Technology and Social Action blogs

csv

John Lindsay — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:34:27 +0000

I was struck yesterday by someone referring to csv

and was astounded

Facilitating problem based learning

John Lindsay — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:30:49 +0000

Purpose learning :: problem education

SKOS

John Lindsay — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:19:09 +0000

here is the first piece of new casework I have since the meeting which involves technology, social action, participative methods,

and the mistery of why the file I sent has all its formatting data stripped out

Call for Book chapters: Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Learning

nikilambropoulos — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:27:13 +0000

Call for Book chapters:

Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Learning: Collaborative Methods & Human Interaction

ICT SUrvey in North East for Voluntary Sector Groups

Bernard Clarke — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:13:17 +0000

I have just been sent a link to this page from the Capaity Builders e-letter.

I thought some of us may be interested in a survey of ICT needs in the voluntary sector?

http://www.voluntaryskills.com/ictsurvey

Bernard

BITfixIT

alan dawson — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:11:40 +0000

A community run volunteer powered openaccess workshop where people can get free IT advice and access in the Pitsmoor area of Sheffield.
http://www.burngreave.net/mailman/listinfo/cafe
http://www.bitfixit.co.uk
Its looking to develop training to help its volunteer techies get better Linux and FLOSS skills

A Big Piece of Paper

Steve Thompson — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:41:00 +0000

The saying goes that the best websites start with a piece of paper. This is just that the core team (below, minus one missing person) have been doing to design their new Digital Village website.

The Digital Village Develops

Steve Thompson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:29:00 +0000

Leading on from the MyWeb2 project Margrove Park have been successful in a funding bid to develop their "Digital Village" and will sustain the Village Hall Internet connection beyond the current project and provide them with their own bank of laptops. We're quite excited at the prospect of developing the Digital Village concept further and in the bid we spoke of creating a virtual Post Office, Corner Shop, School and Job Shop as the village has none of these things.

I'm sure we could replicate it elsewhere. One thing to take into account, if a Village has a real post office then such a thing (Virtial PO ) would be counter productive. Margrove Park do not have this.

Virtual Post Office - All the things you can do online such as apply for a TV License, RE-tax your car. Taxing your car online for instance is far more efficient than going to a post office.

Virtual, Job Shop - job search online, pointers and advice, CV's etc - closely connected to ..............

Virtual School - The Digital Skills Network currently in development. Online support and learning on a range of subjects including how to run your virtual post office.

Virtual Corner Shop particularly useful to older residents, they club together to form a consorteum to be able to place an order sufficiently large to warrant a Tescos/Iceland - whoever Groceries delivery

Physically how this works is there will be a bank or laptops available at regular times in the Village Hall for people to come in to use these facilities. They're operated by the core group who are not absolute experts but have just enough expertise and local knowledge to make it work.

Redirecting on Access Denied Errors

alan dawson — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:40:36 +0000

Drupal gives ability to control access to content.

If a user hits some content that gives a 403 error ( access denied ) either because they have not got correct access rights,
or are anonymous it is possible to control what happens next.

This php snippet does just that.

getting stats from drupal watchdog

alan dawson — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:33:32 +0000

here are some simple examples of some SQL to get information from watchdog, using sql string matching...

SELECT message,timestamp FROM watchdog WHERE message LIKE '%daws%' 
AND type='user' AND message NOT LIKE 'notify%';

you get the idea...
to see how many password resets I'd asked for I'd do

SELECT hostname,message,timestamp FROM watchdog 
WHERE message LIKE '%Password%' and type='user' 
AND message LIKE '%ligh%';

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM watchdog 
WHERE message LIKE '%Password%' and type='user' AND MESSAGE LIKE '%dawson%';