Category: blogs
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Will Richardson’s OTA09 Breakout – RSS: Connecting Ideas and Knowledge
These are my notes from Will Richardson’s first breakout session at OTA 2009 on February 10, 2009, in Oklahoma City, titled “RSS: Connecting Ideas and Knowledge.” MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Showing how he can add tags to different blog posts he follows in Google Reader – separating tags with commas –…
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Reflections on home content filtering and OpenDNS after a year of use
Do you use content filtering on your home network? (This free PollEverywhere survey will permit 30 people to vote on this question.) Create your own sms poll at Poll Everywhere I’ve written in the past about how draconian the content filters are in most of our Oklahoma public schools relative to countries with fewer legal…
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Feedburner stats drop after Google account merge
Last night I logged into Feedburner and heeded the site’s recommendation to “update” my account by merging it to use the standard Google authentication scheme. I probably should have done more background reading first. Back in September, Alex Chitu described some of the problems others have had with the Google-Feedburner marriage. This evening I glanced…
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Student Storychasers in Washington DC this week
I’ve just shared the post “Colorado students blog inauguration experiences” on the ISTEconnects blog, which includes some background about the fantastic “When History Happens” project affiliated with the larger “Teaching with Primary Sources – Colorado” initiative. The U.S. Library of Congress is a partner in this collaboration. I’m thrilled this initiative has started in Oklahoma…
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Watch and Read Citizen Journalist Reports from the Inauguration Tuesday
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, will be a historic day in the history of my nation. Although we have our share of shortcomings and faults, the United States of America continues to provide a good example for the world in periodically demonstrating the capability of a large and powerful nation to peacefully transfer power from one…
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ISTEconnects Blog – The Conversations Begin
A new blogging opportunity has come my way, and it’s a big one. I’m both honored and humbled to be formally leading ISTE’s blogging project leading up to the summer NECC 2009 conference in Washington D.C. via the newly unveiled ISTEconnects.org blog. My initial posts include: Welcome to ISTEconnects! Follow ISTEconnects on Twitter NECC Ning…
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Wanted: PhotoDropper Macintosh Application
I dearly love the free Photo Dropper plugin for WordPress. Although I compose almost all my blog posts offline in MarsEdit, I often use a temporary post on a different WordPress blog just so I can use Photo Dropper to readily find Creative Commons Flickr images. Photo Dropper provides resized as well as properly attributed…
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Eric Langhorst demonstrates the power of Google Videoconferencing in a US history classroom
Eric Langhorst, an 8th Grade US History teacher in Liberty, Missouri, and the 2007/2008 Missouri State Teacher of the Year, is the author of one of my favorite educational podcasts. Last month, Eric posted a great podcast about his use of Google Videoconferencing (a relatively new feature of Google Chat in GMail) to bring a…
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Resurrecting old conference notes before the days of blogging
This past holiday I’ve undertaken the formidable but necessary tasks of backing up all my laptop hard drive documents, archiving old computer files I’ve continued to keep on my laptop (even though there is a 0.00001% chance I’ll ever actually need those files) as well as cleaning up closets and storage cabinets around our house…