Technology

WordPress and VideoPress

aldelgado — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:57:34 +0000

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!

Flickr Integration

aldelgado — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:18:50 +0000

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!!

Backupify

aldelgado — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:11:03 +0000

I am using backupify to back up our Escuela Whittier site and Flickr Photos. So far so good!

Writing Online

aldelgado — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:04:08 +0000

I hope to be writing and tweeting more on practice and things revolving around technology and education.

Keyboarding 101

aldelgado — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:06:33 +0000

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.

The Year Starts!

aldelgado — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:34:51 +0000

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.

Testing Mars Edit Blog Editor

aldelgado — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:22:59 +0000

I am testing Mars Edit blog editor.

Screenr : Screen Capture

aldelgado — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:13:08 +0000

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.

http://screenr.com/HAs

National Writing Project Site

aldelgado — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:13:33 +0000

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

Teaching the New Writing : Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st-Century Classroom

Edited by Anne Herrington, Kevin Hodgson, and Charles Moran (2009)

Looking forward to this book based on real practice and new literacies.

Edmodo 3.0

aldelgado — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:41:46 +0000

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.

Realtime updates – Edmodo time-line auto-refreshes
Threaded replies, replies are now underneath each post instead of sent to the top of the timeline and treated like a new post.
New caching system – Speed when clicking items is now super fast
Archive feature – ability for teachers to archive their groups forever.
Inline editing of posts and replies -we don’t send you to a separate page to edit your posts and replies now.
Spotlight feature – when someone replies to one of your posts, when you post an assignment or when a student turns in an assignment they get highlighted in the spotlight area. This should be the first thing you check when you login to Edmodo from now on.
See all posts by user by clicking their picture or name.