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Monthly Archives: June 2005

Category Inactive Users

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Earlier this month I had the rare opportunity to introduce a group of education professionals to the wiki. I wanted to see if some might want to use TrueNorth to help develop a professional resource and generate support for classroom innovations. The reaction I got was interesting – and is [...]

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Wiki Add

Sunday, June 26, 2005

A plugin for this Wordpress that will post selected content on TrueNorth is now up and running. This is a very cool integration of Wordpress and Wikka Wiki two applications that are now “talking to each other.” I want to use the wiki as a repository for some things that I can also write about [...]

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Test Post

Sunday, June 26, 2005

The Wikiadd plugin displays only short posts to the blog in the wiki pages, but apparently chokes on longer texts. I have made numerous posts to the wiki from the blog, but the only ones to successfully display on the wiki are all short. Also, the wiki page is not updated when the blog is [...]

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Wiki Add

Sunday, June 26, 2005

MURPHY’S LAW: When you test something over and over again and think you have it all set for deployment, it will inexplicably FAIL when you finally declare it operational.
After numerous tests this afternoon, the plugin was working perfectly. Now it is not doing anything. No errors, no nothing. CRAP!
Update: See Test Post
Update2:(Jan. 8, 2006) [...]

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Why

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

How often are we asked questions that we wish we’d have answered differently? On the way home from a presentation I gave to some teachers in a graduate-level Reading program I thought about how I’d stumbled over the answer to a simple question posed by one of the teachers. I was in the truck [...]

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Broken Puppy

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Broken Puppy

The vet said that she’d seen it before. Old dogs discipline the young ones and sometimes they don’t know their own strength. So our 13 week old husky has a fractured jaw! Bosco is pushing his luck these days. We thought he made a good playmate for Maya, and he [...]

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Spam, Comments, and Predation

Tuesday, June 7, 2005

When I set up my students’ blogs I configured them to send me an email whenever a comment was posted. That turned out to be a handy function. To begin with, I didn’t realize how much kids would use the comment feature. Some of them went comment-crazy. I had several teachable moments regarding how to [...]

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Beyond Comprehension

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

I attended a memorial service on Monday for the son of a woman who I’ve known for over 20 years. She and I both have adult children who played together when they were in pre-school. We have younger children born in second marriages. We worked together in our first teaching jobs. We live in [...]

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