Nick, who architected Paperless School, is experimenting with screencasting I bought a copy of Macromedia Captivate the other day. It’s a great tool for creating demos, or tutorials on how to use a program/web interface, but also claims to integrate with SCORM-compliant LMS somehow… I haven’t got that far yet. Here’s my first amateurish production:…

Received from a Paperless School user who I won’t name to spare the blushes of his technical department… We are about to run into problem with technicians again! They turned off flash player because some pupils were playing games in other classes, promptly losing the online encyclopedia*, how nice to be consulted! …and the reply…

Chalkface publishes some 23 resources on bullying, or with bullying-related content. Over the years, we’ve covered every aspect of bullying as it affects young people….or so I thought. Stop Text Bullying is a new site aimed at raising awareness of bullying via new technologies. It is structured around a list of seven ways of using…

When any online service goes wrong, there are four possible loci for the problem The program The server Proxy server en route The browser Of these, 1 and 2 are under our control (‘us’ being the people who run the service). Problems can generally be found and fixed quickly. 4 is generally something that we…

Today we celebrate an anniversary. It is precisely one month since telecoms company Easynet (via their UK Online brand) cut off my broadband connection. In the name of ‘upgrade’, I’d foolishly let myself be seduced by the promise of an 8meg connection for the same price as the half-meg connection I’d had from BT. Every…