Once in the Special needs area at BETT, a poster of Tintin caught my eye. This was on the DITT (Dyslexia International Tools and Technologies) stand which featured a CD starring Tintin and Snowy on the road to success in The Mystery of the Lost Letters which is aimed at dyslexics aged 8-13. Although I [...]

The BETT Show is the world’s leading educational information and communications technologies (ICT) event, attracting around 600 educational suppliers. The show is held at London Olympia every January and it brings together the global teaching and learning community.
Some of the new programs on view at this year’s show were two new products from www.cricksoft.com – [...]

If a blog is to engage children - either as authors or as audience - it has to look attractive. And the authors need to have a real sense of ownership. So wouldn’t it be good if they could use their own image in the blog’s header? Some themes let you do that yourself - [...]

Bloggers on Exc-el/eduBuzz now have the option of using Snap Preview.
You’ve maybe seen Snap Preview in action before, for example on Ollie Bray’s blog. If not, hover your mouse over this link. Get the idea? If you want this on your blog, just go to the new Extras tab (it’s under Presentation) and switch it [...]

Give it a one-word Flickr tag (Presentation / Theme Option) and this theme will find a handful of matching images, and use them to make up a multi-photo header image. You can see it currently on the Theme Test blog. There’s no prize for guessing the Flickr tag it’s using!

If you’re going to join the conversation, you need to hear what’s being said. That’s why eduBuzz is going to make it easy to tune in. This blog will be part of that.
Over on the right sidebar you’ll see a first attempt at pulling together an up-to-date picture of the latest blog posts on Exc-el. [...]

I’ve just installed Andrew Sutherland’s version 2.0.1 of the plugin - check it out! Lynne Lewis at Pencaitland Primary had just been in touch about the lack of widget functionality in the earlier version - this fixes that. Have a look at how Lynne’s using it in the right sidebar of the Pencaitland Primary blog [...]

The Flickr Widget Plugin has been removed. Unfortunately it breaks a blog if it’s activated before Sidebar Widgets are activated. The blog’s address just displays a blank screen, and it’s not possible for the blog’s owner, or a WordPress administrator, to fix it - it’s a system admin job.
Because that’s the last thing we need [...]