http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/02/is-open-source-too-difficult/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/02/is-open-source-too-difficult/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:58:52 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=771 I recently joined Steve Hargadon’s K-12 Open Source Community Ning site. After clicking through resources, related pages, and links, I made the following post on the site: Okay. We have an open source community on Ning. I go to to the wiki and it is Wikispaces. I click on resources and I am delivered to [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/02/is-open-source-too-difficult/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/26/why-not-run-your-own-school-web-20-sites/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/26/why-not-run-your-own-school-web-20-sites/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:23:44 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/26/why-not-run-your-own-school-web-20-sites/ As I have begun to immerse myself in Web 2.0 for education, I have been struck by the prevalence of using “free” hosted services such as Flickr, YouTube, Ning, and other such sites. I don’t have anything against them for individual use, but I do have concerns about using such services with students–particularly elementary grade [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/26/why-not-run-your-own-school-web-20-sites/feed/ 5 http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/23/elgg-installation-and-first-impressions/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/23/elgg-installation-and-first-impressions/#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:26:23 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/23/elgg-installation-and-first-impressions/ I just installed Elgg, the open source social networking platform, on our school’s shared server space. I really cannot speak to the feature set as of yet. This pertains to the nuts and bolts of installing, configuring, and customizing the site. To begin with, automatic installation is not available through cpanel/fantastico, so a manual installation [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/23/elgg-installation-and-first-impressions/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/18/content-for-the-school-cms/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/18/content-for-the-school-cms/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:33:18 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/18/content-for-the-school-cms/ Fall 2006, we launched our new school website wellscsd.com using the Content Management System Joomla as the cornerstone. I had spent the summer trudging through the ins and outs of its configuration and customization. As with any new project I was excited and energized pouring endless hours adding content once school started. I wanted to [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/18/content-for-the-school-cms/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/10/ning-in-education/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/10/ning-in-education/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:10:34 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/10/ning-in-education/ NYSCATE created a social networking space on Ning for the 2007 conference. About 140 conference attendees have signed up and there has been some discussion of the conference and educational technology. I did a little poking around the Ning site in general and I have found some other social networks that I have since joined. [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/10/ning-in-education/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/08/post-nyscate-07-tech-committee-meeting-social-networking-software/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/08/post-nyscate-07-tech-committee-meeting-social-networking-software/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:05:16 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/08/post-nyscate-07-tech-committee-meeting-social-networking-software/ When I brought up the idea of using Social Networking Software for our school, the first reaction was, “Huh?” After I described it as being related to MySpace, one committee member shot me a disdainful look and said, “Why would you want to do THAT?” I explained that it is a tool for collaboration and [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/08/post-nyscate-07-tech-committee-meeting-social-networking-software/feed/ 2