Planning a few things out for next year
8:28 pm on the 25th of May, 2008I’ve kept myself very busy this weekend. During the day today and yesterday I was on an excellent first aid course led by Mark Tennant, as well as being a computing teacher at Dunbar Grammar he also manages to find time to be part of the Borders Mountain Rescue and be a BASP trainer. It was a really good course and Mark is incredibly knowledgeable so even though I’ve not really had a weekend I don’t begrudge that fact at all.
In the evenings I’ve been busy planning all sorts of things for next year, including a new website that I’m hoping to be able to use in class. I’d toyed with the idea of installing Moodle, but have just stuck with good old Wordpress, I may also go for an installation of WPMU in a sub-level sometime in the future. At the moment there is virtually nothing there and I’m just toying with how I want it structured, then I can get down to the really fun business of putting together a theme* to use with it. I love what Doug Belshaw has done with to integrate twitter into his site. 
In the future I’m aiming to have delicious and flickr seamlessly brought in, and who knows I’ll maybe even get some nice youtube integration.
* I really mean that - I just love diving into CSS and playing to make things look nice. I’m a geek I know 
May 25th, 2008 at 9:01 pm on the 25th of May, 2008
Hi Stuart,
Glad you like the Twitter integration on my site! I was actually inspired by the website of the guy who wrote the Wordpress plugin ‘SimpleTwitter’ (which powers the functionality on my site). See more at:
http://www.sleepydisco.co.uk/plugins/simpletwitter/
June 14th, 2008 at 10:01 am on the 14th of June, 2008
Stuart - is there a reason why you would want to use a moodle or wordpress site in class rather than GLOW ? just really interested in your take on this…
June 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm on the 14th of June, 2008
Hi Jaye,
Yes, there is a reason. At the moment I’ve not seen GLOW in action, other than screenshots and one lesson about a year ago with Tess Watson.
Glow isn’t going to be available for me to use this year either, so in the mean time I want to use something and that something is going to be Wordpress because I’m very comfortable with what it can do.
What I’m planning to do with Wordpress suits using Wordpress as well - I’ll use it to store course work for pupils to access but also I’m hoping to get it to be a window into the department for parents and other schools.
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