Blogs

Imagine having to change your name to get a job!

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, is predicting that many young people will need to change their names in order to escape the embarrassment of youthful antics stored more or less permanently on social networking websites. What seems hilarious to a 17 year old may not impress a future employer.

Google admits it's keen to get even more personal information about their millions of Google users, admitting they already "know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about and roughly who your friends are."

Lots of schools are getting great use out of the new blogs in KiwiSchools 2.0

One issue that takes a bit of time, however, is checking and moderating the comments which visitors (yes, and bored teenagers and spam robots) add to your blogs (and other pages)

Now, when you log in as administrator, you will see - below the User Menu - a notification of how many blog posts have not been reviewed, with a nice link which takes you straight there!

During the Term 2 holiday break, we updated the IMAGE UPLOADER you use to add photos to web pages, blogs etc.

Functionality is actually the same, but the user interface is much easier to use - try uploading a photograph and see for yourself how much more user-friendly it is!

We have updated the tutorial for Adding Photos.. click this link:

http://www.kiwischools.co.nz/adding-photos-your-blog-or-other-web-page

We're trialling a new way to display the many photos a school has to show the world!

There are two major websites which let you manage large numbers of photos and galleries:  www.flickr.com and www.picasa.com (One's owned by Yahoo, the other, by Google) It seems Flickr leads the way on the KiwiSchools 2.0 platform.

Gosh, it's been a while, but we've finally upgraded the KiwiSchools site with a brand new theme and updated content.

It's taken a while... we've been so busy building sites for schools that there just hasn't been time til right at the end of the holidays.

You're obviously looking at the new site now - we hope you like it.  Feel free to leave a comment - there's a link just below...

We now have several video tutorials online - perfect for website Admins and Teachers.

There is a link to a section labelled Support & Tutorials at the top of the User Menu when you log in on YOUR school site.  Let us know how you find the video clips!

If you can't view the tutorials:

a. Try with a faster broadband connectio - video chews up bandwidth!
b. Try from home where filtering won't interfere
c. Ask your tech to allow access to vimeo.com

We ended Term 3 with six KiwiSchools 2.0 sites online or about to go online, and nearly twenty more ordered for Term 4.
 
Moving a CMS (content management system) like KiwiSchools to a new platform is a huge undertaking, and we're simply delighted with how smooth the transition has been.
 
A special thanks to the team who've been working so hard to bring KiwiSchools 2.0 to our customers:  Sheree, Liam and Dan have all played key roles in the development and roll-out.