Crowmanuk

I've got assignments working ok for me but the one teacher i've tried it with keeps getting an error when he tries to post or save it as a draft.

We use google forms which automatically emails the site manager with the request, theres a few fields that have to be filled in and he's really happy with it as he's got everything recorded now.

I need to create a school calendar that can be shared on a website so staff can see what is going on, is secure so only staff can view it, can be updated from ios, android and outlook devices by senior leadership. At the moment I’ve got an exchange email that senior leadership have access to and can update that calendar, because its exchange based they can just add that account to their mobile devices and have full access to the calendar but sharing it with other staff is a pain as mobile devices don’t show shared calendars and I don’t want to give them full access to it. I cant figure out how to show a “live” exchange calendar on a website/sharepoint either, I can copy all the events and put them into a sharepoint calendar but that needs doing regularly and its not the most elegant solution. I can copy the school calendar to the public calendars too but again, its not live and would need to be copied across everytime that something was update, also public calendars don’t show up on ios devices. I’ve taken a look at google calendars and that can be shared with other gmail users and embedded onto a website, I can make the calendar available to everyone but but I really don’t want all that information public even if I passworded the webpage it would be on as there is information about staff holidays and other stuff that wouldn’t be on a public school calendar. So I need a secure calendar system that works with mobile devices, is embeddable and secure. Any ideas? p.s. Damn ios to hell!

I'd definitely take a look at "explain everything", its one of the best apps i've ever used for creating content, I recently gave it to a PE teacher who's loving it, drag a powerpoint, pdf, pictures or video into it, annotate and talk over it while recording and export it to youtube or dropbox, and youve got a video of whatever you want that students can watch over and over, he's having a go at blended learning and for the class that he's trialling it with its really working well, i'm really proud of what he's doing with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JOsrEsyo0 Must agree though, if they dont know what apps they want then they dont really know what they want the ipads for and they might as well go with angry birds and all the tv stuff.

i've been asked to evaluate doddlelearn for our school as we've got a bit of cash left in our BSF pot, i've gone over the site and it looks pretty good, have any of you used it or got any opionions about it? https://www.doddlelearn.co.uk/ Cheers Fellas

We ran Xibo on a tv with a Revo3610 and it was pretty much rock solid, you can do all your schedules and special events without any problems but come September we get Planet estream under BSF too, cant wait.

That exact same thing was the reason I stopped using the bbc news feed, I think I resorted to using the sky news one which repeats all day long but at least it worked, I'm really looking forward to September now when we get full planet e-stream in and we can actually embed a tv feed as we will have a tv tuner built into it.

Well I walked my legs off yesterday and still didnt get round everything I wanted to see, I reckon you could do with at least 2 days to get round everything, even with our cherry picked shopping list of things we wanted to look at we still walked round for 6 hours and didnt get round it all. Anybody got any spare feet?

We just had a broken ipad screen replaced by these guys Wirral Computer Services very quick service, looks like new now and it was the cheapest i've found, just £50 for the glass. spooky that is, within 10 minutes of writing this some silly sods dropped one and smashed the screen, aghghghgh

we've got a cachepilot and i'm fairly sure theres no way to rest it the way you want to, best bet is to get in touch with the LA support who can dial in to retrieve/reset it

Yes, just go here Twitter / Profil-Widget, fill in the details of the twitter account you want to monitor, and put the code into an embedded part in xibo

I've given up on embedded feeds and put a USB tv card in the machine with a little aerial and just overlay the tv on the xibo client, it works really well and I only had to modify the layout a little bit to make room for it.

Sounds like a recipe for brain death, I can't imagine not being busy doing something. We should be having a meeting soon outlining what we will be doing so I'm trying to stay positive even though half the stuff we'd been planning will get scrapped so I'm leaning more towards "what's the point" now.

Whats part of your daily task list then mate?

I think even if they did get past the technical side of things they'd never have time to do it all, I know we rib teachers a bit on here but their job is to teach which is the reason we do all the techy stuff, we're good at it.