Renfrewshire ICT Blog

Developing learning with ICT in Renfrewshire

Entries from December 2006

So Much Spam

December 30th, 2006 · No Comments

I am really going off EduBlogs. I logged in today to see if anything was happening.  There were 72 comments awaiting moderation.  71 of those were spam!  I don’t get that on my blogger account.  I have been looking at other providers which we can use within Renfrewshire.  This certainly has made me very aware [...]

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Happy Christmas

December 20th, 2006 · No Comments

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originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.

This is a very short post just to wish everyone a very happy and blessed Christmas. There won’t be much activity on this site until the 8th of January (except of course for all the spam I keep having to get rid of).
All the best

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Tags: IT

Mac OS and Glow

December 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments

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Apple, originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.

As part of the phase 1 pilot of Glow some of our schools took the opportunity to see what happened when they tried to access Glow using Macintosh computers running OS9. [...]

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Tags: IT

Glow Feedback Session

December 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Yesterday saw the end of the phase 1 pilot period of Glow. Folk from the four schools involved in Renfrewshire met together to talk through what had gone well and what had not gone well. Paul and Vicki then joined us and we were able toprovide some verbal feedback to them. I still have to [...]

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Tags: Barsail · GLOW · Johnstone · Park Mains · Renfrewshire · St Fillans · education · glowscotland · password

Glow Passwords

December 2nd, 2006 · 4 Comments

I have already owned up to a few people that I managed to lock myself out of the Glow portal because I couldn’t even manage to enter my password correctly.  I blame the fact that I can’t tell the difference between a 1 and a I and that I didn’t get the special characters such [...]

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Tags: GLOW · ICT · IT · Renfrewshire · glowscotland · gordonmckinlay

Glow Blogs

December 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Spurred on by Andrews Brown, He is right.  There hasn’t been much around the blogosphere.  The most I have seen has been by Tess Watson which has been really encouraging and useful.
I am going to try to do a few posts over the next week or so on my reflections on the phase 1 pilot [...]

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Tags: GLOW · blog · blogging · glowscotland