Primary Technology Blog






Uploads from Classdroid are too big in wordpress

 Wed, 08 Sep 2010

Image uploads sent from Classdroid are too large for the wordpress blog to display and it messes up formatting.

Cause:

Classdroid uploads the best quality picture possible.  It is up to wordpress to ensure it doesn’t display it “too big”.

Information:

There is a bug in the max width settings in wordpress that is stopping custom images uploaded by classdroid to be displayed with the max-width variable.  You can set these settings under Admin -> Settings -> Media and set your maximums to something around the 500 mark.

Fix:

i) Until we find a better fix the best fix is to go into each post and manually resize each classdroid upload.

OR

ii)  Use a theme that doesn’t allow objects to spill over from one div to another – aka overflow


 Wed, 08 Sep 2010

We won’t be putting Google Instant on Safe Search because of the problems with predictive search strings.

Here is a screen shot of a search term we would of had problems with.


2 websites with ideas for how to use PrimaryPad

 Mon, 12 Jul 2010

2 Great websites with ideas for how to use PrimaryPad

Ideas to Inspire

and a video by Ian Addison


20 new themes to celebrate 1000 users on PrimaryBlogger

 Thu, 24 Jun 2010

There are now 20 new themes available on PrimaryBlogger.

Which is your favourite? We like the apple one :)

PrimaryBlogger now has 1000 users and is publishing lots of school blog posts each day. You can follow all the blogs here


Embed Wallwisher into Primary Blogger (WordPress)

 Wed, 16 Jun 2010

Create a wallwisher wall
Clock More
Click Embed
Copy the Embed code
Paste it into a blog post


PrimaryPad just got an upgrade!

 Mon, 24 May 2010

We just upgraded PrimaryPad so now its even faster and IE users wont experiences disconnects.  We hope you like it.  It’s about 150x faster now…… yowsers!


Safe Search now has a low bandwidth version

 Thu, 06 May 2010

Find safe search a bit slow to load or jerky on your screen?

There is now a low bandwidth version to speed things up.

Enjoy :)

The safe search monkeys


Primary Blogger new support for iPhone and Android devices

 Tue, 04 May 2010

Your school blog will now automatically look great on an iPhone or Android device.  Enjoy!


Calling all publishers and service providers

 Mon, 03 May 2010

Primary Technology provides an ICT freebie mailing list that goes out to several thousand ICT leaders in the UK.


The idea is to share great free teaching resources with other educators.

Do you think you could help by providing an item, resource or service?  If so please get in touch


Previous freebies have included:
Brainpop exclusive freebies
Primary Games Arena
Prmary Email
Free projector cleaning
Primary Pad
Education City
And lots more..

Primary Pad ? public pads

 Mon, 19 Apr 2010

We are currently experiencing problems with Primary Pad and Internet Explorer.

Users may get disconnected when trying to use Microsoft Internet Explorer and public pads, we are aware of the problem and are looking into a way to fix it.

Sorry for the delay.