A New Web Based Project
I’ve been thinking recently about two things concerned with OFTSED (the UK’s office for educational standards) that concern both teachers and parents. Firstly, as a parent, you often consider how…
Changing Site Header in WordPress Theme 2012 aka Adding Custom CSS
On one of my self-hosted WordPress sites, it kept niggling at me that the size of the header on the main page was so small relative to the rest of…
Using Chrome to Open Multiple Web Pages at Startup
I recently installed a piece of software to download YouTube videos and for my sins, despite carefully unticking all the ad-ware options, still managed to have some changes made to…
Every Developer Has a Story
I’ve returned to watching a lot of the videos on Channel 9 and came across an excellent blog series about people using Microsoft Technologies to create apps, called Every Developer…
Mind Map of C# and .NET
I’ve been recently playing around with XMIND, reputedly the most popular mind mapping software and so far, I really like it. To test it out and help me learn more…
Splitting a String in C#
When I was at university programming in C, I spent a lot of time writing command line (shell based) programs. In doing so, one of the things you might need…
Creating Children’s Music Videos
This article is all about how to create a music video featuring children as the main stars (most likely, those in your class). What do I mean by that? Basically,…
Reducing Paragraph Gaps in WordPress Articles
For a while now, I have had these huge gaps between my paragraphs on the blog and quite honestly, it has driven me mad! I’ve just spent 10 minutes searching…
Running Heinemann Solutionbanks in Internet Explorer
A looong time ago, I was studying A Level maths and to help me, I bought a range of Solutionbanks written by Heinemann which came on CDROM. Dusting off my…
Missile Command – Adding Sound
Having played my version without sound and now the latest one, it is easy to conclude that sound maketh-the-game! It was almost as if my previous version had taken a…
Missile Command – Adding Some Scores and Lives
This is part 6 of a multipart series on creating a version of Missile Command using the educational tool, Scratch. For this entry, I am going to be adding a…
Missile Command – Let the Missiles Rain Down
This is part 5 of a multipart series on creating a version of Missile Command using the educational tool, Scratch. To recap so far, we’ve created the portions of the game…
Active Inspire – Adding Learning Objectives to Flipcharts
Setting up a flipchart for the school day can sometimes be laborious. This quick video shows you how to add your learning objective and success criteria, using Active Inspire, quickly…
Active Inspire – Changing from Advanced to Primary Friendly View
Sometimes Active Inspire can be set up so that it is in the advanced view which can be a little bit daunting for both children and teachers. This video shows…
Missile Command – Adding in Some Bombs using Scratch
This is part 4 of a multipart series on creating a version of Missile Command using the educational tool, Scratch. It has been an awfully long time since I updated…