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  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Wordpress and VideoPress   4 months, 1 week ago · View

    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!

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Flickr Integration   6 months, 1 week ago · View

    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 [...]

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Backupify   6 months, 2 weeks ago · View

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

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Writing Online

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

      7 months, 3 weeks ago · View

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Chicago’s Community Gardens and Openspaces

    Click on link to see us on the map for Chicago’s Community Gardens and Openspace!
    View Chicago’s Community Gardens and Openspaces in a larger map

      10 months ago · View

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Keyboarding 101

    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 [...]

      11 months ago · View

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: The Year Starts!

    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 [...]

      12 months ago · View

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Testing Mars Edit Blog Editor

    I am testing Mars Edit blog editor.

      12 months ago · View

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Screenr : Screen Capture

    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 [...]

      1 year ago · View

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: National Writing Project Site

    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 [...]

      1 year ago · View

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Edmodo 3.0

    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 [...]

      1 year, 1 month ago · View

  • aldelgado wrote a new blog post: BuddyPress Experiment

    This is an experiment on using Worpress Mu and Buddypress to build up our Whittier School presence online.

      1 year, 1 month ago · View