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.
Read MoreGoogle Code Search
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.
Read MoreGoogle Reader
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.
Read MoreMaps of Hunger and Poverty in Google Earth
>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.
Read MoreNYTimes: Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing
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...)
Read MorePortaPortal
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.
Read MoreOTEN Conference
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.
Read MoreMusic Listening Program at Lewis
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.
Read MoreLewis Update
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.
Read MoreBarcelona’s New Uniforms Have a Logo and a Message - New York Times
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.
Read MoreWhy blog as an administrator? From Scott McLeod
Last week Scott McLeod posted a series of FAQ type questions for why a school administrator might want to share information with his or her community through a weblog.... Information sharing and progress monitoringMarketing and public relationsCommunity building and customer relationsBranding and creating evangelistsThought leadership and advocacyToday he compiled the information into a handy PDF file that can easily be diseminated (i.e: slid under a principal's door...
Read MoreMore WordPress: Feed Director Plugin
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.
Read MoreFlickr WordPress Integration with Falbum
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.
Read MoreSchool Starts...
This year we have him full time and in addition to his music classes, instrumental band, recorder club, marimba group and tech/literacy he will be adding two technology/literacy periods a week for our 3rd grade students, and a piano lab section for our 2nd grade students.... They were very excited about the program and several of our teachers have asked for an afterschool session so they can also learn about the program too.As this school year begins, I am hoping to be a bit more faithful in updating this weblog with information about what the teachers and students at Lewis are up to.
Read MoreDomain Changing Issues
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.
Read MoreHow to Take Perfect Lecture Notes - WikiHow
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.
Read MoreMigrated to WordPress
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.
Read MoreMoving to Drupal
The student blogs in Drupal will be designed so that the left sidebar will host an aggregator that will pull in the last two assignments from each of the teachers and post them on the sidebar. (see graphic) When this feature is enabled in Drupal each of the aggregated posts also has a little button next to it which show up when a student is logged in. When the student clicks the button, the teacher assignment blog post is captured and quoted in a new student blog post.
Read MorePresentation Zen
After a very long week of school district meetings, with miles of PowerPoint presentations, I always find it refreshing to take a look at Garr Reynolds' Presentation Zen weblog.... Ricks discusses the use/abuse of PowerPoint as a briefing tool and how print outs of PowerPoint slides have started to be used instead of printed documentation, or in this case instead of documented orders.
Read MoreO'Reilly Radar > Blackboard E-Learning Patent
O'Reilly Radar > Blackboard E-Learning Patent: Tim O'Reilly talks about the Blackboard patent and the response from the education community. He notes how Wikipedia is being used to document the history/prior art of virtual learning environments.
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