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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

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  • Akismet spam delete all problem fixed

    Yeah Ryan! The WordPress Akismet problem I blogged about on August 25th has been resolved. Before: After: What a relief! It is disheartening to see that our K-12 Online Conference blog attracted over 3000 blog spam comments in just 5 days this past week. Previously we had been running version 2.2 of WordPress along with…

  • Live tweeting back to school night

    Like many other parents around the United States this fall, my wife and I dutifully attended “back to school night” at our local public elementary school this evening. Our two oldest children are now in 5th and 3rd grades. This was a difficult experience for several reasons. I want to preface this post by noting…

  • Can’t delete Akismet spam comments in latest WordPress

    I’ve held my breath and crossed my fingers this evening updating the K-12 Online Conference blog from WordPress version 2.2 to the latest version 2.6.1. Everything seems to have gone smoothly (dare I say that) except when I try to delete identified Akismet spam comments I get the following error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for…

  • Helping young people prepare for IT related careers

    I’ve been sorting, digitizing, filing and discarding handouts and brochures from conference events I’ve collected the past few months, and ran across a “Talking Points” handout from the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) titled, “Why should young women consider a career in Information Technology?” The handout itself is available as a printable…

  • Discussing avatar and profile picture propriety with students

    Last year in our statewide Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling project, we had a “teachable moment” arise concerning student profile pictures and avatars. According to Wiktionary, an avatar in a computing context is: A digital representation of a person or being. The situation in our COV project last spring involved a high school student who…

  • Fix for Podpress and WordPress 2.6 compatibility issue

    Thanks to James Lewin for his post “Plug-In Fixes PodPress Problem With WordPress 2.6” which alerted me to “The No Revisions WordPress Plugin.” I can personally confirm that this plug-in DOES fix PodPress functionality in WordPress 2.6. Technorati Tags: wordpress, podpress, blog, podcast, podcasting, plugin, bug, fix

  • WordPress 2.6 up and running

    What a relief! For the past few months I’ve been running WordPress 2.5 on three of the four WordPress blogs my family and I currently use (Learning Signs, Eyes Right and Talking Science) but I’ve held off upgrading my main Speed of Creativity blog because I’ve been burned before with WordPress upgrades. They SHOULD go…

  • How can our school set up a team blog for teachers?

    I received a question via email from Tammy Parks in Howe, Oklahoma, recently, who just returned from BLC08 eager to setup a team blog for teachers at her school. Her question is: Our district would like to set-up a teacher blog site for each teacher to post a daily classroom summary. Initially, we would like…

  • Fish4Info, Mike Schmoker, Robert Marzo, and School Change

    I was delighted to learn about Fish4Info this evening: a next generation library portal that seeks to make the library catalog a socially engaging destination by integrating web 2.0 technology with the catalog. From book reviews, to forums, comments and tags; fish4info makes the library website an interactive social community. Created in Drupal and available…

  • Podcast260: EduBloggerCon 2008, Intellectual Property and Recording: A Conversation with Elaine Roberts of Pearson

    At EduBloggerCon 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, on June 28th, some controversy arose regarding the presence of videographers hired by Pearson Education. Steve Hargadon, who was the primary organizer of EduBloggerCon, gave permission to Pearson to attend and videotape many of the sessions pending permission from the presenters and speakers themselves. Today I had an…