Sep 16 2008
Educational Technology overload…
Tech Overload
Is anyone else suffering the same technology overload?
Well it has been a whirl-wind few weeks back at the helm, trying to negotiate the choppy waters of being a Technology teacher. Here are a few recent events to get the heart racing and make me sometimes wonder if it would be much better to be a technophobe:-
- Returned from holiday to find my server compromised and hundreds of Javascript injected to many different files within my site. Thanks to RealWebHost who were very helpful on the whole – things seem fine now. One word of advice keep all your web based applications e.g. WordPress, Moodle etc updated!
- Leopard has been introduced at school – and seems to be causing unknown problems on the network – leading to MS applications taking ages to load – leading to frustration all round.
- The wonders of a new filter system have been introduced to the school system – by the name of BLOXX. And as ever makes me wonder if this is really the best way to educate our students be blocking almost everything? This article over at eschoolnews regarding overzealous filters rings very true.
- Spending my time re-learning Pro-Desktop – after finding Cobalt a nightmare to use for students for Design and Technology projects – and can actually say how pleasantly surprised I am that students are picking it up pretty quickly.
On top of all this are many little jobs like finding a way to connect the wonders of Mindmeister, with Word to allow the automatic creation of a Table of Contents – and in fact after a little bit of messing it sort of works – check out my simple tutorial here – MindMeister to Word.
Give me a couple more weeks, and hopefully we can start thinking about more than treading water and get back on with my Master Critical Study focusing on integrating the use of a VLE/ Ultranet into a 3 school system.
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