Category: blogs
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180 iBlog postings migrated to WordPress!
Thanks to the free AgitProp software program I was able to migrate all my previous iBlog posts fairly smoothly into WordPress. I have quite a bit of reformatting to do, but at least the heavy lifting / transferring was done in an automated fashion! 🙂
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James Farmer on appropriate educational uses of blogs
James Farmer’s new article, “Blogging for Education: How you SHOULD use blogs in education” contains some excellent suggestions for teachers at all levels using or contemplating the use of blogs with students. This article/posting is a shorter summary of a lengthier piece, also worth reading, titled “Blogs @ Anywhere: High fidelity online communication.” For those…
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So now I’m reading blog postings written in Arabic?!
Free translation websites make the impossible now possible. Thanks to the Arabic to English translation website http://english.sakhr.com/ and a login ID from www.bugmenot.com, I read some posts tonight IN ARABIC from an Iraqi writing about, among other things, the rebuilding of schools in Iraq. Omar posted this message today that includes a multitude of links…
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Dangers of students blogging
Should K-12 students be blogging to non-password protected websites? Maybe not. I came across this article from the BBC this past week: “Blogging ‘a paedophile’s dream‘”. Given the fact that I teach an educational technology workshop that includes encouraging student blogging (with limits and safety considerations in mind), as well as the fact that I…
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Implications of Blogging (people are getting fired?)
This BBC news article provides some interesting food for thought when it comes to blogging. The BBC news article this morning, “Worker sacked over blog comments,” raises quite a few questions. This is not the first article I have read about people writing things in their blogs that got them in trouble (or fired) at…
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Amazing photos and worthwhile posts from Iraq
These thoughts and photos from a US soldier serving in Iraq are well worth reading and viewing. My mother brought the following site to my attention, she spends a lot of time these days keeping up with “the real news” from the war in Iraq by reading blog postings by both US military personnel as…
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Live RSS feed on my homepage, using layers, and a new homepage design
Ah, not having homework to do presents lots of time to learn fun new technological things! I have wanted to put a live feed of the latest few postings from my blog directly on my main homepage, without having to manually update it. I found the solution tonight and implemented it: www.rss-to-javascript.com. This free service…