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.

Edublogger Gathering at NECC

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Edweblogs: NECC 2003: Edublogger Gathering at NECC Just a reminder about the Edublogger Gathering at NECC. While I've seen a few posts refer to this as an Intel event, I want to clarify that this is an event for folks interested in weblogs in educations. While Intel and Clarity-Innovations have provided funds for the event to take place, they both are doing so to facilitate discussion and dialog. It is not a vendor event. We were just lucky enough to have them help with expenses. If anyone has any questions about the event, please feel free to contact me.

Hydra...

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Hydra

Wouldn't it be great to edit the same document, live, in realtime, together with everyone in your group?

This collaborative note taking application was used extensively at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference. It can take advantage of Zero Configuration networking so even without an IP connection, participants can collaborate on note taking. I'll have a copy running on my laptop. If you are at NECC, and use Mac OS X, download a copy and see if you see me. We can trade notes... :-)

necc.edweblogs.org

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NECC 2003 - EdWeblogs.org I've been working on a collaborative weblog for use during the National Education Computing Conference taking place in Seattle next week. In addition to the weblog, there will also be a edublogger gathering. taking place Monday, June 30. Intel and Clarity Innovations have graciously provided funds to pay for a meeting room and for an internet connection to the room. I'm hoping for an environment similar to what I witnessed at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference that took place in April. People coming together, learning from each other, and sharing the good work they are doing.

As Will Richardson mentioned today, the great thing about events such as NECC is that you have an opportunity to connect with people who you admire and to learn from them. That is what I am anticipating to take place Monday night and throughout the conference. If you are in Seattle on Monday, be sure to look us up.

Blogshop: Weblog Workshop

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MLX Item #843 Alan Levine of Maricopa Learning Exchange has developed an

online workshop on "blogging" (hence "blogshop") was designed to introduce faculty to the world of weblogs and to provide them basic steps for creating their own blog using MovableType.

Follow the link to the blogshop. The entries are a great outline for anyone interested in doing a workshop on Movable Type. In this entry:An Idea:Blogfolios, he discusses using weblogs as a porfolio tool.

One of the primary reasons is the blog platform is one that is generally geared toward personal reflection AND is chronologically organized, so one could develop it over time and benchmark growth. Blogs as we have seen, can include any sort of electronic file as an artifact. And the comment features allow feedback from the outside world.

[ by way of...Anne Davis: EduBlog Insights]

Private Directories with Movable Type

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This past week was a good example of why I like weblogs. Will Richardson started a discussion about student publishing that was picked up by serveral other folks. With comments and trackback the conversation took off. Greg Ritter over at Ten Reason's Why has listed a nice chronology of the discussion. This morning Matt Jadud wrote to me to suggest...

The fastest way to hide your content on the webserver (password protect it, etc.) will be to do it via an .htaccess file... (assuming you're running Apache)

I have been able to have MT save the alternate index file in the seperate directory, now will look into what Matt has suggested. Over the weekend I'll work to set up a demo...

New Weblog Tools: Expressions and Rantelop

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My-ExpressionsExpressions! is a hosted media blogging system that makes it easy for anyone to create and maintain their very own photo or media blog. It has been designed and developed by fellow photographers, artists and bloggers to meet your specific needs. [by way of... Ben Hammersley.com]

Hammersley also points to a new blogging tool - Rantelope a standards-compliant weblogging and content management tool written in the object oriented scripting language, python.

We intend to combine the best features of Movable Type™, Blogger™, Radio Userland, and Blosxom (as well as our own ideas!) into a single, flexible system that's easy for users and developers alike.

Blog Space: Public Storage for...

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Wired 11.06: Mind Share

We've lived so long under the notion of the Web as a space of connected documents, it seems almost unthinkable that it could be organized any other way. But it could just as easily be assembled around a different axis: not pages but minds.

Steven Johnson discusses weblogs and how they are changing how people think of the web. What happens when you start seeing the Web as a matrix of minds, not just documents? [by way of...[alterego]]