Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
Monday, February 19th, 2007
It was long overdue. I'd been using the very old WP 1.5.x series forever and I finally took the morning on Saturday to upgrade my blog to the shiny new 2.1 series. Wow, lots of cool new stuff here.
I love the use of AJAX in the admin interface, particularly the ...
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
A professor of mine, Dr. Scott McLeod, was apparently bitten by the blogging bug recently and has started a great new blog called Dangerously Irrelevant about educational technology leadership. This blog was long overdue because Scott is never short on opinions and he has an approachable, thought-provoking way of presenting ...
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
I haven't posted much this summer. I guess it's a combination of a new job, a good bit of travel, and a general need to take a bit of a break. As I consider getting back to it I find myself conflicted about my "beat." This blog isn't too focused ...
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
I had a great time on Thursday afternoon recording an episode of my podcast in front of a live audience.
My first guest was Sonny Portacio, geocacher and Director of Technology for the Escondido Union High School District. Sonny has been doing a ton of work with geocaching lately. He's created ...
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
I had a great time presenting at NECC on Wednesday. I captured the audio (albeit in a low-quality version) and attached my Keynote slides as an enhanced podcast. I'm also linking to a pure audio MP3 version in case your computer can't handle AAC-encoded media.
I posted the links for my ...
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
My family and I arrived in San Diego last night, and I'm busily putting the final touches on my presentations for this year's NECC. If you're interested in seeing a session that I'll be doing, check out one of the following:
Introducing the Read/Write Web: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implications, July 5, ...
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
I'm trying to decide what blogging platform to use for a small- to medium-sized project. This won't be students blogging, but staff members who I will be encouraging to blog about what's going on in the school district. (I was quite inspired by the blogging panel at NSBA that featured ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
I had the privilege of participating in a Web 2.0 panel discussion sponsored by the Digital Media Center at the U. of Minnesota recently. My fellow panelists were David Ernst from the College of Education, Shane Nackerud from the U. library, and Clancy Ratliff from the Department of Rhetoric.
Dave introduced ...
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Steve Burt has been busy. He's posted three new editions of Ed Tech Coast to Coast in the last couple weeks. In particular, we recorded something from FETC a couple weeks ago and most recently a chat with a superintendent and school board member following their blogging panel discussion at ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Here's the latest in a recent string of articles highlighting how one's online life can carry over into the very real world of work and school. From the NY Daily News, an account of how potential employers use Google as another method of checking up on job applicants. I continue ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
The Mac faithful were tuned to MacRumors and their IRC chat today for the Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld. There were a number of surprises that will be blogged about everywhere. A couple things that caught my eye were the new version of GarageBand and a new product called iWeb. ...
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Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Thanks to the StatTraq product for WordPress, it's easy to look back and see what blog visitors are reading. Here are two top 5 lists from 2005:
Top 5 podcasts:
5. Michael Searson: Pre-service teacher education
4. STP #8: A chat with the gang
3. Scott McLeod: Data-driven Decision Making
2. Comic Life: A talk ...
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