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/2008/02/02/students-start-using-rss/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/02/students-start-using-rss/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:51:06 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/02/students-start-using-rss/ I was satisfied with my trial of the open-source RSS reader Rnews. While it is not perfect, it has a very simple interface that was easy enough for my students learn. I installed the program on our school shared server space and set up accounts for them. Thursday, they started populating their account with feeds [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/02/students-start-using-rss/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/28/rss-readers-for-elementary-grades/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/28/rss-readers-for-elementary-grades/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:35:43 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/28/rss-readers-for-elementary-grades/ Now that the students have blogs, I think they will soon see the benefits of using rss readers. Instead of hunting through blogs that may or may not have new content, a rss reader could deliver any new content to the reader. Unfortunately, all the web based rss readers such as pageflakes and bloglines that [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/28/rss-readers-for-elementary-grades/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/23/blogging-the-haves-and-have-nots-and-the-do-and-do-nots/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/23/blogging-the-haves-and-have-nots-and-the-do-and-do-nots/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:16:46 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/23/blogging-the-haves-and-have-nots-and-the-do-and-do-nots/ I have had the blogs set up for my students for a bit over a week. While I posted a question for the students to respond to on my class blog, I have left them to their own devices for a little while. Some have really taken to it. One student, Blue Butterfly, has made [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/23/blogging-the-haves-and-have-nots-and-the-do-and-do-nots/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/16/blogging-shift-from-technology-to-pedagogy/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/16/blogging-shift-from-technology-to-pedagogy/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:38:56 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/16/blogging-shift-from-technology-to-pedagogy/ My students and I are finding our way through WordPressMU (WPMU). I have worked through security, configuration, and administrative work flow. The kids post and comment. Now we focus more on learning. Students customized their sites using themes, widgets, and blogroll. I set them to contributor so the posts would be moderated before appearing. Comments [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/16/blogging-shift-from-technology-to-pedagogy/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/11/students-begin-blogging/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/11/students-begin-blogging/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:58:43 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/11/students-begin-blogging/ My students began blogging today. As mentioned earlier, we are taking baby steps, but baby has taken several steps already. There were a few obstacles and unexpected little glitches, but went very well. The kids are incredibly excited. To begin, I had to create an account for each child. As a security measure, registration was [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/11/students-begin-blogging/feed/ 0 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