Educational WeblogsDisruptive Technology Resource for Educators using Weblogs, Blogware, Collaborative tools, RSS & Podcasting, web services and digital tools at home, school, university and community.::: Structured Blogging :::- April 10, 2006 A new Structured Blog Site that supports Movable Type and WordPress systems with plugins. Why From website: Using these plugins makes it easy to create, edit, and maintain different kinds of posts. structured blogging wordpress Structured Blogging menu for Wordpress It's very similar to the default publishing form in blog software like Wordpress or MT, except that the structure will...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/_structured_blo.html Chalksite: gradebooks, assignments, messaging and a personal website just for teachers- April 10, 2006 A Web 2.0 webservice that is for teachers, students and parents. Just looking at the gui, reminds of basecamp that we use at my school as in intranet for administration, teachers and some student project. This seems to be the first online web service of this type for schools! I signed up to a free account for my morning technology...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/chalksite_grade.html Lycos-Qumana blog editor and blogging tools- April 9, 2006 Through Lycos, Windows and Macintosh users can get Qumana's weblog editor for free. In addition, you can get Lektora, Qumana's RSS for free as well. Qumana's desktop application reminds me of Userland's Radio. One advantage of desktop blog editors is that you can work offline and save your work on your hard drive. Link: Lycos-Qumana blog editor and blogging tools....http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/lycosqumana_blo.html GIS for History- April 9, 2006 A GIS for History website. Get a peek at a site still in development. Dr. Joshua Rodinsky, of the UIC School Education, is leading this effort. There is data from the Great Migration online. We have worked with Joshua in the past and two of our 6th grade teachers are co-authors on one paper being presented at the AERA Convention...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/gis_for_history.html High school essay competition: How listening to a story inspired me to work for peace (storyteller-and-listener)- April 9, 2006 An essay contest for HS Students. Great theme! Pass it on! Link: High school essay competition: How listening to a story inspired me to work for peace (storyteller-and-listener). (Educators and parents: Please be alert to essays your students are writing that address this competition's focus on storytelling and peace.) The Storyteller and the Listener Online is launching its first essay...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/high_school_ess.html This is a reFeed feed EdTechLab- April 8, 2006 Since I am now on vacation, I can play a little bit with some online tools. Here is a reblog feed I am working on using refeed. The more sites will appear on the opml blogroll as I publish the posts. So there are a bunch not showing right now. I have another just made from edblogging teachers. I experimented...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/this_is_a_refee.html eSchool News online - Spread the word: 65 percent Solution: Campaign is a sham- April 6, 2006 Great article on the shameful '65-percent Solution for public schools. Nora Carr dissects the Sound Bite' campaign of the right wing. Toward the end of the article, she tells her reader how they can fight back against the public school bashers. Start by posting your reaction and a link to the article on your blog! Pass it on! Link: eSchool...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/eschool_news_on.html Opera Community: Free blog and photo hosting- April 4, 2006 Free Blog and photo hosting by Opera.com. The folks who brought you the opera browser, have an offer you may accept, Free hosting. Link: Opera Community. Welcome to Opera Community guy A free community site for everyone. With 300 MB of free space you can keep a blog and share photos and files. Sign up now...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/opera_community.html Blog Thing - OSX blog WordPress Editor- April 4, 2006 Simple WordPress Blog editor for OSX users. Donationware Link: Automagic Software Pty Ltd. Blog Thing PantherTiger Blog Thing is a simple blogging application for the non-technical person (Grandma). It contains just enough features to allow the person with a single blog to make posts containing different fonts, coloured text and images. If you can write an email you can now...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/blog_thing_osx_.html iWeb Enhancer (version 1.0)- April 2, 2006 If you use Apple's new iWeb web site building software, you may have felt shortchanged by the product. While Apple provides some very good looking templates, there was no easy way to add your own html or scripts. iWeb Enhancer seems to address that need to customize one's iWeb built site. I hope to give it a work out at...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/04/iweb_enhancer_v.html |