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I have submitted some volcano games to Primary Games Arena. Click here to see a list of Flash Volcano Games that can be used in Primary School lessons and home. I was hoping I could have a widget wrote today that would include all the games inline on this blog post but I keep getting distracted by people wanting to use my laptop to check their flights are still flying.
UPDATE: This has now been done by Stuart Ridout – My thanks goes to him and Shelly Black-Plock for helping.
Hey all, because I’m stuck in Morocco I need help making a new background to go onto Safe Search tomorrow. Usually I use photoshop and design a new background.
Here is a link to some example backgrounds I use at current and in the past:
Winter 800×600
Spring 1140×713
Spring 950×713
The idea for the backgound is to encourage teachers to go paperless for the day for Earth day.
If you have photoshop and can help please create one image at 1140×713 and one at 800×600, the image should not have any content behind the search “buttons” as seen on Safe Search.
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Got my laptop out at the airport and swarms of people came around me to try to get updates for my flight. Turns out I was far more useful than the girls on the desk. Idea for a business, non biased, non liable information desk that is purely a peon charging £1 per person for information at times like this.
Unbelievable how bad the information flow is from the airlines to the desks. In Morroco the cues here are large, thankfully I’m with Easyjet and not Ryanair.
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Let’s play a little game: We serve 100k+ web pages each day across our services, how much feedback do you recon we get each day? 50? 40? 30? If only.. We get about 1 piece of feedback a day from all of the services combined.
Why is that? Teachers love to tell you what they think face to face but never fill in web based forms even if they get stuck with something. My plea to you is that you give any website you visit feedback, wether positive or negative. Infact without any positive feedback at all from my contacts on twitter I don’t think I would even be involved in 1/2 the projects I am which means great free sites like Primary Games Arena would disappear into a void.
Who benefits from you clicking the feedback/twitter button? Nearly all feedback from teachers is letting us know that they are having problems using a tool in the classroom, be it confusing, foreign, buggy or just weird. The thing that teachers should know is that usually a developer gets given a brief of a problem and codes the most elegant, simple solution. User interface is often the software developers 2nd priority.
You own the web. Don’t forget that it’s the users that truly own the web, so if there is a site that you think has a bad interface, don’t wait till you meet the owner of the site face to face, click that feedback button and unleash Hell! We genuinely want to hear from you, both positive and negative!
I fear for the future. The future of tablets. Ugh. More output, less input (from visitors). I mean, you have an extra hurdle to get to the keyboard, I expect you will feedback less. That makes me a sad bunny 🙁
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