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 [ … ]
Glow Office 365: Email…shhh it’s already there.
Envious of all the LAs who are ahead of you in the national roll out of Office 365 email? Want to access your Glow/Office365 email account right now? Looks like [ … ]
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! [ … ]
Lies we tell in Computing Higher!
Our higher computing course has a lot of errors in it! Things that we tell learners are absolute truths but are, in fact, errors often built on incorrect knowledge, incorrectly [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Get the Glow new look – CSS/JS?
Some of the National Glow groups are changing to a new fixed width layout, new stylesheet view and a JavaScript menu. The new look can be seen on CPD Central [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Glow (1.5) and Glew: A quick comparison
I thought it would be useful to compare the interim Glow/Microsoft Office 365 solution with the work which has been going on with Glew recently. This comparison is based on [ … ]
GlowPlus: L.A. Duty of care and Filtering
Duty of Care: Is it an excuse?
The most frequent reason I get when I discuss “open access” to the Internet with those that control network access and strategy in local authorities is duty of care: “We have a duty of care to protect young people”. But what is this duty of care, what isthe legal precedence on which it is based and does this duty of care require that we provide our learners with poor connectivity and restricted access to the worlds largest source of learning material?