TechDis bid

Great - the TechDis HEAT2 bid was successful! So I have enough money to buy the students in the group a stick so that they can evaluate Portable Firefox for themselves. And the work will get publicity under the TechDis banner. Great. Additional software for the stick looks promising too.

Student Guide

Now we have to change the cover so that it conforms to the Corporate. Mixed feelings as something that has always been in our hands has been taken away. However, I did mention in a small voice about getting them involved before. Possibly it's a good thing as I think that the cover would have benefited from a professional look. However, I am afraid of it coming too anonymous. At least they are not looking at the inside. That would be too much if they did. Still not sure about the changes that they have done. I don't like making a decision without the portal people being involved - [edited] - Great - a Portal Person has come up with a good compromise. Sufficiently small change and linking it to the original cover. Looks good.

Back from Dundee

The conference was wonderful! Very friendly. The icing on the cake was that my poster was awarded "Outstanding Poster". It's great to be recognised.

Dodgy journey back from Edinburgh Airport especially as the security was heightened due to the previous day's car going into Glasgow Airport and bursting into flames.

Busy week

Online @ Coventry University now finished and ready for printing. I hope that the Portal and VLE work as well as the book will! Great that there's more that we can build on. Andy's suggestion of the green arrows was just right.

Posters for Dundee being sorted out. Just the descriptions to do.

My first course at CIPeL as a member tomorrow. Must get an early night. Sticks and the minimum of documentation sorted. Other things can be accessed via the Internet.

Still got to sort out the schedule for the workshops. Will just assign dates. Hopefully all will come out in the wash.

Looking forward to visiting Dundee. Hopefully the conference will be more relaxing as all I've got to do is put up two posters and do a ten-minute session.

Success in upgrading

Just as I hoped and thought, the TiddlyWiki upgraded as a merge. BUT THE SAVE CHANGES OPTION MUST BE DONE!

Managed to sort out the styles too.

Used StyleSheet to drop my styles in - good advice from the tutorials in "wiki for the rest of us" site.

Things are making sense. I just need to get used to using one or two things in the wiki language.

Links seem ok.

So far, so good.

Tiddling

Did some more investigations and discovered that one of the most useful tiddlers that I need is the ImportTiddlers. Unfortunately it wasn't with the one that I was given, so I will have to start again.

A shame as I want a very basic one for the people that I want to use it with, so that they don't get confused with the long list of tiddlers.

I did find out about the permaview which will be very useful in introducing it to first-timers.

I've now got instructions to upgrade my wiki to 2.1 so will have a go at that tomorrow:

NB This DOESN'T SHOW ALL OF THE URL:
http://tiddlywikiguides.org/index.php?title=Upgrading_your_TiddlyWiki_to_2.1.x

The 2.1 - latest version (empty.html) has ImportTiddlers so that's great.
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/empty.html

It looks like all that needs doing is a sort of merge and the upgrade is complete.

Report back from York

Went to an Accessibility SIG meeting and discussed the role of TechDis. Summaries are reported elsewhere.

Glad I changed groups. Joined old friends that I seem to re-meet at these occasions.

The best thing was afterwards having a demo of TiddlyWiki - thank you Alistair!

Now I have a wiki. It's free standing so will park inside the repository but it will also link into CUOnline should it need to go there. (Tested this - OK)

The main disadvantage is that the editor isn't wysiwyg but I think that I should manage to show the basics.

Good travelling home on GNER. Will go via Peterborough in the future.