I borrowed a copy of Blog Design Solutions at the new Temecula Public Library today. It goes into quite a bit of technical detail on blogs. In particular, they cover 4 blogging platforms — Moveable Type, Expression Engine, WordPress, and Textpattern — in depth, showing you how they work and how to modify them. There […]
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 […]
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.
I have been using MarsEdit with my other weblog - http://weblogs.education.ucr.edu/breilly — and it has worked fine for short entries. The writing features are a little primitive, but good enough most of the time. I’m trying out Ecto here because I couldn’t get MarsEdit to set up properly with Word Press. So far, Ecto looks […]
Journler is a nice application for the Mac. It is designed for journals, as the name implies — actually, I thought the name was “journier” which is French for something, I think. Journler has a blogging feature, which is handy, but limited. You can post to a site, but you can’t edit the post once […]
Here are some resources related to digital storytelling from today’s presentation.
Getting Started
To download Photo Story 3
Download Picasa 2 (photo management & editing program)
Using Photo Story 3 (PDF)
Beginner’s Guide to Photo Story
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Integrating Digital Storytelling in your classroom
Center for Digital Storytelling
Sources of Free Music
FreePlay Music
PodSafe Audio
Free Clip Art & Images
Barry’s Clip Art Server
Pics4Learning
Discovery […]
Just type your stuff in and click Publish and it’s done. Faster and it has a nicer interface than the web-based Word Press screen.
The new 7-series BMW cars have a few new features I thought were useful. First, the new night vision video camera screen is placed in middle of the dashboard, and it can scan the street for pedesrtians up to 1,000 feet ahead of you. I hope to see no more dead rats on the road, […]
Here are some resources you may find useful related to podcasting:
Elementary School Podcasts
Jamestown Elementary School, Arlington, Virginia
Willowdale Elementary School, Omaha, Nebraska
Room 208, Wells, Maine
Radio Sandaig, Sandaig Primary School, Glasgow, Scotland
Barrett Elementary School, Arlington, Virginia
More about Podcasting in Schools
KidCast - Podcasting in the Classroom
Education Podcast Network
Articles about Podcasting
NY Times: Students and Teachers, From K to 12, […]
I just updated my pictures site to Gallery 2.0 — http://reillyville.com/pictures — it has a nicer interface and some additional features. One new feature I don’t like is the square thumbnails. It cuts off the sides of some of my soccer photos and makes them look like pictures of grass. There must be a place […]
Stephen Johnson’s commentary, Hillary vs. the Xbox, makes a number of good points about the benefits of playing video games (and one of the drawbacks — lack of exercise). Regarding the harmful effects of violent games, he points out the following:
I’d like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility has […]
A few days ago it was over 100 degrees and there was a very brief power glitch which caused 3 computers here to shut off. The two Macs restarted with no problem, but the Dell has been shutting off as it starts up over the past couple of days. It worked fine for about 5 […]
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Combining Google Maps and Flickr to create a memory map is an interesting idea. It’s pretty easy to do. It would be nice to have a way to get a larger map and to have more elaborate notes, maybe with links to […]
I’m doing a Digital Storytelling workshop for parents at the local school next Monday at 9 AM. We may have 3 participants, which is a start. We’ll see what we can do. My goal is to get a few parents to participate in taking pictures and making digital stories for the teachers. I have been […]
I remember Cliff Stoll when he was just the hyper guy at BMUG meetings in Berkeley. Since he became an authority on the proper role of technology in schools, I’ve found his commentaries to be a little repetitive. In yesterday’s LA Times, his op-ed piece — “Computers in class are lousy teachers” — some good […]
Memory maps on Flickr are an interesting use of the comment feature paired with satellite images (most seem to come from Google Maps). A nice way to memorialize a trip or someplace you’ve lived. It also seems like a great opportunity to connect geotags with the maps to make them even more interactive. Instead of […]
Uploaded a few themes but I’m missing how to modify the home page.
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