Category: ICT

How to enforce safe search with google search cse

Posted on by John McLear

Enforce Safe Search by passing name=safe value=vss

I assume VSS stands for Very Safe Search

This will disable the ability for a user to change their safe search settings from strict to off.

Here is an example for you

<form action="http://www.google.com/cse" id="cse-search-box">
  <div>
  <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="000753778363423014722:xie0vouxf9m" />
    <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
    <input type="hidden" name="filter" value="1" />
    <input type="text" name="q" size="35" style="font: normal 25px Arial; line-height:25px;" id="q"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="safe" value=vss />
    <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Safe Search" style="font: normal 25px Arial; line-height:25px;" onClick="checksearch()"/>
  </div>
</form>

Quick Primary School Link Creator

Posted on by John McLear

Worst post title ever.  I just did a mock up for Ian Addison and I figured I would share it.

Only took 1 minute, it is just an idea and may never be made, I quite like it, what do you think?

Something similar will already exist, I just don’t know about it?

Either way I could make something like this in 1 to 2 hours from start to finish so if you like it let me know and I will make/host it.

The reason I used shapes/colours instead of thumbnails was so a teacher can say “Click on the red love heart” or the “yellow circle” instead of click on the thing that looks like a granny racing a unicorn.

Double.

I added an admin screen design so Ian could see how to edit a URL.  It detects the title from the URL and I added a new site button to this view.

Construct in the classroom – The free open-source game creator

Posted on by John McLear


Scirra Construct is an game construction tool that looks like it may be a bit too complex for Primary but if someone could create a wizard interface and some primary school templates and maybe a few LA’s start doing some CPD around it the results could be excellent.

I have 2 gripes and they are obvious: It is a download + install application and the games can not be played in a web browser.

If anyone is currently using game maker you should check this post out on why Construct is better.

It certainly has the wow factor but with alternatives like 2simple’s 2DIY and scratch it may feel like overkill to some!

In Safari a Livescribe embed returns: Flash could not connect to the Livescribe server

Posted on by John McLear

I’m using embed code to embed a livescribe object onto a web page and I’m getting an error but only in Safari. Embed code works fine in IE/FF/Chrome
Code is:


<object height="316" width="224" align="middle" id="myFlashContent3" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param value="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swf?path=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A8011600003A99724B00000129451710B5B2790EAA" name="movie" />
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <object height="316" width="224" align="middle" data="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swfpath=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A8011600003A99724B00000129451710B5B2790EAA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img alt="Get Adobe Flash player" src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" /></a></object></object>

Tried updating adobe Flash. Update went fine but still Livescribe still returning:

Flash could not connect to the Livescribe server, or your upload may have failed. Please delete this file from your Livescribe Online account and re-upload it with Livescribe Desktop.

(Code 3)

Any ideas?

UPDATE: I managed to fix this by adding codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0″ to the object code so now the embed code looks like this

<object height="316" width="224" align="middle" id="myFlashContent3" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0">
<param value="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swf?path=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A8011600003A99724B00000129451710B5B2790EAA" name="movie" />
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <object height="316" width="224" align="middle" data="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swfpath=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A8011600003A99724B00000129451710B5B2790EAA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img alt="Get Adobe Flash player" src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" /></a></object></object>