Blogging

One Great Teacher...

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Mrs. Stewart's Classroom News Today I had the great honor to work with Priscilla Stewart. Priscilla is a teacher at Buckman Elementary in Portland, Oregon. She is new to using weblogs, but after just a few minutes you could tell she understood the power of being able to easily publish information about her classroom for her students and their families.

We are using Movable Type to publish her classroom blog. After playing around with the features we began to discuss the use of the blogging tool by her students. This lead us to create another blog for her students to post daily classroom updates. Using the RSS feed from this blog, we employed a JavaScript to capture the RSS feed from the student blog and have it feed into her main classroom page, so those visiting the site can see her classroom information, and also see the most recent postings from her students.

Movable Type as a Journal Tool

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Movable Type as Journal Tool Students in this beginning German class at the University of North Carolina use Movable Type to publish their journal entries. Another exciting use of weblogs in education. I have wanted to do this with our Linux Terminal Server Project schools, but rather than make them public, they would be used as learning logs for only the student and teacher to read and comment on. RSS could be used to alert the instructor of new entries. Lots of possibilities... Now if we can only convince our IT folks to install Movable Type on the LTSP boxes...

Another reference to Traci

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More About Samuel Pepys' Diary...

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Phil Gyford: Writing: An introduction to weblog terms for weblog readers Phil Gyford's Samuel Pepys' Diary, is gaining quite a few readers. (For background BBC News has a nice introduction... ) As a result, he has come up with a list of blogging terms for those new to weblogs and their conventions.

If you haven't seen Samuel Pepeys Diary, be sure to check it out. What a great way to publish historical documents. I love the comments section under each entry. Today several folks are speculating why the Thames froze over in 1660.