This year, Mrs Smyth has established a blog at Posterous to allow us to record our activities in London as they happen, direct from our mobile phones.  We'll also be able to use the computers in the youth hostel to make updates. 

The blog is at - http://gangstapanda.posterous.com

Michael now has his S6 portfolio site up and running.

There's a link from his portfolio page to a gallery of work.  We hope that he'll post more on a regular basis.

Michael's site is at - http://mspeirs.folio1.org.

CDTlog is our new departmental blog, which '...hopes to capture the huge variety of learning that takes place on a daily basis.'

CDTlog has been established by our new teacher, Krysia Smyth, who joined us at the start of the session. Until very recently, Mrs Smyth has been employed at the Scottish Qualifications Authority, having completed her probation year in the west of Scotland, in June 2008. We expect to post more info about Mrs Smyth on the 'Staff' page of our main site soon.

Mrs Smyth is keenly interested in the integration of on-line tools to aid teaching and learning, and has made a flying start here at Royal High.

Gail recently built a web site as part of her submission for the 'Design Enquiry' course element of Advanced Higher Art & Design.  She chose to tackle 'Graphic Design for Edinburgh Zoo'.

She took an open source site template and heavily modified it, replacing all the images, colour scheme and page proportions.  All the pages of her site are built to comply with the 'xhtml strict' web standard.  Her submission to SQA included a copy of the site burnt on to CD, complete with a label with the same graphics as the site.

Gail used the open source web editor 'Amaya', as well as Inkscape and Gimp to prepare the graphics. 

Gail's Advanced Higher Art & Design Edinburgh Zoo site is at http://zoo.folio1.org. 

Gail's Advanced Higher Graphics portfolio site is at http://gailgibb.folio1.org.