I’m doing a 7 minute presentation on Google’s Hidden Gems at Teachmeet Yorkshire and Humber 2010 at Doncaster South City Learning Centre on 26th March.
The conservative education policy is lead by the wrong person?
Why is a guy who wrote a book on “How the West’s policy of appeasement has provoked yet more fundamentalist terror – and what has to be done now.” now the guy who wants to lead educational policy for the UK?
Cameron claims the conservative party have a “strong team”. In my opinion putting this guy in charge of Education is like putting Captain Jack Sparrow in charge of a new born baby. No surprise then that the conservatives have considered dropping the BSF scheme.
I’m just saying the credentials don’t add up.. Is he seriously the best the conservatives have for this very important job? If they want my vote they will need to do better..
In case you were wondering about the Lib dem’s guy, he can be found here and it’s the same sad song. Same goes for Ed balls, only counter argument is that he was a teaching fellow and has had a few years in the post at current. Gordon Brown also talks on this (if the sponsors price is right):
Thanks to Merlin John for pointing this out
More videos like this can be found here
So the question begs, when will a teacher or someone with actual teaching experience actually lead education in this country?
When you see it you will love it.
What are the Google search team up to?
As part of my job I get hundreds of sites indexed by the Google search spider on a monthly basis. The process is simple:
a) Add site to webmaster tools
b) Verify site
c) Create Sitemap
d) Register Sitemap
It has worked loads of times but for some reason this time it hasn’t. I’m trying to get Yorkshire Training Academy to be indexed. The sitemap is showing up fine and has been “read” by Google but the content of the site hasn’t. All URLS match up and no errors reported. Spooky things going on!
Etherpad minimum requirements (Memory / RAM)
Minimum: 2 GB (It will run on 1 Gig but do you really want to allocate a JVM to use ALL of your ram?)
Recommended: 4GB+ Depending on # of pads & concurrent connections.
I would recommend not running a production Etherpad service on a Virtual PC / VPS or any thing that will interfere with Java accessing the machines memory. You may struggle to build on a VPS depending on your providers swap memory space settings.
Just a quick one, worth posting cause it’s not well documented.