Apr 25
On Friday, I decided to place school video on WordPress.Com blog called whittiermedia. In addition, I added the premium feature called Videopress. VideoPress enables easy upload of large video shorts and no charges on bandwith use.
http://whittiermedia.wordpress.com/
So far so good!
Mar 01
Al's Journal Flickr, technology, Whittier School, Wordpress No Comments
A flickr pro account offers unlimited uploads of photos. Flickr also offers an easy way to blog photos onto a wordpress site. The last fwo days, I blogged two photos onto our escuelawhittier site. In addition, I added a way to post sets of photos from flickr into a wordpress post via Flickr-digest plugin. Check out the whittierschool.org site for two examples. Nice!!
Feb 20
Al's Journal, Web 2.0 Technology No Comments
I am using backupify to back up our Escuela Whittier site and Flickr Photos. So far so good!
Jan 11
I hope to be writing and tweeting more on practice and things revolving around technology and education.
Oct 07
Al's Journal keyboarding No Comments
This year, our staff began the process of mapping out our writing curriculum. One of the collective decisions was for our elementary students to begin the process of learning how to keyboard. So far so good. Looking at the students learn proper hand placement and posture , I remember my first steps on learning to play the piano. It is about process and ongoing practice between projects. Flashbacks of drills came back to me. The digital natives are working at it.
Sep 09
Al's Journal class, digital divide, technology No Comments
Technology Class
Today is the first day of classes. New third graders meet me for the first time as a technologist. There I am, surveying my new students on their access to technology at home and cluing them in to the new Chicago Public Schools Acceptable Use Policy. A good day overall. About 40 percent of the students in this third grade class have access to a computer at home. Thanks to Maestro Orlando for taking this photo.
Aug 21
Site News, Web 2.0 Technology No Comments
Yesterday, I was working with the new Screenr screen capture web application. I like it because it is simple and fairly easy. Oh, it is free. Click on the link to see my first screenr. I learned to use the pause button so as not to rush myself. I also had to play with the resize option to get it just right as I went through the log in procedure. Will do another one today.
Aug 16
I always visit the National Writing Project Website from time to time because the resources on the site for reading online or for download are very good. It is what I call classroom centered. I ordered the book announced on their site
Edited by Anne Herrington, Kevin Hodgson, and Charles Moran (2009)
Looking forward to this book based on real practice and new literacies.
Aug 05
Web 2.0 Technology Edmodo, Technology Integration, Web 2.0 No Comments
Edmodo
Last Friday, as the programmers for Edmodo were updating their great education centered service Edmodo, they streamed live from one of their backyards and anwered questions from the public. We used Edmodo in our middle school as a way for students groups to share resources to build a presentation on the African Neur Tribe. We look forward to using the newest version this Fall.
From Edmodo Blog site.
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