Your Classroom Wiki

One cool thing that you could easily do with a Instiki wiki is use it to run a wiki in your classroom, off the teacher's desktop or laptop (can you run Ruby on a Pocket PC? It'll work off your phone in a few years...). Anyhow, without bothering your school or district sys admin. Of course, you can do this with any open source wiki or weblog, but Instiki is an unusually simple and (so far) well behaved server.[by way of...Tuttle SVC]

Tom Hoffman points to this very interesting wiki and it was a snap to install. His idea of a teacher installing this on his or her classroom machine is something I plan to share with my teachers when they return to school next month.

Stanescu Family...

PortlandTribune.com | Community mourns loss of family The girls were all students at Meriwether Lewis Elementary School, a short walk from their house in Southeast Portland's Woodstock neighborhood.

This links to a nice article on how the community is dealing with the loss of 5 members of the Stanescu family. Last night we held a meeting at the school for students, parents and staff to come together and begin to deal with the loss of the Stanescu family.

Stanescu Family...

Lewis Elementary School: Letter to the Lewis Community Concerning The Stanescu Family I have hesitated to write about this but after talking with Tom Hoffman, I decided to go ahead and let people who might stumble on this weblog know about a tragedy that hit the Lewis School community this past weekend.

On Friday, July 16 five members of the Stanescu family were killed in an automobile accident in Northern California. Lewis parents, George and Daniela Stanescu along with 3 of their daughters, Jessica, Tabitha and Miriam were killed in the accident. 3 other Stanescu children were injured in the accident with Ema still in critical condition and on life support. Ema and her there sisters were all students at my school, Lewis Elementary. As you can imagine this a very sorrowful time for our community.

A fund has been set up to help support the surviving Stanescu children. Anyone wishing to donate may send checks to the Stanescu Family Fund, c/o Wells Fargo Bank, 12005 S.E. Division St., Portland, OR 97266.

Feed Splicing...

FlickrBlog Splicing gives people the ability to offer a single RSS feed which contains a chronologically ordered arrangement of their photostream from Flickr and the feed from their existing blog (so you might end up with something like blog post, blog post, photo, photo, photo, blog post, photo, blog post, photo, photo, and so on).

This is pretty slick and easy to set up. I have a new "spliced" feed on the right side of this weblog noted with the Feedburner icon. This feed is a spliced feed with content from my MT weblog and my Flickr photostream. Basically it combines both feeds into one and puts it in chronological order...

Tom Hoffman's Talk to the Brown English MAT's

More on this later, for now, here's the link.

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Tom was going to have iChat up and going with a video stream of his presentation, but it looks like the Brown firewall must be in the way... or maybe they are having him give a talk about the Internet in a room without any connectivity... Come to think of it, that one might be more likely... :-)

Cyprien's best conference moment.../Flickr

My best conference moment last year involved Hydra (now SubEthaEdit), bloggers, rendezvous and macs.
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Cyprien Lomas, who I met at the conference he references, talks about SubEthaEdit and Rendezvous. Cyprien also was at the recent BlogTalk in Vienna and has lots of great pictures up on his flickr site...

Speaking of Flickr... Flickr is a photo sharing/community tool that has all kinds of interesting features. For example it utilizes RSS all over the place, photos, comments, comment threads... all have RSS feeds in various flavors including Atom. Here is the RSS 2.0 feed for my public photostream.

The chat interface is nice and it allows for the posting of images in the conversation area and then discussion can take place around the image. Also it has a very slick hook into the XMLRPC blogging interface which allows you to make posts to your weblog and include images from right within the flickr chat area, or from any flickr gallery. It also allows for posting by email. Another nice feature is that you can tag images with terms. For example, upload an image of something, give it a tag, then it becomes associated with that group. Example, tag a public image "blue" and it becomes part of this group...

Another nice feature is the calendar view, which allows you to see a visual recored of images and when they were uploaded.

I am going to play with Flickr with some of our students and teachers. Am thinking we could use it for our publishing club photographers to share and discuss images for the student newspaper...

Convention Bloggers...

CyberJournalist.net: Convention bloggers named The Democrats have started issuing credentials to bloggers.

I guess that's all well and good, but I'm wondering if any of the delegates have weblogs? Will there be blog posts from delegates rather than just A List bloggers. Would be kind of interesting to have delegates writing about the conventions...

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

4th of July

Sparklers... a test post from flickr...

nando4th Originally uploaded by timlauer.

Another Nice Flickr Feature

Flickr, the photo sharing discussion tool, also has some very interesting features that allow for easy inclusion of photos in your weblog. One I just became aware of is Daily Zeitgeist. It is built in Flash, and displays recent photos from Flickr. I have mine set up to grab recent images from my account and display them in the box below.

var zg_nsids = '37996574045@N01';

This and other cool features of Flickr can be found the on the Flickr Blog.