Glow Boy - Retired

GlowBoy gets Flash

GlowBoy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:36:01 +0000

Just learning a flashy style

Based on an original idea by Jo King. Thanks Jo

I FEEL A BLOG POST COMING ON!

GlowBoy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:16:35 +0000

Oh dear! What’s happened now!

I made a comment (verbal as opposed to blog), at coffee this morning, which invoked the response, “Well you just don’t shout loud enough!. There must be a proverb about that!”, they said. Which of course immediately brought to mind something about vessels.

What a state my class room would have been if I had cultivated an attitude ,”You’ll only get a response if you shout loudly!”. Imagine the mayhem! I think I’ve had to cover a few of those in the past.

Working hard at the back of the room, making little or no noise, gets the job done but receives little praise or recognition. Sadly it is true that the students you remember most easily are those that caused the greatest stushie.

But then you have to ask the question, “Why am I doing this, that or the other?”. In reply to this, I said to my self, “Because I believe it’s an excellent thing to do and I passionately want to succeed and do it to the best of my ability!”.

But no-one heard me say that!

Blogging from within Glow

GlowBoy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:02:57 +0000

Just experimenting with various things I can do from within Glow.

Editing this from within the PageViewer web part is a bit difficult since some of WP’s pallets are getting in the way on the right hand side of where I’m writing but hey just more typos, not to worry.

Now lets see what else we can do!

Oh! BTW I’m also brushing up on my XML sad eh?

TeachMeet08 North

GlowBoy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:35:38 +0000

Well eventually I made it to a teachmeet, having missed out on last September’s one at SFL 2007 and Ewan’s Friday night session down at BETT 2008. However it was in large part due to the herculean effort of David acting as chauffeur for 5 of the East Lothian gang. Two and a half hours through Edinburgh’s rush hour and pea soup fog saw us get to the venue at Dewar’s Ice Rink in Perth just in time.

You are probably too young to have encountered “Merlin’s Castle”, an adventure game originally I think on the BBC computer and later transferred to the Mac. You had to wander around the landscape and pick up aids and treasures etc. I’m not sure what the ultimate goal was, I never quite made it to the end. However if you made a wrong move, the screen went white and you were told that “you are lost in a swirling mist” and that you had to start again.

The journey up and back down from Perth reminded me of that.

It was good, as always, to meet people who, to that point, you had only heard of or read about. All the talks were excellent and well received by the twenty five or so talkers and lurkers. Maybe if I feel confident enough that I have something that someone else would wnat to hear, I might pluck up the courage to do 7 or better 2 mins worth.

Thanks Mr W