Category: blogs
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Great podcast presos on blogging
The Bloggercon III conference was held at Stanford University on November 6, 2004, and featured top notch presentations about blogging and web 2.0. Presenters included Dave Winer, Lawrence Lessig, Scott Rosenberg, Jay Rosen, Adam Curry, and many others. IT Conversations has compiled a nice webpage and podcast RSS feed of all the conference presentations. Check…
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iWeb blog interface
I have started a new “job hunt blog” this evening using iWeb software included with iLife06. I have several reasons for starting this blog (which I posted about within it actually), but the main ones are to learn more about the capabilities of iWeb as well as document my own job hunt that is ongoing…
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Learnerblogs exceeds bandwidth
Popularity can have drawbacks and costs, especially when it comes to web 2.0 and bandwidth issues. Just tried to pull up the Learnerblogs.org page, and I was greeted with the following: Hopefully they’ll get the problem resolved soon. I have been contemplating recommending to teachers that they look at Learnerblogs or Edublogs to setup classroom…
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School staff blog
The Explorer is the Staff Newsletter for Zeiger Elementary in Puyallup, Washington. This is a great example of using web 2.0 power via blogs to help educate others about them, through directly using them. The Puyallup technology director, Glenn Malone, is having some success getting other administrators in the district to blog. I think that…
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Edifying student bloggers
Mark Ahlness’ Mighty Writers are 3rd grade students at Arbor Heights Elementary School in Seattle, Washington. I think pre-service teachers in certification courses should be required to visit classroom blogs like Mighty Writers and leave positive, supportive comments and feedback for the students. This assignment can potentially both edify the young student writers, and educate…
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Bandwidth spikes
Downloads of my podcast, and therefore the amount of my utilized ISP-allotted daily/weekly bandwidth, have really spiked up in the last few days. I have had access problems to my blog today and intermittently in the past week, and I guessed the cause was high traffic volume. It turns out my service provider (POWWEB) is…
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WordPress backup
I have successfully backed up my wordpress blog using phpMyAdmin, something I’ve needed to do for quite awhile. That process, although “point and click,” was not as simple as I would prefer. So, as a result, I downloaded and installed Scott Merrill’s free WordPress backup plug-in. It works like a champ and was a cinch…
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Free wordpress blogging options
WordPress is free, open source, and the best blogging software option I have used personally to date. Blogger is very user-friendly and quick to use, but it does not currently directly support categories (really an essential for most blogs) or separate RSS feeds for different categories. If you podcast (as I do) or might in…
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Global Voices
The motto of Harvard University’s Global Voices project is, “The world is talking. Are you listening?” Another question projects like this should prompt educators to ask is, “Are you inviting your students to participate in this global dialog?” If not, we should be. Stephanie Rieger has a link to Global Voices on her blog that…
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Einstein Endorsement
Hey, is this cool or what?! Thanks to Andrew, a Flickr contact from Bejing, for alerting me to the amazing website archive where I discovered this image tonight! This one is also potential poster-material for a K-16 classroom near you! 🙂 Go ahead, make your own version! Playing in the web 2.0 world is equivalent…