Category: blogs
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Inspired by Angela Maiers #blc10 presentation: Writing for Real
Today I listened to Angela Maiers‘ fantastic BLC 2010 presentation, “Writing for Real,” thanks to Bob and Zoe Sprankle’s podcast version. What an incredible collection of ideas focused on writing, literacy, and learning! According to Angela, there are three basic rules to writing we all need to understand and follow, to cultivate good writers: Writers…
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Passion-based learning in action: Brian Crosby at TEDxDenverEd
Do you consider yourself a passionate person? What are the things about which you are passionate? Are you passionate about kids and helping kids learn? Are you passionate about opening up new vistas of experiences and understanding for others which – absent your intervention – they might never experience? Are you passionate about creating moments…
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Alan November’s website was hacked
If this can happen to Alan November, it can happen to any of us using WordPress as a blogging platform on a self-hosted website. Vulnerabilities like this are not limited to WordPress, however, they can happen to any website. YouTube was hacked on July 4th this year, and Justin Bieber’s videos seemed to get the…
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Why email is NOT good enough for communication today
Email is an example of “one to one” (or one to a defined many) communication. When you send an email, you have to specify the recipients in the TO, CC, and BCC fields of your message. While your email message COULD be forwarded on to others (resulting in a greater distribution) and along the line…
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Quickstart guides for Posterous and iPadio
Tomorrow our initial three days of the “Oklahoma Creativity Institute” for fifty K-12 teachers starts in Oklahoma City. I’m VERY enthused to be co-facilitating this with Tammy Parks, thanks to the hard work of an entire team including staff at Oklahoma A+ Schools. I’ve created two new handouts for the Institute which you’re free to…
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Separate Feedburner chicklets for blog posts and podcasts
Last week I received a question about the two different “feed count chicklets” I have in the right sidebar of my blog. One of these shows blog subscribers, and the other shows podcast subscribers. The question I received was, “How did you create those?” The short answer is I used Feedburner (now owned by Google…
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A-Ha Moments: Voice (iConnect iLearn 2010 Opening Keynote) – First Prezi presentation
I creatively experimented with my opening keynote for the 2010 iConnect iLearn Conference today in Colby, Kansas. My topic was “A-Ha Moments: Voice.” I created my first Prezi presentation to share these thoughts, and also solicited the ideas of conference participants on the conference Ning. A-Ha Moments: Voice on Prezi I learned a LOT creating…
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Quickblogging Options: Comparing tumblr and posterous
One of the most important things we can do as learners, and specifically as educational leaders in our communities, is to SHARE OUR IDEAS. “Quick blogs” are a category of website which is “kind of” a hybrid between a blog, a microblog, and an email service. As far as I know, tumblr and posterous are the two…
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How We’re Reinventing the Blog by Sachin Agarwal (Posterous co-founder)
These are my notes from a webinar today hosted by Creative Oklahoma, with Posterous co-founder Sachin Agarwal. Sachin is a4agarwal on Twitter, and sachin.posterous.com on his own site! Sachin talked about how his startup is seeking to reinvent blogs and web publishing in general. Posterous currently has 8 employees. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN…