Frog Porridge?

On a recent trip to Malaysia, while installingFrog for Alice Smith School, Carl took a photo:

Gutted……literally…..

Suits you, sir!

John Walker returned to Frog after a few months sampling another business and we’re really glad to have him back.

Because he’s been here before, the development team decided to dress up in suits (for the first time ever – and I’m sure there was at least one school uniform in the line up!) in a prank to convince John that we’d all started dressing up professionally since he was last here.  The support team and various other folks around the business soon joined in.

I arrived into work yesterday to be met by a sea of suits, which sent a shudder down my spine, to be honest…..

Anyway, some pennies have been donated by the folks at Frog to both Cancer Research UK, and Diabetes UK.

In case you’re wondering, no, sorry, I didn’t come in in a suit – I had to go somewhere that day – if I’d have been in the office all day and not had to meet a customer, I would have put a suit on for a laugh…..

I’m told the objective was to get John to come in to work today wearing a suit, but apparently he doesn’t own a tie, so he’s in his jeans.

Widgets from the North of England

There appears to have been some confusion around the widgets that I’ve been putting up here in the last few weeks.  These are not built by Frog, they are built by schools using Frog.  They are not part of the product, but things that are being created all over the country by you guys!

And on that note, the folks at Cramlington have some of their own widgets, below.  These have been built by Chris allen, Caroline Forster and Graham Quince, well done folks!  As a side note, Cramlington are enjoying 5,000 unique visitors, and around 50,000 page views per day, about 5 times more than a typical Frog school!

In the first video they have an Activity Timer, PEEL Dice, Active Listening, Word Cloud, Traffic Lights, Thermometer, and a simple Testing engine.

The second video shows a Random Name Selector, used to support their Hands Down Assessment for Learning Policy.  The students names are coming directly from their MIS, which they’re getting at through the Frog API.

And in case anyone’s interested, they’ve even provided the code here

40th Birthday Thanks

Thank you to everyone from the office for the surprise birthday present and card yesterday. Whiskey, “birthday boy” balloons, wicked card, and a birthday cake!!

Thanks everyone!!

Christmas Frog

Rich Williams from Bradley Stoke Community School has been busy creating a christmas design for their VLE.  They’re also planning to do the same for New Year, Easter, and Halloween.

Cool, isn’t it?

Frog Shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2010

Frog have been shortlisted again for the ICT Company of the Year in the Bett Awards 2010 !!

Up against us this year are:

• Avermedia
• Capita Children’s Services
• Education City
• Espresso Education
• Inclusive Technology

Let’s hope this year is Frog’s year !!

A BIG thank you to everyone at Frog for everything you’ve done this year.  It’s because of how hard you folks work and how much you care that we get shortlisted for awards like this.

Thank you.

Sneak Peek at Frog’s Assessment Widgets

Kris has been putting a skin onto our new Assessment (SIMS) widgets.  Here are just a couple to look at, but this is nothing compared to what else we have.  I’ll get a screenshot of some of the other ones up in the next week or two.

 

These are still in development, but I thought that from here on in, I might provide a sneak peek of all sorts of things that we’re doing so you folks can get a taste of what we’re working on at any given time.  The deal is though folks, that you don’t ask me when or if anything is due for release – that info will have to come through formal channels – this is just me sending the odd bit of unofficial info out, we’ll call it our little secret ;0)

More Widgets – You’ve gotta see this!!!

The boys at Ninestiles have decided to up the game.  I’m not going to tell you what it is, so you’ll have to take a look.

Brace yourselves……

More Frog Widgets

Niall Brennan from Arrowvale School (a relative newcomer to the Frog family) has sent me some widgets they’ve done, didn’t take them long to start creating!!

 

And here’s what they look like in their dashboard:

Nice one Niall – our implementation team tell me that Arrowvale will be one to watch!!

Humping Frog

Lucy was visiting Judd School today.  Apparently they have a mascot for Team Frog (one of 12 competing groups on a recent competition day – they came second….)

While the school is by all accounts on the hunt for a blue frog, the green one appears to have taken more than a liking to the Frog server…..