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Skye Moroney
ICT infrastructure,
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Change management consulting and implementation specialist
Louise Moroney
Strategic planning,
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SVG Gradient – x1 y1 x2 y2 visualised
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Book Creator to iBooks Author
Creating content is not always an easy task. Last semester I had the opportunity to work with some teachers on creating a simple iBook for a Pre-Primary class. The teachers had made plenty of books using Book Creator with the students so it was an easy jump to understand how they could make an interactive book for…
5 Tools to take your iBooks to the next level
One of my favourite tasks last year was to help teachers create iBooks. I use iBooks Author and associated third party applications frequently, but sometimes it isn’t always what is needed for the task at hand. I often remind teachers that there are plenty of ways to create content! and sometimes we only need quick and simple…
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Free Customised Recording Booths for Classrooms
Getting creative with teaching and learning spaces is a challenge, especially when you need to record something. Being able to record your voice quickly and easily is one of the best upgrades that classroom technology has had in the last few years. With an emphasis in schools on literacy, teachers are often looking for ways…
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Where did that come from?
We ask our students to reference information from print text, online text, magazines, videos and so on, from such an early age. But when was the last time you asked your students to reference an image? Should they? The simple answer: Yes! Usage Rights There are plenty of tools available for referencing images and…
Pokemon Go @ School
Get behind it or on top of it, you can not ignore it.
Website Image Size is important
It’s like the old spy technology cliché Smaller is Better. The smaller the file size the faster the load time. Thats pretty much the crux of it, and for schools you’re going to find that your demographics’ internet access speeds vary wildly. So small file sizes for images is pretty important. At this point I could…
Get Connected and Stay Connected
George Siemens, one of my favourite writers and speakers, tweeted a fantastic article the other day from Scientific American, on “How Networks Are Revolutionizing Scientific (and Maybe Human) Thought”. It discusses the nature of networks and how this adds meaning to existence. Of particular interest to me was the spread of ideas via social networks…
TeachMeet – Digital Citizenship Presentation
Last week I presented at a TeachMeet #TMWA_DL in Perth, I’m always anxious when presenting to teachers. I’m not scared of teachers, it’s more like awe; I respect what they do and see the hours they put in, how much of themselves they give and this makes me want to do a very good job when I…
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Concern – Announcing the launch of our long awaited Digital Citizenship tool
For a number of years Eyks has been taking registrations of interest for Concern, it’s taken a long time to sort out all the legal and privacy requirements and even though we hoped to announce this sooner: Eyks is launching Concern.net.au Today is Australia’s 2016 National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence an auspicious day to to announce we are…
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Open PDF in new tabs – WordPress
To force WordPress to open all PDFs in a new tab, add the following to your theme-functions.php. function pdf_target_blank(){ ?> <script type=”text/javascript”> jQuery(document).ready( function(){ jQuery(‘a[href$=”.pdf”]’).attr(‘target’, ‘_blank’); } ); </script> <?php } add_action( ‘wp_print_footer_scripts’, ‘pdf_target_blank’ ); This code can be added as just the Script into the header.php of your site, though in certain interfaces it…
Mac CSV won’t upload?
Depending on the device that downloads or the system that generates a CSV (or other) text file, the file can be given 1 of 3 end of line styles. Mac = Carriage Return (CR) Unix = Line Feed (LF) Windows = Carriage Return + Line Feed (CRLF) When uploading a file most servers will run the CSV through…
Webclip Icons
So I posted a Drop in Jump page a while back and it included a little function I made in Automater called “Web Clip Icons”. It creates the correct sized and named files for (what was then and I haven’t looked at now) having icons on touch enabled apple devices show your own styled image. It also…
Make Passwords easier
There are hundreds of password related articles out there and instead of adding to the cacophony I’m going to give you a simplified version. Make it long – Password Length is more important than Password Complexity Keep it safe and single – It’s easier to steal a password than crack one Make it long Size matters –…
Westpac PayWay – Error HP ACQUIRER INIT REQD
Sometimes you search and search and then discover that the information just isn’t out there, so the best thing to do is to share once you know. I’m helping a community Summer Market setup a PayWay for collecting funds electronically – followed all the steps and it still didn’t work. Kept getting the following error:…
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WebDAV – dock shortcut
I wanted to build on the Mac Staff Home- dock shortcut by utilising WebDAV. This version is better because it allows you to use a single dock icon to connect to all your shares at once (as per your WebDAV setup). It also means the shares are available off campus. You’ll need to change the webdav.eyks.com.au with your own WebDAV link.…
Creating Mac Printing Packages – lpadmin
This is for when you have a print queue and unmanaged macs that you need to create a bundle printer install for. I’ll add the rest of this post later – basically use casper composer or iceberg and add the printer profiles, drivers and icons. then you’ll need to add a post install script… use…
Mac Staff Home – dock shortcut
UPDATE – Cam commented on this post last year and I adjusted the code but never posted the update. I’ve posted an update for dock shortcuts using WebDAV but some people might still need to use these ones so I am updating the code to make it a bit better. Now it falls over to enter a…
Keynote Trick – Make complex images easy
I have so many things to write and I thought I should start off with one of my favourite tricks on Mac. This works with any version of Keynote and I’ve even tested it with the new released version 6. You need to have Messages too (previously known as iChat) but you don’t need to…
Accessing iBooks from online
Just a proof of concept that uploading an iBook for parents at schools can happen as easily as a Parent iBook proof of concept download link. How to get it working in WP So you’re going to need to add a MIME type to your WordPress if you want to download iBooks from it =) Go find…
iWork Pages hanging
So another “this happened to me today”, I was working on a Pages document (Apple Mac iWork) and when I tried to share it as an ePub I had a problem because it didn’t like the movie file format I had imported. During the export, it shows the dialog almost finished, right near the end…
Retrieve deleted Evernotes
Update: The layout of the Evernote app has changed and the steps in this article no longer work. Guess why I’m writing this! probably the same reason you’re reading it. There was a conflict issue in the meeting minutes from a VI meeting, and somehow I ended up deleting them =( So after heading over to…
Drop in Jump page
While we are building the how-to on creating website layout for education we recognise that some of you out there need a solution for now. So with that in mind we have knocked up a quick Jump page that can be used to navigate between your disparate systems. Fair warning: this solution is for those…
iTunes U – Course image title bar colour
How obscure can those little finishing touches be? Currently we’re doing a set of Course Images for an iTunes U course so we can get a College wide branding. We wanted to now how to get the title of the course label across the bottom to be the colour we wanted. We could tell that…
eBoard Solutions
update (8 March 2012): The new Apple TV released this morning provides 1080p HD – it also runs on iOS5.1. The current process will not work with the new Apple TV or iOS5.1. If you update your Apple TV to iOS5.1 you currently will not be able to use the device as an eBoard. FireCore will undoubtedly release a…
eBoard Messaging system using TV2s
TV2s as a cost effective implementation of a college message board system After many a false turn and problem discovery (they lurk behind every corner) we finally have a generic styled multi user eBoard system. I’m finishing of the documentation still and will be training the relevant staff early next week on how it all…
