Category: blogs
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Podcast57: Think.com and Digital Social Networking
Students generally exhibit high levels of motivation to socially communicate. They like to talk with each other, and in our digital world their desire to communicate often has digital forms. Rather than simply blocking all student access to digital social networking tools, teachers and school administrators should seek powerful tools and environments which permit them…
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Blogging opens doors
Very cool. Are kids in your school just writing for their teacher?!
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OPML Sharing
Share your OPML is a free website seeking: to gather a community of subscription lists, in OPML format, and aggregate them in interesting ways. If you’re not familiar with the acronym, according to WikiPedia OPML: is an XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application,…
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Ontario Blogs “Put Up”
Ontario Blogs is: an online publishing project, coordinated by the Education Network of Ontario, where writers and readers can interact in a controlled environment. Students write articles and submit them online to the teacher for publication in the project blog. Teachers comment on the students’ writing and if necessary send it back for revision. Students…
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Advice to curb wordpress spam?
Does anyone have a favorite, free plug-in for WordPress that you’re using to block automated spam comments? The quantity of spam comments to my blog has been skyrocketing. Spam Karma 2 is doing a great job filtering it out, but I’d like to stop it from being posted at all. To do this I need…
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Great advice for student bloggers
Darren Kuropatwa posted some excellent advice for student bloggers back in February about keeping safe online, which were first posted by Bud the Teacher. These are so good I am going to cite them in full here: Students using blogs are expected to treat blogspaces as classroom spaces. Speech that is inappropriate for class is…
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iWeb and switching computers
I recently had to change my primary laptop computer because of a hard drive crash, and thankfully I was able to move and backup all my data before disaster struck. However, I neglected to make a backup of my Home folder – Library – Application Support – iWeb directory (as an archive) and therefore have…
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Comments and Customization with iWeb
iWeb is part of the iLife 06 suite of multimedia production software programs included with every new Macintosh. Back in February 2006, I shared several presentations about using iWeb at our TCEA state technology conference. (See Podcast34: Using iWeb for Blogging and Publishing for one of these presentations.) Now, thanks to the creative development work…
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Witnesses to educational truth
We need more teachers and classroom bloggers like Doug, author of Borderland. In his post “Bearing Witness” he writes: I want to shine a light on problems so that we can perhaps begin to understand them and grow from that knowledge. I want to discuss implementation, as well as reform because literacy is a doorway…