Archive for the ‘School Communications’ Category
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
I helped out with an Apple-sponsored podcasting presentation that we hosted at our high school today. Our local Apple system engineer showed a great application that I had never seen. According to the maker's Web site, ProfCast:
ProfCast is the ideal tool for recording and publishing your live Keynote or PowerPoint ...
Posted in Podcasting and iPod, School Communications | 5 Comments »
Friday, July 15th, 2005
The first group at the Summer Institute is talking about ways to do online collaboration. Has anyone really tried this in the wild? Our tech department at work has used a wiki with great success for online collaboration. (We're using MediaWiki, the engine behind Wikipedia.) It's not real-time, but we've ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
I always learn at least as much in my conference conversations as I do at the sessions themselves. At TNT I spoke with Craig Nansen about some of the things he's been doing in Minot, ND. I also met Darin King, Tech Coordinator in Grand Forks. Both Craig and Darin ...
Posted in IT Infrastructure, Professional Development, School Communications | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 26th, 2005
File enclosures have been a part of RSS since version 2.0, but have only recently come to everyone's attention with the emergence of podcasting. Most people now associate RSS attachments with MP3 files, but there's no reason to restrict the attachments to audio files. For example, Fraser Speirs recently coined ...
Posted in School Communications, Web technology | 2 Comments »
Saturday, January 29th, 2005
I usually recommend that Web designers use lynx to get an idea of how well their site will work for visitors who use screen readers. As a text-only browser, lynx quickly exposes overly complicated markup, images without alt tags, and other basic Web accessibility faux pas. Lynx is installed by ...
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