The Google Spreadsheet interface is pretty spartan, and since it is saved to my Google account, I can not only share it with the individual teachers, I can also share the sheets with our reading support teachers. I plan to build some community behind the spreadsheets using WordPress so that we can discuss the results we are seeing and make and note plans for individual students based on the results we are seeing.

This morning I went to Google Spreadsheets and see that Google has changed the interface a bit combining the spreadsheet function and the Writely word processing function into something called Google Docs.

Log on, Learn to Play (Without Reading a Note):As informal online learning democratizes the musical experience, it also challenges the norms of musical education and raises questions about creativity itself.Ths Sunday Times has a report on the changing face of music instruction and how people interested in learning an to play music are turning to online and electronic sources of instruction.

His stories of the game and of the Negro Leagues introduced many to the story of the Negro Leagues and to that period in our history. It is sad that the special Baseball Hall of Fame Veteran's committee that recently considered additional inductees to the Hall overlooked his contributions to the game both on the field and off.

Code Search crawls and indexes publicly hosted archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip) and CVS and Subversion repositories, making them searchable in one place.... One example included WordPress config files that were left in open directories complete with logins and passwords exposed.

Tom Hoffman points to the new interface for Google Reader, Google's answer for Bloglines.... I normally use NetNewsWire as an RSS feed reader but also have my OPML file in Bloglines and also Google Reader.

>Google Earth is one of those tools that has countless applications in education. Below is another good example.Declan Butler, an editor for Nature Magazine, has come across some GIS data related to world poverty that has been published by Columbia University.

Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing: An art teacher was suspended after one of her fifth-grade students saw nude art in the Dallas Museum of Art. Sometimes you read something in the paper and you just shake your head. If there is to be blame for a field trip to an art museum, (as crazy as that sounds...)

The process for adding sites is cumbersome, and you can't add any descriptive information about the sites that you are pointing people to.... We also take advantage of Firefox and GreaseMonkey and have built the del.icio.us tag tool into the browser toolbar to make it easy for teachers to tag the sites they want.

The Network is a collection of 6 Oregon based teacher education programs that are working to integrate technology into university instruction and pre-service teaching. I am again teaching a class at Pacific University and Dr.Roblyer was the keynote speaker at an annual conferene that Pacific holds in conjuction with other members of the Oregon Technology in Education Network.

One composer is featured each week and one selected work of that composer is repeated each day over the school's PA system, or on a portable stereo.... Each week our music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry writes a short web post for the staff and community with more information about each featured composer.

We are into our second full week of school at Lewis Elementary and we have our annual Open House this coming Thursday.... It is working well and provides a nice visual variety each time you visit the page.

Barcelona’s New Uniforms Have a Logo and a Message - New York Times:Barcelona was wearing its newest finery yesterday as it began defense of its European Champions League title against visiting Levski Sofia of Bulgaria. The jerseys had the familiar blue and red vertical stripes, but a new addition was the name splashed across the front, Unicef.

For example in my old Moveable Type installation, the following RSS files were produced:...atom.xml...index.xml...index.rdfWordPress produces files dynamically and the following addresses return RSS feeds:http://tim.lauer.name/wp-rss.phphttp://tim.lauer.name/wp-rss2.phphttp://tim.lauer.name/wp-rdf.phphttp://tim.lauer.name/wp-atom.phpSo when I made the move anyone who had subscribed from my old site would not know I had switched platforms.... Files such as index.xml, index.rdf, rss.xml, rss2.xml, atom.xml, *.xml are directed to the appropriate WordPress handler so that folks pointing to myold feed address get the new feed content.

The theme I am using takes advantage of the plugin to display my most recent images on my page, and the Photo link in the header displays an index page with my most recent images along with my photo sets.... I haven't quite figured it out yet, but I believe I can also edit photo titles, descriptions and tags from within my WordPress weblog.

As part of my move to WordPress and the moving of the Lewis Elementary web sites I have set up shop at a new hosting service. In the transition between my old service and my new service I am experiencing a few little hiccups.

Over at Using Wiki in Education, Stewart Mader has a post that points to WikiHow and an article, How to Take Perfect Lecture Notes.... I like the idea of having students create a record of their work/notes and also the collaborative nature of a wiki allows for others to add and expand on the resource.

I was able to import all of my old posts too.... Am looking forward to playing around with the many plug-ins and other tools that hook into the WordPress environment.