I could decide to put the full url on the cards as http://usefulwiki.com/londontheatre which is OK, but a bit of a mouthful to mention. What if somebody only remembers the “Useful Wiki” bit. Ah, I’d better put a link to the theatre breaks stuff on the top level index.html page - but that was so ugly. All it did was to send people forward to the wiki itself and mention this blog.

I could have spent some time hand coding a nicer index page, but hadn’t got around to it in all the elapsed time up until now, but then the idea of moving this blog up one level popped up and it seemed like an ideal solution. Let WordPress take care of the fixed pages as well as the blog. I’ve already done this on the capitalstyle domain so I knew it should be possible without upsetting any of the stuff underneath, and by having a fixed page as the front page of the blog, it saves redirecting all of the archive of individual posts here because they can just be assigned to another page called “blog” which puts them back exactly where they were again

And now we have a nice looking (well, I think so) index reference page for anybody who goes directly to usefulwiki.com together with all the functionality of a WordPress blog to add sidebar widgets, blogrolls, updates and plugins.

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.

The wiki began with a section on Better Reading Partners , a scheme to encourage child readers who are mildly struggling.

To date we have some interesting notes on Project Based learning which arose from a conference seminar which Linda attended, the beginning of a very useful collection of resources on Practical Literacy Ideas and now some expert information and practical resources on the topic of Autism from “ultramum”.

There are several more new topics in the pipeline as well, with new people showing an interest in contributing some of their own resources, an act from which benefits both the contributor and the wider readership from now and into the future.

The status of these jobs is currently tracked on the More setup tasks page, but may get mentioned in the development category on the blog too, like this. So now we have

• a moveable search box,
• rss rendering,
• embedded media ( youtube and googlevideo) ,
• simple create a page
•  adsense template,
• uploading of pdf files enabled with direct linking,
• and a favicon.

The google analytics and hierarchy extensions might wait until there is a need.

Onwards and upwards with the content, community and contexts.

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