Entries from November 2006

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

No Ping, No Bling

I had unchecked all the ping sites when I set up this blog, so it was not indexed by any search engines. I’ve fixed that and added a few more ping sites. In a few days, things should be working better. I also installed the sitemap plugin and set that up, and I added the […]

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Staff Orientation

There must be a way to incorporate better technology into the staff orientation I attended today. It boiled down to almost 9 hours of PowerPoint presentations, with some exceptions. I think some of the material could be captured via video and updated as needed. Some of the things just don’t change that quickly while other […]

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

New Theme

I am using the PressRow theme. It makes the site look like the New York Times, I think, but it is much more readable than other themes I’ve used. There are some quirks though. I don’t like the default image handling settings which run the text right into the image. You can’t use vspace and […]

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Updating the blog

I’m trying to figure out what happened to my archives. All my posts are here but I changed to the Pressrow theme and can’t find any archives.

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Best Education Blogs

Jay Mathews at the Washington Post is looking for the best education blogs. He’s going to run a contest to find the best blogs about education. Walt Gardner, retired teacher and prolific writer of letters to the editor, is going to help him as a judge. It sounds like it will be interesting. Based on […]

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Blogger loses job for blogging on the job

The guy who posted the emails from Mark Foley to a high school student which led to Foley’s resignation from Congress and was just one in a string of Republican mess ups leading up to this week’s election is the subject of a story in the LA Times today. Lane Hudson kept his identity hidden […]

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Interactive CDs for training

Putting a series of web pages on a CD ROM to provide training is a good idea. Michael Calhoun covers the basics of doing this in TechLearning. Unfortunately, he recommends Claris HomePage for Mac users, which is an application that hasn’t been updated in more than five years, at least. It was a nice program […]

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

15 Points to a Killer Blog

Another Robin Good article — he points to Robert Scoble’s presentation, 10 Ways to a Killer Blog, but his headline says 15 points to a Killer Blog. Which is it? Actually, both are right as the title says 10 and there are actually 15 points. I think this is supposed to be an example of […]

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Robin Good on Adsense and Automated Content

Setting up a site with Adsense and RSS feeds sounds like a no effort money maker. The problem is that it doesn’t work. Robin Good explains in his entry today, AdSense Money Machine? The Problem With PLR Articles And Automatic Content Generators.
The time for littering the web with fake automated content is over. Use […]