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 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.
Read MoreAfter 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: 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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