Welcome to Tim’s Place

I’m Tim and the lead developer for this site.   We are in the process of migrating the old proto site to a more modern system, updating content, and cleaning up the look and feel. There is still work to do yet though on the event calendar, contact page, footer and new home page design.  A new registration system will be deployed in the coming month so that we can once again accept user registrations. Documentation is in an early stage but actively being worked on.  Please be patient as we get things cleaned up and better working.   If you encounter any problems or have suggestions, please let me know.   I’ll continue to update this page as new issues are uncovered and old issues resolved (removed).

Current Work

The following is a list of ongoing tasks which need to be resolved.

  • News and Notices section redesign
  • Regular user editor redirect for member and group areas
  • New footer design
  • Contact page redesign
  • New Home Page Design
  • Inconsistent avatar display – comment avatars are not using BP avatars – possibly other parts of the system have this problem as well

Please feel free to send me a message with any items that I’ve missed (I’m sure there are many).

How To Guides

The initial structure of the How-To Guides has been setup and is in place.   Several of the guides however still need to be written.  All guides need to be reviewed in light of the new system platform. In some cases features have been removed (the classified ads and job board for instance). The following guides still need be written (in order of priority):

  • Forums
  • Document System
  • File Storage System

Community Page Redesign Notes

  • Event Calendar – verify backend and update accordingly
  • Forums – cleanup and simplify wording

Groups I’m Involved With

At the moment most of my time is spent in the development, testing, and roll-out of this site.  In the course of my part time teaching assignments I also work with some of the hidden groups here, mainly in the areas of writing.  The public groups which I intend to re-focus my efforts on once we get into a production mode of operation on include STEM for Young Learners and Eco-Travel.  We also plan once this site is in production to gradually split out some of the larger (in terms of what we have material for) education areas into their own sub-sites.  Already on the drawing board are ece.teachers-network.com (electrical and computer engineering), maker.teachers-network.com, english.teachers-network.com, and shop.teachers-network.com. Next on the stack of projects is a formal Teachers Network Learning Management System so that we can host classes online.

About Me

More information about me can be found on my personal website.