The Educated Kiwi
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WordPress 2.7
Dec 27th
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 whose blog is a must visit for those wanting to get started on school tv and is a great resource for Adobe’s Visual Communicator.
But I digress, In doing so I found that the blog needed updating which thanks to the Automatic Update plugin is simply a matter of clicking on a few buttons so I did it and woah WordPress looks completely different on the backend as you can see from this picture. One of the features that got me started straight away and did this post on was the quickpost area where you can blog right on the dashboard, no more clicks.
Mobilising TEK
Nov 23rd
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 TEK. It has been amazing how much I have used mobile Safari and now see what Mark was talking about with the iPod touch. It is great to have a mobile device that is easily useable rather than the clunky interface with my Nokia N73, which was actually a more expensive phone.
Google Custom Search
May 25th
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 is now hosted within our school.
My favorite of these has to be the custom google search box that now has an Ajax version. By typing in this box you can search through any of the sites that Mark and I contribute to.
This week is a big one for Tek also as it will see Mark leaving the comfort of KKC to boldly go to MMC (that’s Mount Maunganui College for the uninitiated) I would like to wish him well at his new school and I guess that through Tek etc we will be proving that professional learning between schools can work.
I will however miss the rants about what we are trying to do with technology on the way home in the car pool but then arguing and discussing through iChat and Skype is a new challenge.
So here’s one on me Mark
WordPress 2.5
Mar 30th
Tek is now running on wordpress 2.5. I love a 10.00pm install that goes a little haywire. But then a quick reinstall and Mark will never be the wiser.
On looking at it the gallery and upload options seem improved and I think the navigation will make things easier for beginners as it is really only giving you the most important info.
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