Category: blogs
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Podcast298: An Interview on Manitoba Morning Radio with Darren Kuropatwa about Numeracy, Literacy, Student Summary Blogging, Digital Learning and the K-12 Online Conference
This podcast features a recording of the January 2, 2009, live morning radio show interview in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on CJOB|68 with Darren Kuropatwa, minus the news and advertisement breaks. The conversation focused on Darren’s utilization of scribe posts by his Calculus and Pre-Calculus students at Daniel McIntyre Academy in Winnipeg, the imporance of numeracy as…
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Congrats to the 2008 EduBlog winners!
If you missed the annoucement from December 20th (as I did till this evening) be sure to check out and subscribe (if you have not already) to the 2008 EduBlog Award winners. Congrats to all! 🙂 photo credit: debaird™ Technorati Tags: edublog, award, blog, education
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Nominate for the Twitter Shorty Awards
The Shorty Awards: …honor the world’s top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you’d like until midnight December 31st. Participation is straightforward, and is done (of course) via Twitter: To nominate someone for a Shorty Award, use the form on this [THE SHORTY AWARDS] site, or send a tweet…
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Blog widgets for political transparency
Looking for ways to advocate for political transparency in your local community or state in the United States? Check out Sunlight Media Services’ free widgets. Here are a few examples. Capitol Tweets is embed code showing all recent tweets from U.S. Congressmen and Congresswomen who are life-blogging on Twitter: Capitol Words: gives you an at-a-glance…
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Restored blog access and reflections on the psychology of daily blogging
Many thanks to friends and readers who sent tweets, emails, and left voicemail messages today letting me know my blog was offline! I didn’t actually see/hear any of these messages today until this evening, and it wasn’t until about an hour ago that I was able to get on a chat line with my webhost…
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A great way to catch up on your edublog reading
It’s drawing toward the end of 2008, and that means (among many other things, of course) it’s time for the 2008 EduBlog Awards. In addition to voting for blogs in the 16 categories this year, I encourage you to read all the posts in the category “Most Influential Edublog Post 2008.” These include: The future…
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Siteground insists: Pay up now or be cut off!
Chapter 3 of my futile negotiations and requests continued with my web host, Siteground, this morning. Chapter 1 was last Thursday (“Is this web hosting extortion?”) and Saturday (“Negotiations with Siteground for alleged shared hosting account ‘abuse’ continue.”) Given no other choices, I have opted to pay up for the Standard VPS package. Instead of…
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Negotiations with Siteground for alleged shared hosting account “abuse” continue
The dialog with my current webhost, Siteground, which I explained in my Thursday post “Is this web hosting extortion?” continues today. As you can see from this screenshot of the Siteground hosting features, NO WHERE are limits on CPU cycles or server executions mentioned: I requested that Siteground technical support provide me with historical data…
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Podcast292V: Blogging – The New Conversation
This 6 minute mashup video was created by H. Songhai, an educator and blogger in Philadelphia, using some of my audio podcasts and conference presentation recordings. Among other questions, this video mashup asks and answers the question, What is the most powerful form of writing? The answer, IMHO, is hyperlinked writing. [display_podcast] Show Notes: This…
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Is this web hosting extortion?
I originally titled this post “24 hours to decide: Dedicated hosting instead of shared hosting?” but the more I have thought about this and discussed it with a few others, the more this situation seems like web hosting extortion. When I first started podcasting several years ago, I admit I had some grandiose dreams of…