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Monthly Archives: July 2005

Blogs and Pedagogy

Sunday, July 31, 2005

James Farmer’s two blog posts about how to and how not to use blogs in education summarize this paper. His thesis is that
in order to effectively utilize blogs in an educational context, their inherent communication dynamics must be examined and pedagogical and environmental strategies and constructs used which reflect and utilize [...]

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Abundance

Friday, July 29, 2005

I’m back this week from several weeks of traveling. When I sat down to the computer this morning I found that the header for this blog that I made using a Flickr badge wasn’t displaying. It seems to never fail that something unexpected happens when I sit down to work. I think [...]

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Photos

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Tried to get a photo gallery application embedded in WordPress but was not quite able to do so as seamlessly as I hoped. The link is in the top navbar. The best I could do was to hack some of the templates, and lose the blog header when the gallery is deployed. There’s a [...]

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You Know You’re an Alaskan When…

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

You know you’re an Alaskan when you discover on July 5 that your truck’s hubs are still locked for winter driving – and you wonder if you should bother unlocking them.
I was changing an old worn tire on the truck, getting ready to go fishing. I’m taking my camera with me. The Copper [...]

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Roadmap

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Following through on an idea I got yesterday, this is a list of possible titles for education-related blog posts I would like to write:

Families and Student Achievement;
The Tyranny of Standards;
Grades and Test Scores are a Lie;
Intelligence is Overrated;
Mathematics Discourse What ARE We Talking About?;
What’s Special about Special ED?
Parents in the Schools – Teachers in [...]

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Safari and RSS

Sunday, July 3, 2005

Summer vacation has been anything but relaxing so far. Without going into detail let it suffice to say that summer coursework, new puppy, kids’ soccer, and web-related projects have kept me hopping. There’s still plenty of work left to do, and some fun to be had. Things are starting to slow down just a bit. [...]

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More than a Blog

Saturday, July 2, 2005

All files are safely back where they belong now – and copied to a safe location. The reason the site upgrade went a bit haywire is that a few weeks ago I discovered how to use the WordPress pages feature to make the blog into more of a complete website, and I created some [...]

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Borderland Broken

Friday, July 1, 2005

A hastily handled upgrade to WordPress 1.5.3 resulted in my losing my sidebar, and my static page content. By the time I realized that the wp-content folder was in the deletion queue it was too late
I managed to rescue some of it, but since I’d customized a fair bit, some [...]

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