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Wow I wish I could share this with you. Because of the red tape involved with putting the students ‘out there’ on the web, we’ve decided to get the whole blog thing going in a smaller, more secure package. We have a seventh grade class and an eighth grade class who each have […]

Anne Davis on EduBlog Insights has a post that really resonates with me. She says:
Now I’m a real advocate of using weblogs with students but I wish I could effectively express how writing on your own weblog and being willing to put your voice out there can make a difference for you. It […]

An interesting piece of software was released yesterday. It’s called Delicious Library, and it’s essentially a program to catalogue your media assets. It will keep track of your CD’s, DVD’s, Books and Video Games. There’s four ways to put an item into the system. You can type in the name and […]

Today I saw another fantastic example of weblogs being used in an elementary school. M&M Online Magazine is a club of 6th grade students who are writing about different topics including school, society and the topics that are important to them.
I’ve heard people argue against weblogs by saying that they don’t serve any educational […]

Someone asked me the other day what’s such a big deal bout blogs. If the administration is nervous, why not just use something else to get teachers on the web? The reality is, it’s not just about weblogs. It’s about giving people a voice.
I remember when I got my first […]

Tonight I avoided steak for sizzle, went for glitter not gold and avoided content entirely. But I did learn some valuable new tools. Since I’m back on pMachine rather than Manila, I can’t just plug in themes anymore. Instead, I decided to teach myself a little bit about CSS. It’s MUCH […]

Well, I’m back at Dembo.org again, which was woefully neglected anway. The reality is, I don’t think I’ll be able to keep my own professional blog on the school’s site for a number of reasons, primary among them that is that it may still be a while before the school is ready blogging. […]

Today, at 9:00 AM, parents will be able to begin registering for their conferences online.  It always makes for a hectic week for me, but on the whole it is an incredible improvement over the traditional process.  Years ago, before we moved to this system, parents would run around from sheet to sheet trying to […]

I had no idea Flickr was actually that cool.  I like the easy access, and how simple it is to add photos to a Flickr account and have them appear as a sidebar on your blog.  But the notes feature and tags feature add an entirely new dimension to it.  Gotta think more about this […]

Unfortunately, I had just finished a fairly lengthy post and was gathering up the links, when I accidently clicked away from the page and lost it all :(  Same thing happened to Rena a few days ago.  Moral of the story?  Type it up in a word processor and then paste it in.  Or just […]