Alan Levine's Photoblog Online Workshop

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Well I think it went well. You just are not 100% sure doing an online presentation who is snoring at the other end. But we had some good discussion and some folks finally popped some images to a Conference PhotoBlog-- oops, I forgot the context... [by way of cogdogblog]

Alan Levine talks of his experiences doing an online photoblog workshop... He also points to Robert Burget's experiences using Buzznet in a community college class... see his experiences blogged as Testing the Waters and his shared Buzznet Gallery for his students' work, ART 177 Side Show

Classroom Weblogs...

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This week on the back of the Lewis Elementary newsletter we published a short update from each classroom teacher, and from our support teachers. These classroom notes are designed to give families a quick update of upcoming events, curriculum activities and topical information about our classrooms. The way we accomplished this is that we set up a community weblog using Moveable Type and had each teacher write a short piece about upcoming events for the coming week. We then edited the index page for the community blog and set it up so that each teacher's most recent post was listed on that page. Then we just copied and pasted the content into a Word template for publication. The interesting part of this is we did this because we wanted to easily collect the content in one place and as a result we now have a community weblog for our classrooms. Next we plan to create individual pages based on category tags in Moveable Type. This will allow each teacher to have a very simple web page with their weekly notes in the center and other content flowing into the sidebars.

Lewis Calendar Using PHP iCalendar

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PHP iCalendar

PHP iCalendar is a php-based iCal file parser. Its based on v2.0 of the IETF spec. It displays iCal files in a nice logical, clean manner with day, week, month, and year navigation, printer view, RSS-enabled, and searchable. It supports 12 languages, is fully theme-able, and has complete timezone support.

We are using this on the Lewis Elementary site to share our school calendar. Our school secretary is using the calendar tool in Mozilla to keep track of school events. The iCal file that is created is published to the calendar directory on the server and the pages are created by PHP iCalendar. It also creates RSS files in daily, weekly and monthly format. Using the weekly RSS feed, we are also able to automatically post events for the current week on the main web page.

Personal Broadcasting: Commuting Thoughts

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WATCH this video

Here's my thoughts recorded on the new Nokia 7610 loaned to me by Christian Lindholm (THANKS!). It's a 6MB video in 3GP format - you'll need the latest version of Quicktime to view it. [Russell Beattie Notebook]

Russell Beattie posts from a new Nokia 7610. A Quicktime video of Russell driving to work and discussing phone cameras and moblogging. This new cameraphone from Nokia looks pretty nice. The video quality is really pretty amazing.