musings on ministry
Thanks to everyone who has sent me birthday wishes today. The web makes these kinds of greetings much easier and I really appreciate you taking the time to write on my wall on facebook, tweet me a message or even send one of those old fashioned card things. It made me think about how we Read More …
Thanks to all the people who came along to my two seminars at Deep Impact in Aviemore at the weekend. It was good to meet some new people and some old friends. Welcome to my blog if you’re visiting as a result of the sessions at the weekend! Both sessions were recorded but they both Read More …
I’m back on the road again this week, in two ways. The first is in a literal sense… running. 10 years ago I ran a half marathon. It turns out that residual fitness doesn’t last ten years! The second road hitting is to Aviemore to lead a couple of seminars based around the Internet, both Read More …
Yesterday I spent the day with the nice people at Blue Horizon youth project in Aberdeen exploring the possibilities offered by the interweb. I hope they had some fun along the way. Most of the stuff we looked at is over on the web tools page.
Today I’m learning about VOLE. Apparently that’s something to do with Virtual and Online Learning Environments… I’ll let you know what that means as the day progresses. This morning we have been looking at MOODLE. We’re playing with forums, profiles, feedback, messages and stuff. Good fun. The afternoon was spent doing more of the same. Read More …
One of the reasons I like WordPress is the amazing range of free plugins. These plugins let you do some very cool stuff on your site. We’ve been playing with some for podcasting, image galleries and text formatting… I’ve added some of my favourites on the URConnected page.
I’m at the URC’s Windermere Centre in, well, Windermere for the next couple of days to help people play around with their WordPress sites. So, got any great tips for making the most of a WordPress site? Share with the group… please. I’ll blog a bit about what we’re up to and any hints and Read More …