mattbeighton

Gah, first TB, then the ground and now here?! Stop stalking me!

If it's in XML and you are happy to change the format, then Fusion Charts provide a great set of free flash graphs that will do exactly what you want and are easy to integrate.

I like the idea, any idea how it could be done usefully? Do you think copy and paste them all to one large text box, maybe comma or semi-colon separated?

I've added links now for when the children inevitably close the windows and panic! I'm still unsure on whether I like the pop-ups or not, the main benefit of them (for me anyway) is that when I want them to move to a new website, I can just send it and it pops up at the front ready for them to use; the younger children in the school would struggle to find the home page and click a link without input. I also like the idea in the future of being able to remotely close windows when I want the children to move on; I've not figured out a good UX way of doing this though. I used to use bit.ly for this purpose but got fed up with having to get them to type several codes and on a couple of occasions the children mistyped the code with another valid code. The resulting website was, luckily, safe but I am under no illusions that there are some out there that could have been difficult to explain, even with a firewall in place! This is correct. Technically the code is generated against your IP address and won't generate a new one for 10 minutes, so you should be able to reopen your browser and click generate and it will just give you the same one that you can then keep adding to.

Which one are you?

Good points cheers guys. Those that it isn't working for, could you be more specific? What did you do, how far did you get?

Since there's no reply I'm going to try risking posting it! If it is considered spam, please delete it. Recently we have been doing a lot of topic/literacy lessons that need the children to find information from several websites. It's hard enough getting them to type one URL in at times, let alone 3 or 4; especially when the focus of the lesson isn't their typing skills. With that in mind, I went away and built http://www.sendurl.co.uk. As a teacher, if you click the create new session button it will generate you a code at the top. If you then send your class to http://www.sendurl.co.uk, they can enter the code into the text box, click the arrow button and they are locked in. You can then type/copy/paste any URL you want them to go to into the text box on your screen and within 30 seconds it will pop up on their laptop/netbook/computer with no need to type. You can keep adding as many URLs as you like and they will pop up one after the other. Hopefully some of you might find this useful, if you do could you let me know and more importantly let your friends know!

Hi, I have built a site that I find very useful when teaching ICT based lessons where typing speed is not a key focus to let the children practice; i.e a topic lessons where you want them to get to the sites without spending 20 minutes typing long URLs. I don't want to post it and risk spamming, but could somebody point me in the direction of someone I can ask for permission to post, and a suggested forum. Cheers