School Wall Virtual Learning Environment

school wall activity view

Simplicity is the key for this amazing online learning tool for use in the classroom and in schools everywhere. The intuitive design makes learning how to create activities a piece of cake!

Learning portal for schools

School Wall has been developed to ensure the ease of use and effective sharing of electronic resources in activity based class lessons and even extending to the home.

Quickly and easily enroll students and teachers onto your school wall, create a student group and assign them to an activity. Mix and match students from different groups!

The quick link toolbar embeds and inserts electronic resources for you, so there are no worries about coding or even inserting links and YouTube code into the html view of a page into your activities. Easily add web links, upload documents and files, music, sounds, videos and even record you own voice or class singing with your computer or laptop microphone!

Add electronic learning resources

The simple but effective Activity Wizard allows you to set who can see activities within your school, set very specific access and visibility settings, whether comments require approval, whether group members can see other groups members and of course you can mark and reward Students with stars for the effort and contribution

The nice touch to School Wall is that all users have their own personal wall where they can write and blog about their school life and share resources.

Rewards & Awards for online learning

All this is topped off with a site usage reward system, where students and teachers time on the site and their contribution earns them points, and at specific thresholds, points are turned into shields. Students earn points for logging on, encouraging them to check their School Wall regularly and add personal Wall comments.

With Super Teachers being able to set site wide permissions for limiting and extending usability, School Wall can easily be tailor made to your school’s needs

The online hosted service is fully backed up with support and free upgrades throughout the term of your contract

School Wall has been designed to ensure even the most cautious users can contribute and get online

For your demo or a meeting, please call 0845 539 2552

Catch Up

WOW, it’s been a busy few months at Fresher Designs and e-Brochure and i just have not had time to blog! apologies!

Take a quick look at a few of the great websites we have produced and developed and e-Publications too!

Our full porfolio can be found via our website design page

e-Publications, Amazing Flash Page-Turning Flip Books

The Sunday Telegraph Aquitaine e-Publication

Luxury Accommodation on the Isle of Wight

Amazing apartments on the Isle of Wight overlooking Shanklin Beach. Visit www.ShanklinVilla.co.uk

Luxury Apartments on the Isle of Wight

Outstanding Childcare from the Quality Extended Schools Team

Wrap around school care and nursery

I’ll try and pop back and publish other great websites soon!

Roller Blinds for the shorter night

Affordable Roller Blinds and Luxury Vericals to add style to your home

The nights are drawing in and the lights are going on.  It’s time to brighten the inside of your home with new roller blinds. Dim out blinds are perfect to let some light enter your room and give you the privacy you need in the kitchen or bathroom.

Roller Blinds for winter sun

incrediBlinds offer you a wide variety of materials and colours for the perfect finish to any room in your home. Blackout blinds keep the low level sunshine entering your lounge room and fading carpets, furniture and wall paintings. Textured or plain, bold or subtle, visit incrediBlinds for great prices and choice.

Blind samples

If you are dizzy with the choice from the incrediBlinds website then they offer a free sample service. All blind materials can be made as rollers or vertical blinds and therefore you can easily mix and match to suit small windows, high windows and door blinds.

Nancy Turnbull – Scottish Artist & Painter

Take a look at Nancy Turnbull’s Gallery of paintings of Scottish Landscapes, Scottish Lochs, Scottish Beaches and Scenery. Visit www.NancyTurnbull.co.uk

Beach at Sanaig Mhor

Add a contact form to your WordPress Blog

A simple contact form can easily be added to your WordPress Posts/ Comments / Pages

Simply –
1. Switch to HTML view

2. Paste [contact-form] in the appropriate place

3. Publish

Note –

Logged in users will see their logged in status and comment box

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Unregistered users will see reguired options and a place for their website address abd comment box

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Website (required)
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This is quite a nifty online tool and is a great catch the eye of your social networking buddies. There are a few websites that will do it for you (unfortunately it is not simply the case to hold down the Alt key with your nose and press Ctrl with your toe…)

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You do have to visit another website, type in your text which will automatically convert your ʇxǝʇ.

Here’s a really simple website

http://www.en.fliptext.net/

OR if you want to have a bit more fun, why not check out:

http://www.flipmytext.com/

There are loads of website ready to flip into action – just search!!!

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Gas Leak Detection Wireless Safety System

Carbon Dioside Detector

Magne-Flo Wireless Gas Detection and Shut Off System has been developed to detect harmful levels of Carbon Monoxide, Natural or Liquid Gases in the home and provide both Visual and Audible Alarms and Shut Off the gas supply to prevent further gas build up.

The Silent Killer – Carbon Monoxide

Carbon Monoxide and other natural gases can build up on your home and cause death! You and your family  do not need to be the next statistic of being suffocated by the odourless, colourless gases.

Home Gas Detector

The systems are flexible, simple to install and offer the Home-owner the highest level of protection against Carbon Monoxide poisoning or the build up of combustible gases.

System Overview – Wireless

Gas Detector Control Panel

The Wireless Carbon Monoxide and Combustible Gas Detection and Shut Off system comprises of a Wireless Control Panel which can be linked with up to 3 Detectors – Carbon Monoxide, Natural Gas or LPG -  and in the event of harmful gas levels being detected this Control Panel provides power to a Gas Meter Control Lever Actuator to close the Gas Supply.

For more information visit www.Magne-Flo.co.uk

Commission a Mosaic for Your Business

Fresher Designs Strawberry Logo Created as a Mosaic

When you need personalised artwork for your business or workspace, then why not opt for a fabulous mosaic from Jackie Nash Art. Choose a theme, landscape, vision or your corporate logo of any size and have a bespoke mosaic created just for you.

External or internal mosaic?

Jackie Nash will create a stunning mosaic for you entrance hall wall, floor focal point or external wall space. Simply call 0845 539 2164 or visit www.JackieNashArt.com to commission a mosaic

Jackie uses a range of glitzy, pearlescent tiles, along with an array of rainbow colours to create the perfect mosaic masterpiece.

Your restaurant may need to be brightened up with a mirror mosaic for the reception are or even loo!

Schools and colleges don’t need to miss out as Jackie will actually visit to create work with the children to create a memorable mosaic.

Tiny Impressions of Your Child’s Hands & Feet

A careful impression of a baby's hand and foot

Do you have a baby or young child? Do you want to capture the impressions of their tiny hands and feet?

Well, now you can at Tiny Imprints. Look no further for your perfect impressions of your child’s hands and feet

Tiny Imprints, offer highly detailed impressions of your child’s hands and feet, beautifully handcrafted to your specifications and mounted in your choice of a fully lined box frame

A careful impression will be made from your child’s hands or feet in specially prepared clay. From that a plaster cast is made which captures the tiny lines and details in a 3D impression. This then is beautifully presented with name and age taken

3D impressions

The hand and feet imprints will capture a moment in time of the development and growth of your child, a moment that can never be captured again – truely a treasured memory and perfect baby keepsake.

You can have a variety of combinations and even include older children in your framed treasured memory box. Take a look at Tiny Imprints for two  baby’s hands impressions or 2 child’s feet impressions. Or even one hand and one foot!

Visit www.TinyImprints.com

Why TWITTER?… should you? do you need to?

The benefits of Twitter and Tweeting has certainly been proven by many business over time and loved by people who want to share their location, feelings and nonsensical status. It’s a proven way of raising your business profile and following your buddies and favourite superstars on a regular basis.

How do you get Followers? Of course, if you have a webpage you can ask people “To follow me on Twitter” but I suppose the easiest way is to follow other people, retweet their posts and reply to comments they make. For me, I really like Twitter as the 140 character limit means I don’t have to spend ages on typing – I can keep it short and ‘t’weet.

Here are my Top Twitter Tips for successful Tweeting

Dont Tweet too often in any one day – people get fed up seeing your icon filling the screen and will probably ‘unfollow‘ you

Retweet great comments, jokes and special offers – be useful… spread the word… make your Tweets interesting enough and get Retweeted!

Find and follow others by clicking on their @name or by searching for them

Use the @name within your posts to create a clickable link to the fellow-tweeter

Businesses share your offers, new product news and competitions

Say hi to your new Followers – they will like to think you care!

Reply quickly to questions – people will have bought elsewhere, moved on and got fed up with waiting… it’s a fast moving e-world

Use the Hash # Tag to anchor conversations, add this symbol before a word, phrase, or abbreviation as it creates a mini-search engine phrase that can be looked up and followed

My frustrations of Twitter

If someone responds to a Tweet, I cant remember what the tweet may have been about… Try a ‘Direct Message’ from your Following List or use # Hash Tag. AND people don’t really like half of a conversation by viewing retweets… It’s a personal preference and with Twitter being used for lots of reasons, you need to find the best way forward for you

Don’t forget

If you love Twitter you can Tweet from the web, your mobile, or by SMS

So there are a few tips – I am sure there’ll be more!