Well, the new Higher Computing Science is nearly with us and it’s probably a good time to start thinking about the software you’ll need in order to deliver this new [ … ]
Category: Inner Geek
This is where I put all the things that don’t fit anywhere else. This is were I mess around with technology.
Glowing pains and migration
The migration of the existing Glow content to Office 365 isn’t really going as planned. I’ve spent that last few days browsing around the first batch of LA sites to [ … ]
Glew: What other’s are saying
So much has been said about the development of Glew as a platform for learning that I thought it would be useful to bring the key posts together so that [ … ]
Glew Scalability and Security
Earlier today I read a great piece by Paris Gourtsoyannis of Holyrood magazine. The item was focused on what happens next with the ICT Excellence Group report and raises some [ … ]
Office 365 Web Apps with Amazon Kindle HD
I thought I would have a go with an Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Office 365 Wave 14. I already know that the email, calendar and contacts is rock solid [ … ]
Office 365 / Wave 14: Mobile support
In November 2012, I spent a weekend testing Office 365 Wave 15 Preview on mobile devices and some limited testing on Mac and Windows. The results of that testing are [ … ]
More Lies we tell in Computing Higher!
Lie #4 Unicode is a 16-bit code system used to represent characters. Er. No it isn’t. Now this one did come from an exam question in the dawn of time! [ … ]
GlewTiles UI – an OpenSource alternative
The aim of Glew was always to develop a system to bring together the best of the web and OpenSource and free software tools for learning. The core Glew portal [ … ]
Mobile Devices: The next lock-down after filtering
The initial discussion paper from the ICT Excellence Group makes a number of proposals about the use of mobile devices and bring your own technology (BYOT). These are exciting ideas [ … ]
Office 365 / Wave 15: Mobile support
Introduction Office 365 for Education consists of Microsoft Office 2013 web apps for Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and OneNote and the SharePoint 2013 environment for managing documents, teams, groups, sites and [ … ]