Teach Tech

I recently received a request for information on how ICT is used in a Hard Materials Technology class so I decided to start a new blog.  I bought teachtech.co.nz back in January intending it to be a wiki for New Zealand Technology teachers but I realised that the Tech Teacher community was probably not ready [...]

Will it Stick?

One of the things we all like to do here at TEK is throw stuff at the wall and see if it sticks and I have to say that most times in education you have to run up to the wall and push it on extra hard to make it stay.  This can get [...]

Wordpress 2.7

Even though I promised I wouldn’t do a lot of computer work this week, I find myself not wanting to watch TV and already going to quickly through my Christmas present book ‘Lucky Legs‘ ( which has been a great read so far) So I sat down and approved a comment from MRZ aka Rob Zdrojewski [...]

Mobilising TEK

Since I went crazy and brought an iPhone last week I though it was time to Mobilise TEK for Opera Mini, Windows mobile and safari mobile, This was a crazy easy task which consisted of downloading mobilepress. Unzipping then uploading the folder to the plugins folder and ticking a couple of boxes and bingo mobile [...]

Joiku in action

I am sitting in my office here at mt maunganui college and although I have good wifi I also get a good 3g signal.
I have started joiku on my n95 and my iPod touch found the wifi network instantly.
Safari on the touch works very quickly and I can watch my data usage in real time. [...]

Ipod touch

As I sit here waiting for an appointment I decide it is a good time to try writing a post on my new iPod touch. I have had it for two days now and it is an amazing device. I won’t go into the reasons why I chose it over the iPhone but I [...]

Using Blogdesk on Windows

 

It’s not until I need to find something for a particular teacher that I realise some of the great stuff out there. Today I was trying to show a teacher how to blog from their desktop in a familiar surrounding and I though Windows live writer would be the answer but found that it required [...]

inTouch – The Mobile Administrator

The purpose of this post is two fold – firstly it shows the new “press this” feature in wordpress 2.6 which brings up a post window whenever you click the link and wish to post about something you have found and secondly it’s another example of handheld use in schools. Have a look.
inTouch – The [...]

embedding an iframe

Recently Hilary asked me how to add an external site to her blog. Specifically a SWF game. Rather than just getting the game and not being able to attribute to the owner I showed her how to use an iframe to get the data in just use this code. <iframe src=’http://tek.net.nz’ frameborder=’0′ width=’410′ height=’342′></iframe>

Google Custom Search

It’s been a busy couple of weeks, with upgrades of servers and laptops going out left-right etc. So I guess it’s now time to do some writing. I came across Jeff Utecht’s Blog today and found a number of new plugins to try with wordpress. The end result will then be added to the KKC community which [...]

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