Primary Technology Blog

Pictograph tool: New features

October 18, 2011 in ict, primary school by Admin Admin | No comments

We’re please to announce some new features in to our pictograph creation tool.
1. Flip pictograph from vertical to horizontal
2. Set count to 0
3. Preview response prior to click

Make your own pictogram with the Primary Technology Free online Pictogram creator

PrimaryPad now works on Apple mobile devices

October 14, 2011 in ict, primary pad, primary school, primarypad by Admin Admin | No comments

When we designed PrimaryPad we knew that editing content on mobile devices would be an issue for a lot of people especially Apple device owners. Today we are pleased to announce that any Apple device running iOS5 will be able to edit pad contents. Enjoy!

Updated School Holidays dates widget

October 2, 2011 in ict, my school holidays by Admin Admin | No comments

We recently updated the school holiday widget on My School Holidays. To get yours simply visit My School Holidays, find your school and copy/paste the embed code into your blog, learning platform or website.

On top of the visual updates we have put in we are in the process of adding holiday dates for 5 more countries and we have an app in the works!

NEW FEATURE: Online Pictogram / Pictograph creator

September 28, 2011 in ict, primary school, Safe Search by Admin Admin | No comments

A few days ago Matt Lovegrove mentioned he didn’t have any simple pictogram (aka pictogramme / pictograph) software for his network so we went about making him something up!

We decided to make a simple, free, online pictogram creator. This gives you the freedom to use the tool however you see fit!

Key Features:

Images automatically load
Up to 5000 items/rows
We still have no ideas if this is supposed to be called a pictogramme, pictogrammen, pictogram or pictograph creator..
No need to download/install any software
Completely free
Super awesome.
Open source

PrimaryEmail issues [Resolved]

September 22, 2011 in ict, primary email, School Email by Admin Admin | No comments

We’re aware a few schools are having problems with inbound email on our School Email service. We have isolated the fault and we’re working to fix it. We aim to have it resolved by 3pm (15:00) UK time.

UPDATE: This is now resolved! Apologies to anyone affected!

NEW FEATURE: Forever image and more images on Safe Search

September 19, 2011 in ict, primary school, Safe Search by Admin Admin | No comments

Safe Search now has better image search functionality, returning more results and formatting them better for Primary Pupils! Try it out now

NEW FEATURE: PrimaryPad autoQue / Teleprompter

September 19, 2011 in ict, primary pad, primary school, primarypad, Safe Search by Admin Admin | No comments

Ever wanted to make a movie and needed an autoQue? Well why not collaboratively write your script in PrimaryPad then export it straight to our autoQue tool?

We have released the autoQue tool under an open source license and we will be adding it to the suite of tools available through the safe search website.

Check it out now, visit this pad then click Export –> autoQue

PrimaryBlogger Updates

September 11, 2011 in PrimaryBlogger by Ed Cooper | No comments

It’s been a long two weeks. We’ve moved PrimaryBlogger over to our new servers and hopefully you’ll now have a more stable and fast experience with your blogs. You’ll also see a lot of changes happening graphically and functionality wise to improve your overall experience of PrimaryBlogger.

Heres a list of the things we’re currently doing and are looking at for the future:

Soon, we’ll be starting polls and asking for feedback for any changes you would like to see or improve upon, be it themes, plugins or something else.
To improve overall speed of the site we’ve turned off some of the plugins we use by default, don’t worry you can still enable them in the plugins section in the wp-admin area.
We’ve added the ability to remove your user account if you so wish.
More spam fighting tools.
Use PrimaryBlogger to host your school’s website.
PrimaryBlogger custom themes.

New PrimaryBlogger website coming soon.
PrimaryBlogger Pro and other packages coming soon.
A better PrimaryBlogger support website coming soon.

We hope you enjoy everything we’ve done, let us know any feedback in the comments, Twitter, Primary Technology answers forum or by email.

PrimaryBlogger issues

September 5, 2011 in PrimaryBlogger by Admin Admin | No comments

Our newest server (The one we moved the admin section of PrimaryBlogger onto temporarily over the next few days) is running really badly and this is causing other problems. We hope to have stability fully restored tonight. It’s been a rough few days and we wish we did this work earlier in the holidays…

Our contribution to collaborative writing

August 22, 2011 in ict, primary pad by Admin Admin | No comments

Since December 2009 we have been contributing towards an open-source project called Etherpad. Open source projects can be described as free software that is free to modify, use and redistribute. Etherpad has been the technology we have used for PrimaryPad. Today Etherpad Lite finally reached Version 1 which means it’s ready for download and widely adopted usage. We’re really proud of this achievement and we hope to support the project into the future.

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