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Conference Presentation Via iChat

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On Monday morning I gave a short talk in Connecticut before I went to work in Portland. Normally that would be a tough commute, but we were using iChat AV. Don Leu, an education professor at the University of Connecticut, asked me to talk about weblogs and their use in schools to a group of teachers and administrators at a statewide technology conference.

I first met Don about 7 years ago when he approached me about a book he was writing about Internet use in elementary classrooms. The book, Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times, is now in its 4th printing.

Don is one of those folks who you wished had a weblog... Gotta work on that...

Ok, Well, Blojsom Then?

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Essentially, if you've got blogging turned on your Tiger server, every user you create will get a folder inside their home folder for their blog posts, and any text file they put in there (whether manually, through a web interface or via the Atom API), will appear as a post on their blog.

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Tom very neatly explains the significance of Apple including blogging in Mac OS X Tiger server. This is exactly what I want to do at Lewis. Create accounts for a bunch of 5th graders on the server, and in the process have blogs enabled for them. I like the fact that it is based on Blosxom. That is the blogging software that Tom uses. I use it locally on my Powerbook for note taking at meetings. It is a great little application.

At Lewis this summer we are moving all our iMacs to OS X Panther. Our school district IT department is installing an X Serve. We will have logins for our 4th and 5th grade students. Am looking forward to next summer and upgrading to Tiger.

NECC Keynotes...

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NECC has three keynotes going this morning. Intel come up with an innovative approach to ensure a full house for CEO Craig Barrett... Give away stuff... As predicted, the keynote by Craig Barrett was full...

Edutopia Online Education Radio...

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Radio Show Archive "Edutopia" is a weekly Internet radio talk show from The George Lucas Educational Foundation, hosted by GLEF Executive Director Milton Chen. The one-hour talk show features key educators and students, as well as business, government, and community leaders, discussing educational innovation.

GLEF, the George Lucas Educational Foundation, provides a very rich web site of education related articles and video/audio media that helps to disseminate models of the most innovative practices in k-12 schools... They produce a weekly 1 hour radio show that features key educators and students, as well as business, government, and community leaders, discussing educational innovation. Available as an audio stream, or for download as an MP3 file. Perfect for listening to on your iPod...

BBC Content to be Made Available

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Wired News: BBC to Open Content Floodgates The British Broadcasting Corporation's Creative Archive, one of the most ambitious free digital content projects to date, is set to launch this fall with thousands of three-minute clips of nature programming. The effort could goad other organizations to share their professionally produced content with Web users.

The project, announced last year, will make thousands of audio and video clips available to the public for noncommercial viewing, sharing and editing. It will debut with natural-history programming, including clips that focus on plants, animals and birds.

This looks very interesting. A method for teachers and students to legally use source material for presentations and research reports... but at this point only for those accessing from Great Britain...

iPod as Pirate Radio Station...

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iPodlounge | All Things iPod

Tune into iPod-FM pirate radio Oregon Yesterday we reported that a columnist at engadget.com had written a how-to on creating your own pirate radio station using a modified iTrip mini. Today we noticed on the boing boing blog that a reader was actually doing it from his car with an iTrip and his iPod. "I've been running around for the past several months with this bumper sticker on my car. It's an ink-jet job and as you can see, it's getting a little faded. I figure that anyone that can read the bumper sticker-- on the I-5, at a stop light-- if intrigued could tune in and listen to whatever I'm listening to."

Have been thinking one of these would make a nice Father's Day gift...

NECC Weblog...

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Edweblogs.org: NECC 2004NECC starts next weekend and again Clarity Innovations will be sponsoring a community weblog to share information about the conference and sessions. Yesterday, Steve Burt and I spent some time working on the NECC weblog and looking for NECC related posts on Feedster.

Feedster has an interesting feature... you can do a search and then when the search is returned, you also get an RSS feed of that search... combined with a tool such as Feedroll... you can have a subject specific aggregator... I didn't know it did that... Here is the link to the RSS for a Feedster search on the terms "NECC" "New Orleans" . The post below uses Feedroll to display the RSS feed... Any posts with NECC and NEW ORLEANS should roll into the feed...