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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Tu, Oct 16, 2007Children do it
There's a front page post on Craig-y-Don's site, from a pupil there.
I saw it brewing since yesterday noon. The child created a message, which was not what he really wanted to do, since you can't upgrade these to news items. (I should fix this.) Then, today about 2pm, he created a news item, copy pasted into the right 'Create new news item' page.
Then, as he's not permissioned to post to the front page (yet), the Head authorised it to the front page. I hope he gets some comments on it. Others at the school did such last year.
I later came along and added a link. And saw some typos. Here's the screen of what I saw.
I use Firefox. With a spell checking add on. And yes, there is a Welsh dictionary too. (And Polski :-)
I would humbly suggest that all schools eschew MSIE 5, 6 and 7 and get with a good browser. Editing and creating posts, we all need to use the best there is to look the best there is. IMHO.
[Later:] I spy four other pupils at another school posting to their front page, too! A football report witten by pairs in Waterloo Primary. They've added colour.
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Firefox spell checker
Then, as he's not permissioned to post to the front page (yet), the Head authorised it to the front page. I hope he gets some comments on it. Others at the school did such last year.
I later came along and added a link. And saw some typos. Here's the screen of what I saw.
I use Firefox. With a spell checking add on. And yes, there is a Welsh dictionary too. (And Polski :-)
I would humbly suggest that all schools eschew MSIE 5, 6 and 7 and get with a good browser. Editing and creating posts, we all need to use the best there is to look the best there is. IMHO.
[Later:] I spy four other pupils at another school posting to their front page, too! A football report witten by pairs in Waterloo Primary. They've added colour.
An extra feature
I've been thinking about these emailed documents.
One thing I don't like about such is that they're not indexed by Google. Which is important.
But Google does index Word docs and pdfs. And, Excel sheets, Powerpoints, too, I've seen in their index.
If you look underneath the Flash version, you'll see a link to the actual, original document. I've greyed it to match the rest of the caption—you'll need to mouse over the caption to see the link. Remember, the link is not really for your readers, it's for Google. You want your readers to be able to read the caption, and not be distracted. Of course, if you were to add [nc] for no caption to the subject line or the file's name, you won't get the link.
Now, Google can index it too.
A byproduct is, if you lose your original, here it is.
BTW: my daughter made this. I was surprised. She was quiet upstairs in my office one afternoon. I figured she was looking at puppy pictures though Google... But, no! She'd created and saved two such documents. Chip off the old geek.
Obviously, she's been doing this at school. So, I guess other 9 year olds in other schools will be doing the same.
Wouldn't it be nice (and easy) to upload some of your best?
Word document: Girls only
But Google does index Word docs and pdfs. And, Excel sheets, Powerpoints, too, I've seen in their index.
If you look underneath the Flash version, you'll see a link to the actual, original document. I've greyed it to match the rest of the caption—you'll need to mouse over the caption to see the link. Remember, the link is not really for your readers, it's for Google. You want your readers to be able to read the caption, and not be distracted. Of course, if you were to add [nc] for no caption to the subject line or the file's name, you won't get the link.
Now, Google can index it too.
A byproduct is, if you lose your original, here it is.
BTW: my daughter made this. I was surprised. She was quiet upstairs in my office one afternoon. I figured she was looking at puppy pictures though Google... But, no! She'd created and saved two such documents. Chip off the old geek.
Obviously, she's been doing this at school. So, I guess other 9 year olds in other schools will be doing the same.
Wouldn't it be nice (and easy) to upload some of your best?
Only in America?
I Can Get Your Kid into an Ivy: "Since she started seven years ago, Hernandez, who is 40, says she has worked with some 150 students, 95% of whom, she claims, were accepted at their first choice of college. She hints that among them have been the progeny of chief executives, financiers, billionaires.
Hiring help is not the privilege of only the wealthy, of course. According to the Independent Educational Consultants Assn., 22% of first-year students at private colleges--perhaps as many as 58,000 kids--had worked with some kind of consultant.
Families pay Hernandez as much as they do because she promises not just substitute parenting but parenting in the extreme. She selects classes for students, reviews their homework, and prods them to make an impression on teachers. She checks on the students' grades, scores, rankings. She tells parents when to hire tutors and then makes sure the kids do the extra work. She vets their vacation schedules. She plans their summers. And through it all, she is always available to contend with the college angst that can consume whole families. Parents value her confidence; kids, mostly, appreciate her enthusiasm."
Hiring help is not the privilege of only the wealthy, of course. According to the Independent Educational Consultants Assn., 22% of first-year students at private colleges--perhaps as many as 58,000 kids--had worked with some kind of consultant.
Families pay Hernandez as much as they do because she promises not just substitute parenting but parenting in the extreme. She selects classes for students, reviews their homework, and prods them to make an impression on teachers. She checks on the students' grades, scores, rankings. She tells parents when to hire tutors and then makes sure the kids do the extra work. She vets their vacation schedules. She plans their summers. And through it all, she is always available to contend with the college angst that can consume whole families. Parents value her confidence; kids, mostly, appreciate her enthusiasm."
