A very quick introduction to what Etherpad can do for you. I made this video for the Etherpad foundation. If you are looking for Etherpad for your school check out Primary Pad.
Safe Search tricks by Tony Vincent
Tony did a great presentation on some of the tricks you can do with Safe Search and normal Google Search, try them out!
Tim Rylands presentation at Games Based Learning
Tim is a great presenter, sit back end enjoy.
Usually when we talk about Games based learning we expect that children will be the consumers of the game, not the creators. With more creativity coming into the new primary curriculum it will be interesting to see how classrooms:
- Become creative
- Decide on a target audience for their creations
- Publish their creativity
- Get assessed on their creative outpu
I hope that within the next 5 years pupils will be making their own games of a high enough quality and engagement for us to share on Primary Games Arena
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Etherpad closure, it’s official!
So folks Etherpad.com is definatley closing, and only 2 weeks later than I predicted. Do not fret though, Etherpad.org (Run by the Open source Etherpad Foundation) has promised to have a good transition plan in place within the next 7 days and I will be helping with the process. Etherpad isn’t dead, if anything this is just the beginning 🙂
Obviously I recommend schools use Primary Pad but I am biased.
Here is an extract from Aaron Iba’s statement:
- EtherPad service will remain the same until April 14th.
- On April 14th, we will disable new pad creation, but you will still be able to access your existing pads.
- On May 14th, we will shut down the service and replace the etherpad.com home page with links to other services.
As a reminder, here are two helpful ways to get your data off of EtherPad servers:
- For free public pads, you can export the pad data to various formats through the “Import/Export” tab at the top of the pad page.
- For Professional Edition pads, you can export pads individually or download a single ZIP file of all your pad data by clicking the “Download all pads” link at the bottom of the pad list.