Category Archives: Web

Slow Moodle Editing

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

Moodle 2.3 is installed for our high schools. There is bug when editing large courses that causes the browser to slow down to a crawl. The current work-around is to use Google Chrome. K=>Internet=>Web Browsers=>Google Chrome Moodle plans to have … Continue reading →

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Kahn Academy

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

Khan Academy is in the news again.  Once intended for a young cousin, Sal Khan’s online tutorials now attract millions of people, laying the groundwork for a new approach to education.  View the CNET article and watch the CBS NEWS … Continue reading →

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Resize Images

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

Adam Fairbrother has created an easy-to-use tool for resizing your images.  This is useful when you want to email or upload images to the web.  If you do not resize your images before posting them on your website the page … Continue reading →

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Back to School.

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

It has been a very busy summer.   Below is a summary of what I’ve been up to: Improve performance of SKSS/Beattie – setup diskless proxy and adjust software settings to reduce disk-io.  Namely Firefox was a killer.  Freddie also upgraded … Continue reading →

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Upgrades Complete.

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

School upgrades are now complete. I’m now working on: Provincial Exam software testing. Testing Firefox 4 for September 2011. Video Editing on Linux for Schools. Summer power-down. Bus garage upgrades. SKSS load balancing image re-configuration. Summer account and data cleanup … Continue reading →

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Updates

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

For schools running the new Linux image I added the option to choose between Adobe 8 and Adobe 9.  Adobe 9 was found to not work well with toshiba copiers.  Adobe 9 can be used for PDF Forms that need … Continue reading →

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Math ‘n Moodle

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

New Tutorial: how to insert Math into Moodle using LyX.

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