Category: blogs
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2006 Edublog Awards
Two educational blogs and blogging / professional development projects with which I’m involved have been nominated for the 2006 Edublog Awards. The educational Blogger community has nominated the K12 Online Conference blog for this year’s International Edublog Awards in the category of ‘Most Influential Post, Resource or Presentation’! The nomination of the K12 Online Conference…
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Intermediate/Advanced Topics in Podcasting
I co-taught a new workshop Friday via videoconference for teachers here in Edmond Public Schools (Oklahoma) and teachers at a distance in Rockwall ISD (Texas) titled “Intermediate/Advanced Topics in Podcasting.” Vicki Allen facilitated the group in Rockwall, which included over 30 teachers, administrators and support personnel in the district. We had just four of us…
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No feed = no blog
Kathy Dunlap, one of the participants in my digital storytelling workshop this evening, directed me to Frank Baker’s website Media Literacy Clearinghouse: critical thinking about media messages. The site definitely has a wealth of resources related to media literacy. I applaud the goal of the site, stated on the “Math In the Media” page as:…
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Reflections on Ewan’s keynote on Professional development
Well, I am currently riding the red-eye flight from Honolulu to Dallas, and have slept a good bit of the time. I now find myself awake, however, and looking at the clocks it appears it is 5:34 am US Central time, and 1:34 am Hawaii time. We’ve been in the air almost five hours, and…
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New spamfighting method
I have no idea why, but in the last 2 days my blog has been besieged by a ton of comment spams that I suspect are from a robot program– the name of each comment spam message poster has been “Hi There.” I have been looking at a bunch of Captcha plug-ins for WordPress, as…
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Blog spam problems
For some reason a bunch of blog spams started showing up as approved comments yesterday– I have temporarily required a login for commenting– and will hopefully be updating to the latest version of WordPress which I hope will help. From time to time (but rarely) some offensive comments have gotten through. This is quite an…
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Web 2.0 digital pioneers
Frieda Foxworth and Ron Bosch’s class website Global Horizons reveals that they and their 5th grade students are engaged in a variety of projects and classroom activities using web 2.0 tools. The site includes links to their class Blogmeister site which features student writing, their class activities blog (on EduBlogs), and their class blog maintained…
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Daylight Savings Time and WordPress
Well, we had a time change where I live in North America over the weekend, and this means a slight adjustment is needed to my WordPress blog. From the dashboard of WordPress, click on OPTIONS. Then adjust the UTC time difference– in my case this switched from -5 to -6, for US Central time. Technorati…
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Podcasts of today’s presentations
I recorded my three presentations today in Plano, Texas, at the Region 10/11 TCEA Technology Conference. The sessions were: Safe Digital Social Networking Engaging Digital Natives with Web 2.0 Tools Digital Music Creation: Engage, Inspire, Have Fun! I posted these links to a new page on my workshop curriculum site, “Teach Digital,” on a page…
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Pitcairn Islands ClustrMap Mystery
We have a mystery on our hands, and I’m hoping you can help me solve it. As you probably know if you’ve been reading my blog for long, I am wholly captivated by ClustrMaps and the global nature of web 2.0 conversations which Internet access enables and tools like ClustrMaps reveal. From time to time…