Kelso High School Computing Department

testing RSS feed

ianking — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:54:00 +0000

Just testing that the RSS feed is still working. Hopefully you will see this in your aggregator shortly.

Holidays loom

ianking — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:27:12 +0000

Summer is approaching again. Thursday will feature our Summer Solstace Scavenge Scramble m- clebrating the retiral/ departure of 5 long term and several other colleagues. The weather looks promising and the hog roast beckons…..

Advanced Higher Computing Blogs

ianking — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:42:46 +0000

Just set up blogs for my 5 Advanced Higher Computing students. Hopefully we can use these to keep track of projects and progress generally.

KHS ICT Audit

ianking — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:24:51 +0000

This is an ongoing process, but as I’m discovering, there are many people making innovative use of ICT in the school, and it is difficult to pick just one or two out to present to staff on the Inset day on February 12th.

To mention just a few:

Online Questionnaire used to evaluate Maths courses
Email used in English and RME for pupils to submit essays and reports
Videos of pupil presentations used for peer assessment in History
Maths staff using an on-line Moodle forum to share ideas

And many more..

On the day Mr Gordon Watson will be describing his use of a Chemistry VLE

and Ms Hewins will be demonstrating the Geography Homework blog she has set up

NGFL Refresh

ianking — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:34:07 +0000

Well its happening this Summer Holiday. I’ve already spent two weeks getting to grips with the new software, tying up cables and checking that things are working as they should. All the new machines are in, including the 86 which we had to purchase ourselves. The Intranet has been transferred, and Easylink set up, though not accessible from outside yet. Some software packages have been installed and most of the peripherals are working.

Still to do: email, pupil intranet subwebs, SMTP on our web server, FTP service (this one seems to be a big problem) allocate software to stations.

I reckon on another full week’s work to get things sorted, this doesn’t include the work that the long suffering network administrators have been putting in all Summer.

SBC ICT Event day

ianking — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:18:01 +0000

The event seemed well received by those who attended. My laptop even survived a glass of water being emptied into the keyboard!

Here are the links to my presentation for those who want to follow it up:

The powerpoint presentation itself here

The links to blogs and other resources mentioned in the presentation here

Back to work tomorrow

ianking — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:11:42 +0000

Back to work tomorrow – I normally return to mountains of spam in my school email, this time I’ve been able to delete it from home using the remote login system. The spam has consisted of 70% pump and dump stock promotions, 20% pharmaceutical sales and 10% ever popular 419 scams. What a waste of bandwidth!

Holidays

ianking — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:40:55 +0000

Spent the October week at home this year – weather was excellent. Spent the time walking, eating our way through the garden and doing home improvements.

First post

ianking — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:56:56 +0000

Welcome to the KHS Computing department blog. Visit our home page here