Category: blogs
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Talking blogs
Wow. I love the opportunities we have today, thanks to web 2.0, to learn from each other. I saw this evening some links on Will Richardson’s blog posts that said, “Listen to this podcast.” Curious, I clicked on one and was pleased to hear a reasonably human sounding computer-voice read the text of the blog…
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Monitoring the blog pulse
Technorati Mini is a simple and powerful idea. (I just love things that meet that description!) Enter a search tag and a popup window is displayed in your browser (assuming you permit pop-ups from the site if you are using a blocker) that refreshes every 60 seconds. Posts to the blogosphere matching that tag are…
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WordPress Multi-User
WordPress MU (multi-user) is now out of beta! This means it is stable enough for “public consumption!” For anyone running or considering running blogs in educational settings, this is GREAT news. The latest iteration of WordPress supports a fairly intuitive rights scheme that lets administrators run blogs with varying levels of user rights, which is…
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Presentations from Monday
As promised at Monday’s technology conference in Wichita Falls, Texas, I have posted the recorded audio files from these sessions to the web. Uncharacteristically, these are unedited versions of my presentations– I just don’t have time right now to edit, clean up, and compress these further. The presentations were/are: Safe Classroom Blogging to Improve Student…
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Positive blogging article in mainstream Seattle press!
Kudos to Mark Ahlness, David Warlick and others who were quoted several times in Saturday’s Seattle Times’ article “Teachers are reaching out to students with a new class of blogs.” This is the sort of article about web 2.0 and classroom blogs that we need to see more of in the mainstream press. The messages…
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Podcast89: Free Digital Curriculum
This podcast is a recording of a presentation on sources of FREE DIGITAL CURRICULUM for K-12 educators, shared in Edmond, Oklahoma on September 27, 2006. Some of the free digital curriculum examples I discuss and share include WikiPedia, the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, Google Earth, Google Earth Hacks, Roy: Tale of a Singing Zebra, Google News, Global Voices…
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Wiki, Blog or Moodle?
I’ve posted some thoughts about how to decide which web 2.0 tool to use over on the TechLearning blog.
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Universal (Intel Mac) version of Ecto available
Boy I love blogging from my Mac, and specifically with the reasonably priced program Ecto, MUCH better than I like using the web-interface for WordPress on a Windows XP computer. I’m now using Windows-based computers much more than I have in the past few years because of my job, but thankfully I’m still able to…
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The causes of freedom and social justice
I have just finished watching DVD #4 in the fantastic PBS series “Slavery and the Making of America” titled “Challenge of Freedom.” If we think we have things bad today in politics, we should all do a history lesson and study the period of Reconstruction following the US Civil War. As one of the commentators…
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Our need for more dialog in the face of fear
When the Columbine school shootings happened in 1999 I was teaching at Rush Elementary school in Lubbock, Texas. I remember the next day I was working with a class of first graders, and their teacher remarked to me that the students didn’t really understand where Columbine High School or Colorado was in relation to Lubbock,…