Category: blogs
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Key for posting video embeds to WordPress – Disable visual editing
I figured out a mystery which had troubled me for some time: Why can I readily post embedded videos to my personal blog (this one) using MarsEdit, but when my children try to do the same thing to our family learning blog (Learning Signs) the video embed code gets stripped out? The answer, it turns…
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New Twitter Hack Resolved
Thanks to Sue Waters last night for tweeting about a new Twitter hack which resulted in some users’ accounts being compromised and sending out unauthorized Tweets. Russel Montgomery provided links via Twitter to Pete Cashmore’s post on Mashable, “How StalkDaily Opened a Gaping Hole in Twitter.” It now includes the following update: Minutes ago, Twitter…
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Who Will Save Journalism? We will!
I was going to start a “no screens” time at 10:30 pm CST this evening and read more in my latest analog book, “Presentation Zen” by Garr Reynolds. Picking up our family’s iTouch and reading a bit in Google Reader (my 21st century free digital newspaper, don’t you know) changed that, however, and I feel…
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Help make EduBloggerCon09 fantastic: Join the live conversation Saturday!
I’d like to invite you to join Steve Hargadon and I tomorrow (Saturday, April 11, 2009) to discuss issues and ideas surrounding EduBloggerCon09 and the “BarCamp” model in the Classroom 2.0 LIVE Elluminate room, at 9am Pacific / 10am Mountain / 11am Central / 12pm Eastern / 5pm GMT. Visit Classroom 2.0 Live for more…
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Lessons Learned: Webcasting and Live Blogging a School Board Meeting
Tonight was an evening of several personal “firsts:” My first Edmond Public Schools board meeting to attend as a parent, and the first school board meeting I’ve both webcast (via Ustream) and live-blogged via CoverItLive. The live blog included 83 comments from me as well as remote attendees, who numbered around 16 at one point…
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Self-hosted WordPress Blog Updates
One of the most important reasons educators and students should carefully consider blogging platforms like Class Blogmeister, Blogger, WordPress,com, and Edublogs is that blogging software provided via these services is updated / maintained for users by professionals. When you host your own WordPress blog, as I do, you’re on your own for technical support issues…
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Professional Development Opportunities Over Video via the CILC
The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) is a great resource for not only identifying and/or announcing classroom collaborative projects, but also for finding professional development providers for your school and district who present over video. I’m pleased to announce that five of my educational presentations / workshops are now being offered over video…
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Join the Digital Literacy debate – Live!
Please join me and many others in the Digital Literacy debate organized by Josie Fraser: …the Digital Literacy debate… will be taking place online, in Elluminate, on Friday 27 March 2009, at 1pm GMT [THAT’S 8 AM CST] … The purpose of the debate is to try and move forward on issues surrounding Digital Literacy.…
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Easily customizing WordPress for Mobile Users
The mobile web is huge and growing. No one creating content for the Internet today should ignore it. If you use a WordPress blog, the free WordPress Mobile 3.0 plug-in offers a seamless way to provide a customized, mobile-web friendly interface for your visitors viewing your site on an iPhone, Android-compatible phone, BlackBerry, or other…