Marking and reports seem never ending at the moment. This slows down the pace of other jobs getting done but I did get the del.icio.us account opened. I did this at home and installed the two buttons and then realised that nearly all of the sites useful for my pupils were ‘favourited’ at work. I’m not ‘allowed’ to, or can’t have the del.icio.us buttons on the PC at work so I had to export my favourites to my home PC. Now I will have to get on with tagging them. I linked del.icio.us no problem to my typepad webpage but found it difficult to understand how to get it correctly onto this blog. Any advice would be greatly received. Also, can you install the two buttons (del.icio.us & tag) onto any PC? Surely you can but I haven’t quite worked that one out – mind you, I haven’t spent much time on it!
A wee story about the frustrations of school network machines. Over two months ago I bought a BBC dvd but it wouldn’t play on the PC dvd. It had to have the software on the dvd installed, but only the poor overworked ICT technician has the permission to do this(anyone else have this problem?). He finally came to get the dvd working, which it now does BUT all the other sites that I use quite frequently, won’t run because of Adobe Flash issues. (I’m not allowed to load that up either). God knows how long I’ll now have to wait to get the PC back to the way it was and I’ll play the offending BBC dvd on the TV! So frustrating, (and, by the way, this is no criticism of ICT techs as they appear to be overworked and understaffed), and it helps explain the slow progress I seem to be having.
On a positive note, the P7 parents who came round the school last night were very impressed by the amount of ICT used in the department. They were particularly taken by the idea of pupils e-mail homework to me. So, onward and upward!
