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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Wordpress and VideoPress

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

aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Wordpress and VideoPress 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!

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Flickr Integration

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

aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Flickr Integration 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 [...]

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Backupify

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

aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Backupify I am using backupify to back up our Escuela Whittier site and Flickr Photos. So far so good!

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Writing Online

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:04:08 +0000

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.

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

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:45:21 +0000

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

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Keyboarding 101

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:06:33 +0000

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 [...]

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: The Year Starts!

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:34:51 +0000

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 [...]

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

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:22:59 +0000

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

I am testing Mars Edit blog editor.

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Screenr : Screen Capture

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:13:08 +0000

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 [...]

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: National Writing Project Site

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:13:33 +0000

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 [...]

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: Edmodo 3.0

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:41:46 +0000

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 [...]

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aldelgado wrote a new blog post: BuddyPress Experiment

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:10:38 +0000

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.

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