http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/08/classroom-blogging-babysteps/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/08/classroom-blogging-babysteps/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:51:08 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/08/classroom-blogging-babysteps/ My fifth grade class will begin blogging next week. Once our New York State English Language Arts Tests are over on Wednesday, we will focus on real learning as opposed to test prep. I’m pretty satisfied that I have WordPress MU figured out well enough to get going. We will start with a class blog [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/08/classroom-blogging-babysteps/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/26/first-impressions-wordpressmu/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/26/first-impressions-wordpressmu/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:13:30 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/26/first-impressions-wordpressmu/ Our school tech committee approved student blogs on a limited basis, so I have installed WordPressMU on our school’s shared server space. WordPressMU is a multi-user blog platform based upon the popular WordPress. Hopefully this will meet our needs for blogging at our school. Like Elgg, there are no automatic installers for WordPressMU, so it [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/26/first-impressions-wordpressmu/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/post-nyscate-07-tech-committee-meeting-blogs/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/post-nyscate-07-tech-committee-meeting-blogs/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:53:08 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/post-nyscate-07-tech-committee-meeting-blogs/ I returned from the NYSCATE 2007 Conference reinvigorated with fresh ideas as to where to take my class and our school in terms of education and technology. I felt ready to renew my efforts to incorporate podcasting and wikis with my students. I had done some work with both of these in limited, halting ways [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/post-nyscate-07-tech-committee-meeting-blogs/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/11/25/nyscate-2007/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/11/25/nyscate-2007/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:58:21 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=3 I enjoyed this year’s NYSCATE (New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education) Conference last week. It was great to hear and see what other educators are doing with technology. For me, the highlight was presenting. My presentation was on using open source server software and commercial web hosting to create educational websites. [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/11/25/nyscate-2007/feed/ 0