I’ll be at the The Domain in Melbourne on the 28th August if anyone wants to talk about Tiny Rock.
Brad Howarth will be interviewing Tony Wheeler from Lonely Planet.
RSVP here if you want to come along.
Category Archives: Rad
The Domain 2008
Scribd Platform for Teacher Resources
Ive finally moved my teacher resources from Scribd to Tiny Rock, well kind of. All the documents plus 150 new ones are still stored on Scribd but displayed on Tiny Rock without all the Scribd guff. The benefit is that I can use the Scribd interface to manage the collection and still maintain a strong [...]
The Real Low Hanging Fruit
Seth Godin has a great explanation in his latest post on the importance of choosing wisely when it comes to vehicle efficiencies. He then links this concept to marketing in the most poignant way.
Since my brother and I are into Ecomodding at the moment I found the post particularly interesting. The 20 June Podcast [mp3] [...]
Fantastic Review of Software
I’m pleased to find out that educators are finding the software useful in the classroom. Although I get immediate feedback from colleagues, somehow international feedback gives me a real buzz. Thanks!
Chinese Characters in Ruby
Don’t you love it when stuff just works! We have been waiting for Litmus to fall over for the last two weeks, it is being pushed way beyond its original design requirements and we are completely blown away by how well it is managing.
Litmus was designed to be easily installed by teachers onto a [...]
Spammed Tiny Rock Testimonials
The Tiny Rock Testimonials page was spammed, what a badge of honour! Over a period of a few days 5 testimonials appeared advertising Russian brides. What’s interesting is that a human did it. The page is a custom HTML form with a kludgy PHP backend, no CMS or other fancyness. Why would anyone invest time [...]
Litmus the Scientific Literacy Software
Have placed a link on Tiny Rock to a demo version of Litmus, the scientific literacy software. Havn’t yet decided how long it will stay there for, so get in fast if you would like look at the work in progress.
Naturally, any feedback would be appreciated.
* Trial Over: Hope everyone who used the system enjoyed [...]
Create The Best Class Lists with Monkey
In my opinion the best use for Monkey is creating faculty class lists of students in a school. Here are the steps:
Prepare a CSV file of student data and import it into Monkey
Record the web of relationships among the students
Update the group size to the number and size of the classes you need
To stream the [...]
Teacher Resources
I’ve crossed 300,000 400,000 unique viewers on my teacher resources. This was my goal when setting it up a few months ago so I’m happy. According to Scribd, this places me at around 90th in the world greater than 100th in the world.
I don’t particularly like scribd or it’s community because of bad experiences with [...]
Testimonials - Read or Write
I spent the last weekend throwing together an automated testimonials page.
It’s automated in the sense that anyone can add a testimonial without having to contact us. Just like adding comments on a blog. I know, I’m scared too.
Anyway, go check out what people are saying about us. And while your there please consider writing a [...]