Some background on the Finnish school system and how it affects school ICT. School technology is a tough job – specialised tools, lots of demanding users, little money and usually also politics are involved in some way. I’m working at…
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Finnish school system and ICT
It has been almost two years since I last wrote about the use of Ubuntu in Finnish schools, so I thought it’d be a good time to write a small update on the current situation. As I was writing things…
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Using ShareJS to synchronize Backbone Models – Backbone.SharedCollection
During the development of Pahvi we needed to add model synchronization to Backbone.js. We decided to give ShareJS a try. It’s developed by Joseph Gentle who worked on Google Wave. It’s an awesome library that allows developers to build small…
Pahvi – A Virtual Collage
We already talked about Pahvi in our main blog in Finnish. In this English developer’s blog we go a little bit deeper into technical details. For example how it was build and which components were used. Pahvi Pahvi walks the…
New experiment: Walma – Collaborative Whiteboard
Schools in Finland are buying tablets like crazy now. The weird thing is that nobody really knows what they are really good for in school environment, but everybody seems to see good potential in them. That’s why we are also…
Testing some web-based services on the android tablet
In my aim to find an answer to the question: “can our teachers replace laptops with tablets?“ I’ve done a little testing. But before we look at that, let’s just have a short look at the presumptions one could have…
Tablets in schools – some thoughts on using them for writing
In this post I will deal with writing on the android -tablet, Acer Iconia 500 tab, I’ve been trying out for a about a week now. While I do this I’m projecting my mind, so to speak, into a classroom…
Android tablets to be tested
Why is someone interested in the possibilities of using tablets or pads in education? Well, it’s novel. New technology and tools that let’s the user access and do stuff with digital data in new ways is interesting. Combine this with…
jQuery Live Search plugin with support for multiple search urls
Thank you Andreas Lagerkvist for Live Search plugin. This will turn a normal form input element in to a live ajax search widget. I added few configuration options to this plugin: minLength: minimum number of characters width: the number of…
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Mimio on linux – test results
MimioTeach is quite different from other tested whiteboard models as it doesn’t actually have a whiteboard, but just a receiver that can be placed on any flat surface. It is meant to be used with normal inkboards, but really any…