Category: blogs
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WordPress 3.01 Export Problems
Warning: This is a geeky WordPress call for help! Anyone have suggestions for how to successfully export posts from WordPress 3.01? This feature isn’t working as advertised for me. I’m wanting to export just posts in 1 category so I can import feeds into BookBrewer. I can’t use just my site feed, even for the…
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Welcome to the golden age of writing and publishing
Maybe I’ll become an analog/atomic/paper-based published author sooner than I thought, and maybe you will too. Borders has partnered with Bookbrewer, which lets bloggers turn RSS feeds into ebooks and now printed books with relative ease… and relatively little up front cash: Less than $100 if you don’t want to own your ISBN, and $200…
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Online Content Can Be Persistent (even when people try to take it offline)
Text, links and media posted online can be persistent. Even when you WANT to remove something posted online from later public scrutiny, content can “live on” for a variety of reasons. Vicki Davis’ post today, “Facebook Photos: Your Delete Doesn’t Mean “Delete”” is a reminder of this in the social networking sphere. In this post…
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WordPress Site Caching with Amazon S3 & CloudFront
If you use WordPress as a content management system (CMS) on your website, it can be helpful to install a “caching” plugin which serves saved/cached webpages to visitors instead of making dynamic requests to the mySQL database connected to your site every time a page is visited. Once you’ve published a page or updated it,…
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Tom Barrett on Blogging and Inspiring Student Learning #micon
These are my notes from Tom Barrett‘s presentation from England to educators in Memphis, Tennessee, USA attending the 1 Oct 2010 Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence’s fall conference. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Blogging is one of these technologies that is SO powerful – a really simple way for students to connect…
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Great student project examples, lesson ideas and links integrating media #learning2cn
Today our team of cohort learning facilitators for the Learning 2.010 conference in Shanghai met and planned our activities for the next couple of days. I’m enthused to be working with Carol Jordan in the “Visual and Digital Literacy” cohort at the conference. Carol teaches Chemistry and “Theory of Knowledge” at the Shanghai American School.…
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Day 1 experiences with a class blog on 21classes
This semester for my undergraduate “Computers in the Classroom” course I’ve setup a class blog on the website 21classes. Since the free version is limited to just 10 students, and I have 24 in my section, I went ahead and paid the $9 per month for the upgraded version. I like how the site is…
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The importance of VOICE and empowering others to share
These were my comments this evening on Tim Holt‘s re-blogged post, “Not Invited to the Buffet: Opinion.” I’m much more optimistic. A lot of what I hear you saying resonates with me under the concept of “voice.” We need to empower more people to share their voices, share their perspectives, share their dreams. There is…
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Your unique, non-corporate voice MATTERS
Good thoughts from Kalle Lasn: If we, as a society, lose our voice completely, and corporations start doing all the talking, then we’ll be utterly lost. To some degree, this has already happened. Our ability to envision a future collectively has already been severely compromised. Yet another reason to become a storychaser. H/T to @creativetallis…