Archive for April, 2005
Message in a Bottle
I’ve established a beachhead. It has required some some brushing out, but I think I have a pretty good landing place for the next group of colonists. I’ve done a lot of things alone before, but I’ve never colonized a realm. So it feels a bit strange to be the only occupant of Alaska, [...]
Weblogs and Wikis
Monay PM/TuesdayAM-12:30ish: It’s too late for coherent diction. I can’t really see all the way to the computer screen with both eyes open, but I want to get some record of what has been happening the last few days. I can’t possibly know right now if this will be coherent, so posting it on the [...]
First Class
I received about half the permission to publish notes back this week. All but two have the ‘Protected status’ box checked. I think I would probably check that box myself for my own kids. Not that I don’t trust them or their teachers. I think it’s a nice option for little kids. It dramatically [...]
Permission to Publish
I copied the Permission to Publish form from the school district’s website, and customized it so that it specifically addressed blogging for my fourth graders. This is what I sent home:
Permission to Publish
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Dear Parents,
Your child has the opportunity to participate in a project that will enable students to publish documents to the World Wide Web. [...]Well on Wheels
Well on Wheels
Instead of running water, you could say that ours is ‘rolling’ water. We’ve been doing this for about 10 years. The water is good, costs about a cent a gallon, and it’s cheap, if you don’t count the high gas and maintenance cost of driving that monstrous truck. And of [...]
b2evolution Comes to Town
I got the go-ahead from the people at work to have my 4th graders begin blogging on the b2evolution installation I made on the school district’s server. There are still some hurdles.
Most immediately, I have to get permissions from their parents. The school district has a strict policy regarding publication of student work and [...]Wiki Tagging
In this article Ward Cunningham discusses how category tags can be used within a wiki. This is a subject that I find most helpful as I begin to sort out the need for making decisions about information architecture and wiki development.
An example of what he means can be see on Wiki Wiki Web, Cunningham’s Wiki. [...]Learning to Wiki
I’ve been teaching myself how to wiki. It’s intersting the way links are made. You can create a link to a page that doesn’t exist. Just put [[around]] something. The word in brackets becomes a link to a page that is named whatever that word is. When you click on a link that has [...]
New Theme
WordPress has a themes feature that is fun to play with. I got tired of messing with the theme that I had installed before now because it had some invisible tables wedged into it for positioning purposes. I tried using the CSS to make it look a little bit different, but I kept running into [...]
Testing
This is testing week in Fairbanks. All of the little boys and girls are taking standardized tests. The tests they are using this year are new. Nobody has ever taken this version before. They scrapped the old tests because different companies were making the tests that kids at different grade levels were taking. So the [...]
