Category: blogs
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iPhone video trimming: Fast and functional
It’s getting close to the end of the second semester of school here in North America, so among other things that means award assemblies. Today was the sixth and seventh grade award assembly at Classen SAS in Oklahoma City Public Schools, and I was able to record a short video of my son receiving his…
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iPad Sketching Conference Session Highlights
Rachel Smith’s documentary artistry at Northern Voice was spectacular. With her iPad and Auto-Sketch Pro. Wow. Via Alan Levine. I love this one too! Bring forth thy mysteries, digital storytellers! Follow Rachel Smith at http://ninmah.be/ and learn the backstory! – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad (On which hyperlinking and multi-tasking is possible but still…
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Quickly publish student writing with WordPress and iPadio (no-edit podcasts)
Helping people of any age become writers and authors is a BIG deal. In this post, I’ll explain how I used a WordPress blog last night and a free account with iPadio to publish the text of a student-created story as well as an audio recording of the student reading her story orally. It took…
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Hyperlinked sliding image banner in WordPress
I need to update the WordPress theme Karen Montgomery and I are using on our Powerful Ingredients 4 Blended Learning site, to make it easier / clearer for visitors to get information about our “Digital Magic Tricks Workshop” for educators and register directly for the June 21-22 workshop we’re planning to offer in Oklahoma City…
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An Exemplary Scribe Blog Post, Pecha Kutcha Presentation, and Screencast
My undergraduate students in “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma this semester have learned how to use a variety of web-based tools for communication and collaboration. Here are a few superb examples. Copying the “scribe post blog” idea from Darren Kuroptawa, we’ve used a Blogger site this semester as a shared learning…
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Scrape blogs: A mildly dark (and certainly irritating) side of open content licensing
The English WikiPedia defines “blog scraping” as: …the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, usually daily, searching for and copying content. This process is conducted through automated software. The software and the individuals who run the software are sometimes referred to as blog scrapers. Scraping is copying a blog that is not…
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Create a web feed for school sites which don’t provide/support RSS
My sister-in-law is a librarian in Allen ISD, in Texas, and has been updating her webpage on the school’s website with new content. I’d like to subscribe to her updates in Google Reader, but the content management system presently utilized by the district does not appear to support RSS or otherwise provide a “subscribable” web…
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iPad First Impressions: It’s Magical
In January we heard Steve Jobs proclaim that the new iPad would be a magical device. It turns out he was right! I am actually blogging this post on my iPad using the updated WordPress for iPad application. My main complaint is that copy and paste within the app does not appear to be working…
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Help needed with WordPress Header Links CSS
I have a technical WordPress question I’m hoping someone can help me solve. I want to add an additional link in my WordPress theme header to a “Dynamic Duo” page Kevin Honeycutt has created for us to share, in cross-promoting each other as professional development speakers / workshop leaders / keynoters. You can see the…
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Tweet On: Microblogging can help you be more creative
If you work with folks who question the time you spend “on the clock” perusing and contributing to social media websites / micro-blogging communities like Twitter, you might direct them to Brendan Koerner’s February 2010 article for Wired, “How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive.” Brendan writes: Studies that accuse social networks of reducing…