PHPMotion Redux

Back in April 2008 I did a post on a YouTube clone called PHPMotion which was then in version 1.  The software is now in version 3 and we have just installed it on our school server.  The latest version is still a bit of a pain to install, it runs on PHP and MYSQL [...]

What’s in my Dock?

While reading The Angry Technician Blog, I came across a post regarding what are your most launched applications in Windows. Now my Windows 7 virtual machine is undoubtedly a thing that I will blog about later as at this stage the apps I use are very much web based but I thought I would share [...]

Teachers Report Assistant

It’s report time again and as always I have left it to the last minute. Aah, where would I be without that last minute?  Writing reports one of the least favorite jobs I do but thanks to Teachers Report Assistant from Rays learning it’s a breeze.
It is windows only and as a Mac user I [...]

iPhone apps my Daughter loves

Recently Rylee has taken to playing a memory game on abcya.com, she does however find the multiple button mouse difficult so we were thinking about how cool a touch screen would be. I then remembered a review of some of the toddler games for the iPhone OS and to be fair I was amazed [...]

Looking at Edubuntu

This week I attended a session on open source solutions for schools. It was hosted here in Tauranga by Technology Wise who have largely made their name supporting local businesses with open source solutions. The keynote was presented by Don Christie, president of the NZ open source society.
The presentation really got me thinking about Linux [...]

Moodle …the hidden cost of Ownership

The Hidden cost of Moodle use is more than other LMS providers in the New Zealand market ……….YEAH RIGHT!!
Recently the Ministry MLE roadshow visited Tauranga and I had some calls from local teachers who attended asking about the hidden cost of running Moodle in a school as it was indicated that running Moodle could be [...]

Stu’s Double Jeopardy, Great fun for basic facts.

As much as it pains me to have to boot into my windows virtual machine (feel the mac snob coming out in me there) Stu’s Double Jeopardy makes me do just that.

While I have made up Jeopardy games before in Powerpoint and lately in Smart’s Notebook this is so easy and looks so good. There [...]

Timelines get a spruce-up with beedocs timeline 3d

Some people collect stamps, it would appear that I collect applications (much to @natsyann’s disgust and our visa cards limit) but I just purchased Beedocs Timeline
Why Timelines?
Bee Docs Timeline is software for Mac OS X that makes it easy for you to present historical events in a way that reveals connections and clarifies relationships.
Make timeline [...]

CocoaBooklet

I am off to Australia next week with my wife and daughter.  My wife is attending an ultrasound conference on the Gold Coast and I am taking unpaid leave so that she does not have to be away from our daughter fo 10 days.  Unfortunately this means that I have to prepare lessons for my [...]

Shape Collage

Another gem from Lifehacker.com, Shape Collage is a free download and works on Mac and Windows.  On the Mac I just dragged a bunch of photos from iPhoto into Shape collage and a few clicks later I had a collage.  Does what it says on the tin.

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