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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 MoreWe 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 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 MoreFor 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 MoreThe 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 MoreThis 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 MoreAs 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 MoreOver 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 MoreI 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 MoreThe 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.
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