Primary Technology have released an Etherpad solution for schools called Primary Pad, details are still sketchy. I am working on the project and very few decisions have been made as the project is being run by the educator community. If you have any suggestions for this service please mention them on this pad.
Change the etherpad port from 9000 to port 80
edit etherpad/etc/etherpad.localdev-default.properties
# replace
listen = 9000
# with
listen = 80
# Restart etherpad
bin/run-local.sh
Installing Sun Java 1.6 on Debian using Apt-Get
echo “deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
apt-get update
apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Alternative to Sparklebox
As sparklebox is blocked / banned / running into a few issues for a reason unknown and some teachers need teaching resources I wanted to just let you know there is an alternative!
Primary School Teaching has a great bank of teaching resources and you can upload your own and share resources with other teachers making it the perfect alternative to Sparklebox.
Facebook connect on playstation 3 (ps3)
Turns out that the playstation 3 doesn’t like facebook, also turns out that the playstation 3 has strange javascript controls and displays pages in a weird fashion (weird css support).
I love the option of browsing the internet on a playstation but it has to work correct.
News on when the playstation 3 will support facebook connect is sketchy, according to Sony it already does.
I have updated the playstation and it still doesn’t seem to want to work with the facebook connect function from Primary School Teaching
If anyone can shed any more light on this please leave a comment!