Category: blogs
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Monetizing Blogging via Amazon’s Kindle
Following the lead of Chris Duke this evening, I created an account as a publisher on Amazon’s Kindle Publishing for Blogs website and submitted “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” as an available blog. After submitting all the requisite details, I was informed: Your blog will be available on the Kindle Store in 48-72 hours.…
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WordPress plugins for a new blog
I setup a new WordPress blog today for a writing project, and used the following plug-ins. My somewhat out-of-date list of WordPress plug-ins I’m using here “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” is available on my about page. AddThis http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/ Feedburner Plugin http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78483 No Revisions http://www.hostscope.com/wordpress-plugins/norevisions-wordpress-plugin/ PhotoDropper http://www.photodropper.com/wordpress-plugin/ PodPress http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/ ReCaptcha http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/ Riffly audio video…
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Why should middle school students blog?
I left the following as a comment today on the ISTEconnects blog post, “ISTEConnects to Attend WordCamp on Your Behalf ~ We Want your Questions!” This was in response to Ann Grub’s question, “Do you think middle school students should blog? Why or why not?” I definitely think middle school students should be blogging, as…
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Using Yahoo Pipes to Create a Single-User Contribution Feed from a Team Blog
The title of this post may suggest these procedures might not be something you’ll discuss over the dinner table tonight, unless your family is a LOT geekier than mine. None the less, it’s possible you might find a wonderful use for Yahoo Pipes in the weeks ahead as I’ve done recently, and this post could…
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WordPress commenting restored thanks to phpMyAdmin table repair
A moment for joy and thanksgiving has arrived, in a very geeky sense– I was able to FIX the mySQL error which was causing comments to not work on my WordPress blog! I wrote about this last Wednesday in a “plea for help” post. Last week as I spent some time googling for answers, I…
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Using Digital Technologies and Personal Learning Networks to Enhance Learning by Clif Mims
These are my notes from Clif Mims’s keynote “Using Digital Technologies and Personal Learning Networks to Enhance Learning” at the PodStock09 conference. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I audio recorded this session and also webcasted/archived the session with Ustream. Our current economic crisis could be “the perfect storm” for educational technology, open…
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Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!
These are my notes from the presentation “Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!” Presented by – Kim Herron, Tamara Padfield, Linley Voboril from Inman Elementary School: Inman, Kansas. This was shared at the PodStock 2009 conference in Wichita, Kansas, hosted by ESSDACK. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN…
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Help Needed! WordPress commenting isn’t working (WordPress database error Duplicate entry)
Ah, these are the moments I wish I had my own IT staff. If you’re a WordPress or mySQL guru perhaps you can help me! I am running WordPress on my main blog (“Moving at the Speed of Creativity”) and the blog has stopped accepting comments for some reason, as of Monday night (April 27,…