It’s all very well telling people that creating a blog is straightforward - but there’s no substitute for showing them. So to demystify the process, we’ve made a short “screencast” animation that takes you through the process step by step.
The whole thing can be easily viewed in under 2 minutes - maybe under one minute if you’re [...]

[ February 22, 2007; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Location: Prestonpans Education Centre

Time: Thursday 22nd February 2007, 4.00 to 5.30pm

Includes:

adding audio and video to Posts and Pages
using Plug-ins such as

Event Calendar
Democracy Poll
Sidebar Widgets

managing Sidebar contents
Using different presentation Themes

If you’ve an Exc-el / eduBuzz blog, you can now embed PowerPoint slideshows like this from SlideShare into Posts and Pages, thanks to a Plug-in from Koen.
Here’s how to do it. First, activate the SlideShare Plug-in from the Plug-in menu. Next,
For embedding a slideshare object in a blog post enter
[#slideshare id doc#]
into the text area. [...]

We are delighted to officially announce that we have managed to recruit 4 new ICT support officers to provide technical support to schools.  Three of the officers have just started and one more will join them by mid February.  The new officers who will join Stephen McNeill and Katie Walls are Chris Brown, Derek Wilson, Terry [...]

Around 200 teachers took part in a survey just before Christmas to provide feedback to the IT department and Education about the level of technical support currently provided to schools.  The Survey was conducted nationally by SOCITM (Society of IT Managers) and this time round involved 8 Local Authorities from Scotland and England.
A full report [...]

On 12th and 13th January, I spent a couple of days at the BETT conference in Olympia, London. The conference is the largest Education technology conference in the UK and is big!  I remember walking into the main hall several years ago - the first time I visited and thought - how do I manage [...]

These have been modified with scripts from Automattic’s WordPress Widget pack. You can now activate and use Sidebar Widgets on both themes. Activate them by going to the Plugins menu. Then go to Presentation / Sidebar Widgets to drag the ones you want from the widgets toolbox.

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!