I'm the Technical Director @ j2e, and this is a technical account of what I'm doing and thinking. You're welcome to send me your thoughts and suggestions for j2e.
My blog is edited using j2e.
My blog is edited using j2e.
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Monday 18th May
The Rose Report is a wide ranging report that will affect the curriculum in primary schools. I have reviewed it in the context of j2e. It seems to me that j2e is a tool that covers so many areas mentioned in the Rose Report, a tool that allows multimedia presentation using a wide range of media (text, pictures, animation, sound, video), to a wide audience (as big as the world!), with sharing and collaboration. For a more detailed review, look here. Encourage your pupils to use j2e for communication across the curriculum.
Use of j2e contains to accelerate. We now have 17,000 user files, containing 25,000 pictures. For these files there are 61,000 revisions, so each file is worked on and resaved an average of 3.6 times. These figures exclude the LGfL trial, which runs on a separate server. I wonder how big these figures will be by the end of the year? Use j2e for your own work as well as your pupils, we do!
Friday 27th March
Just got a 3G card, so I can use j2e anywhere, and update my blog from Gatwick airport whilst waiting for a plane! We've added a freehand pen tool to j2e, take a look here.
Wednesday 11th March
Last week at the Naace conference some people had a treat. Danny gave a Master class lecture to 25 delegates. Having shown them the j2e basics, he proceeded to demonstrate live collaboration on a big screen. The delegates all contributed from their computers onto a single document. Whereas Danny had though he might control the contributions, everyone dived in, producing a very active document. The next day Brian Smith told me how good it was, and that the result became greater than the sum of the parts. I really wish I had been there!
The latest version of j2e includes superusers for authorities. This gives authorities a view of how j2e is being used by their schools, and helps them to promote good practice. Read the help sheet for more details.
Monday 9th February
I've been quite slow using some of this new web technology, for example RSS feeds. Having studied these I am now an RSS convert, and so you can now use RSS feeds with j2e pages. RSS feeds can be quite complex, so in j2e I have tried to simplify them to the minimum, in my usual way!
Click on the orange feed icon to add my blog to your reader, and you will be notified whenever I update this blog. If you don't know what I am talking about then learn more here.
Monday 2nd February
We had a great BETT exhibition, much interest from Local Authorities looking to add j2e to their VLEs. If you missed us at BETT take a look at my 5 minute demo. We are next showing at the Naace Annual Strategic Conference in Blackpool.
For February, I have added a new word list to the library for Valentines day. Our word lists are a great way of helping children be creative with writing.
Wednesday 7th January
Why does it say Giraffe? Well, I was playing, and the texture seemed to fit the word!
Version 2.02 introduces a selection hint box, to help you see what you are selecting or placing the caret in. It also has a help box on the button bar, if you are stuck it will use Google to search our help pages. I think they are both great additions, but as always your feedback is welcome.
Friday 2nd January
I wish you a very happy 2009.
At j2e we are getting ready for the BETT show at Olympia, London 14-17 January. Do drop in to stand Q26 and see us.
Version 2.01 released. It is very well integrated for Shibboleth users, and now ties into the Worcestershire Learning Gateway beautifully, using their single sign-on. If you are an authority using single sign-on, get in touch and we can integrate j2e for you.
I'm typing this on a shiny new MacBook. Very nice kit! and of course that meant a few Mac tweaks for j2e, also in 2.01.
At BETT you can also see j2e running on the new Intel powered ClassMatePC as well as on the Asus Eee PC.
older-> Geoff's j2e blog 2008
The Rose Report is a wide ranging report that will affect the curriculum in primary schools. I have reviewed it in the context of j2e. It seems to me that j2e is a tool that covers so many areas mentioned in the Rose Report, a tool that allows multimedia presentation using a wide range of media (text, pictures, animation, sound, video), to a wide audience (as big as the world!), with sharing and collaboration. For a more detailed review, look here. Encourage your pupils to use j2e for communication across the curriculum.
Use of j2e contains to accelerate. We now have 17,000 user files, containing 25,000 pictures. For these files there are 61,000 revisions, so each file is worked on and resaved an average of 3.6 times. These figures exclude the LGfL trial, which runs on a separate server. I wonder how big these figures will be by the end of the year? Use j2e for your own work as well as your pupils, we do!
Friday 27th March
Just got a 3G card, so I can use j2e anywhere, and update my blog from Gatwick airport whilst waiting for a plane! We've added a freehand pen tool to j2e, take a look here.
Wednesday 11th March
Last week at the Naace conference some people had a treat. Danny gave a Master class lecture to 25 delegates. Having shown them the j2e basics, he proceeded to demonstrate live collaboration on a big screen. The delegates all contributed from their computers onto a single document. Whereas Danny had though he might control the contributions, everyone dived in, producing a very active document. The next day Brian Smith told me how good it was, and that the result became greater than the sum of the parts. I really wish I had been there!
The latest version of j2e includes superusers for authorities. This gives authorities a view of how j2e is being used by their schools, and helps them to promote good practice. Read the help sheet for more details.
Monday 9th February
I've been quite slow using some of this new web technology, for example RSS feeds. Having studied these I am now an RSS convert, and so you can now use RSS feeds with j2e pages. RSS feeds can be quite complex, so in j2e I have tried to simplify them to the minimum, in my usual way!
Click on the orange feed icon to add my blog to your reader, and you will be notified whenever I update this blog. If you don't know what I am talking about then learn more here.
Monday 2nd February
We had a great BETT exhibition, much interest from Local Authorities looking to add j2e to their VLEs. If you missed us at BETT take a look at my 5 minute demo. We are next showing at the Naace Annual Strategic Conference in Blackpool.
For February, I have added a new word list to the library for Valentines day. Our word lists are a great way of helping children be creative with writing.
Wednesday 7th January
Why does it say Giraffe? Well, I was playing, and the texture seemed to fit the word!
Version 2.02 introduces a selection hint box, to help you see what you are selecting or placing the caret in. It also has a help box on the button bar, if you are stuck it will use Google to search our help pages. I think they are both great additions, but as always your feedback is welcome.
Friday 2nd January
I wish you a very happy 2009.
At j2e we are getting ready for the BETT show at Olympia, London 14-17 January. Do drop in to stand Q26 and see us.
Version 2.01 released. It is very well integrated for Shibboleth users, and now ties into the Worcestershire Learning Gateway beautifully, using their single sign-on. If you are an authority using single sign-on, get in touch and we can integrate j2e for you.
I'm typing this on a shiny new MacBook. Very nice kit! and of course that meant a few Mac tweaks for j2e, also in 2.01.
At BETT you can also see j2e running on the new Intel powered ClassMatePC as well as on the Asus Eee PC.
older-> Geoff's j2e blog 2008
Naace
2009
Blackpool
2009
Blackpool