Blogging

EdBlogger SF-03

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From the SFUSD press release about EdBlogger SF-03

Galileo staff and students, U.C. Berkeley Bay Area Writing Project, KCSOS Web Team, and teachers from kindergarten through university levels from across the country.

This event will be taking place over the weekend at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology. I'll be taking part in this, and will be working with several others to facilitate the second roundtable, Blogging in the classroom, lab, library and school

This should be an interesting gathering. An opportunity to reconnect with some folks I have already met, and others whose work I have been following through their weblogs.

From the small world department. I got an email yesterday from a Portland colleague (who has not been following any of the weblogs in education conversations) whose mother has been raving about her school's new librarian. Turns out her mom works at Galileo, and the said librarian is EdBlogger SF-03 organizer Pat Delaney.

Comment Spam

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Ben Hammersley's Book of Blog this week talks about comment spam in weblogs. He points to two Moveable Type plug-in solutions. James Seng's MT Captcha

The idea is pretty simple: Display an image with a Security Code and demand the user to enter a Security Code manually before allowing posting to go through.

Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist allows for the creation of spam blacklists and allows for the sharing of these blacklists.

Typepad Official Launch...

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Typepage Official Launch Today Sixapart announced the official launch of Typepad.

New features in the system include the ability to map your own domain name to your TypePad site so that your site would appear at example.com if you own that domain name, in addition to the example.typepad.com address that is included with your TypePad account. There's also more bandwidth for users at the Plus and Pro levels, giving users 3 and 5 gigs per month in data transfer, respectively. Plus, all levels now have the ability to password protect any weblog or photo album for privacy.

Also the folks behind Typepad and Movable Type were featured on CNN tonight. They have a video clip on their web site.

Chicago Uncommon

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Chicago Uncommon is a great photography site that uses Movable Type as its engine.

Chicago Uncommon is the product of one woman's interests dramatically colliding. Passion for photography & web design crossed with an adoration of the Windy City developed into a massive collection of Chicagoland photography displayed categorically and shared with you.

Lots of great images of Chicago. Can be searched and viewed by category and date. Categories include neighborhoods, and she has some very nice images of Wrigley Field and the surrounding Wrigleyville neighborhood. Prints are available for purchase. Tonight I bought one she took of the Wrigley Field scoreboard.

On a technical note, she uses MTPaginate, a Movable Type plugin that makes it possible to break down a category/date page into several pages. For an example follow this link to her Wrigleyville category. I'm using MT for our Lewis Elementary Photo Gallery and this should come in very handy once I find some time to play with the layout.

Weblogs Article from Technology and Learning

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> Education Web Logs > August 1, 2003" href="http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4DSZ2KPTOVAGUQSNDBCSKHSCJUMEIJVN?articleID=12803462">Techlearning > > Education Web Logs > August 1, 2003

Thanks to free blog publishing software that masks the programming code underlying Web Log creation, virtually anyone can "blog" or practice "blogging," that is, create a Web Log and update it with daily postings.