attacks from our server.

Could you please upgrade WordPress to the newest version as soon as
possible in order to close this hole.

Update: Well, that seemed to go akay, just finding my way around the new backend though, I have to say the new fancy page for writing and managing posts is horrible, the first thing I’ve turned off. Let me know if you spot and problems.

[tags]wordpress 2.0, server attacks, upgrading
[/tags]

In my continuing effort not to spend money where I don’t have to, I’ve got myself a Skype account so that I don’t have to pay for phone calls, I’ve even gone to the lengths of setting up an account for my Dad, that way the person I phone most often - my Mum - doesn’t have to go through the trauma that would inevitably result in her trying to sign up.

Then this evening I set out to buy a headset, ebay was the first and only port of call and maybe I should have done a bit more research but I think the gamble of a whole penny makes it a risk worth taking, should come in the next few days and then I’ll be all set. Those of you who need to add me to your contacts know what to search for so I’ll not put my username up here. Speak to you soon though.

[tags]Skype[/tags]

Five weeks at uni, then four weeks at school, three weeks on Easter vacation, four weeks back at uni, before two weeks of exams, three weeks of working, all of which leads up to the time we…

Fly out to Malasia and New Zealand for five weeks!!!

Back to Glasgow again and once again find myself able to blog. Any urges to write here disappear whenever I spend time at the parental home.

There have been little snippets but on the whole I’ve been absent since a month ago (how do whole months just slip by like that?) in which time I’ve had a very good Christmas and New Year. Thanks to everyone who bought me presents, I got most of the things I wanted thanks to Lordy’s Lists Project*. I worked quite a bit at The Rocks over the holiday including Hogmanay. The place was very busy that night but with nice people all wanting to have a good time and the job is good fun, with great staff to work alongside so all in all it was a very enjoyable way to spend the night. Highlights including counting out the old year outside the front door, overlooked by a piper on the balcony, everyone having been given some champagne to toast with.

Since then I’ve been to the staff party and not much else, before coming back through to Glasgow on Thursday, in time for the first caving pub night of the term. Tonight we’re going out to see Belle and Sebastian at the ABC before I have a week of hard working doing all the things I might have been able to do last term.

* Could go live for public use this year???

Inspired by d4d’s post the other day about the books he read last year I’ve compiled a little list of the ones I read in 2005. Not anything close to the 88 he notched up though.
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We decided that later on he’d be snowed under with GCSE work and sooner was better than later.

Source: BBC News