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Monthly Archives: April 2005

Student Blogs: Security Backfires

Saturday, April 30, 2005

It is Saturday AM and I am cleaning up some ot my student blog posts from the last couple of days. I am slightly annoyed at a couple of things that I have resolved I will do differently next time around. I often say that one of the great things about teaching is that there [...]

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Wikisource

Friday, April 29, 2005

I was messing with the Alaska wiki. Rosie created a great logo for the site. I thought I’d tidy up the top-level categories and create a single users category rather than two categories – Alaskans and visitors – and the site went down. The whole wikicities site went down. It was the second time today [...]

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Back to (lamron)

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

I think I found the login to comment culprit. What a way to spend my lunch time! Oh well. When I thought back to the spam attack I remembered that I had been a little bit hyper about trying to filter that stuff out. I found the control that I used to do that; the [...]

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Sorry ’bout That

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

The simple theme that I was using ignored settings for comments on this blog, requiring respondents to login to comment. That wasn’t my intention. I’ve returned to the former template, which has limitations that I dislike, but which are not a burden to readers. I’ll be doing some more work on the design when I [...]

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Wikicitiies is Complicated

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

I’m glad that I got involved with the Wikicity project. But it’s different than working on a small, intimate site like the commweb wiki. I’ve had some contact with the sysops from the BIG WIKI this week. Just a reminder that I’m not there all by myself like I thought. A few members from the [...]

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Attitude Update

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to work with Wikka Wikki, and it hasn’t been easy. I think I’ve got something that isn’t too messed up right now. I couldn’t have said that a few hours ago though. It’s not what I’d call pretty. But then, it’s a wiki, and plain brown wrappers [...]

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Mission Creep

Sunday, April 24, 2005

A funny thing happened on my way to the wiki… One of my problems is that I have way too many good ideas, and I try to follow up on too many of them at once. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, necessarily, but I have lots of work to do and I keep [...]

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Rules for Bloggers

Saturday, April 23, 2005

This list was inpired by a similar list made by students on Bud the Teacher’s blog: No addresses, emails, or phone numbers Don’t put your first and last name in your blog. Don’t say the names of your friends or family members. Don’t tell people where you are. Always be polite. Delete bad comments. Comments [...]

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Beginning to Blog

Saturday, April 23, 2005

My new 4th-grade bloggers are having a good time. They come in each morning and a few of them go around and make sure that all of the computers are up and pointed at the blogging page. The rest of them sit down with the portable keyboards. Good thing I set up the blog application [...]

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Project Proposal

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

My proposal is to continue working on the two projects that I have already begun: I’m going to develop the student weblog project that I have going with my class. I am curious to explore ways to scale the project so that it can be more accessible to larger groups than one class at a [...]

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