usefulwiki.com

Minor upgrade to WordPress 2.8.1 being rolled out to all blogs.

Each of the blogs on this domain has now been upgraded to run under Wordpress 2.7.1

The WP-Supercache Wordpress Plugin has been installed on most of the usefulwiki.com blogs, with some teething problems but nothing too serious. The use of a cache should greatly reduce the load on the webserver CPU by replacing lots of PHP processing with static HTML files.

With the technical setup ready and waiting, and some great content being added the time to announce the existence of usefulwiki.com to the world arrived in October.

First there was the Reinventing_Project-based_Learning book launch at a conference which Linda attended via skype, then an article written for Sharing best Practice by Linda which has caused a splash of interest. There have also been twitters and blogs, and some URL truncators from the Classroom Displays blog which is now piped into various LEA intranets.

Perhaps the most significant news for usefulwiki is that Linda is running a series of training courses for Teaching Assistants and putting all of her course notes on the wiki where students can access them between attendances at the LEA centre. This is what is called “eating our own dogfood”!

Thanks also to Geoff Dellow for creating the Recommended software for education page, which then inspired a Primary ICT page, which now needs to be completed together with one for secondary ICT. And so we begin to build, page by page, contact by contact.