The BloggerCon 2003 Weblog: Dave Winer reports that BloggerCon might not have Wi-Fi access... I wish I could attend this conference. I know Pat Delaney, Will Richardson and Steve Burt will be there so I'm looking forward to updates from the conference and posts from "evening" sessions...
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.
Today Sarah Lohnes points to the CTELL project site.
an on-going research effort to develop and study the use of multimedia cases of best practice instruction for pre-service education in early literacy.
I am familiar with the project and have worked with one of the principal investigators, Don Leu. I was surprised though when I visited the site and discovered the pages could only be viewed with a Microsoft browser. (click the screen shot to see what was displayed)
I can't really understand why a project such as this would limit itself to being viewed only by a certain browser, and also only on devices that Microsoft supports. This not only locks out folks who don't run Microsoft browsers (Lynix, Safari, Mozilla...) but also folks who use Palm handhelds and cell phones. More and more I view web content not on a computer but on other devices. My Nokia 3650 does a pretty good job of displaying web content. Can't understand why they would do that...
Always wanted to receive one of those big checks you see the winner at a golf tournament receive. Well this past week at the Lewis Open House, the local representative from Washington Mutual ( a savings and loan) presented the school with a donation of $1000. Finally got my Tiger Woods moment...
Also have a principal page up on the Lewis site.. http://lewiselementary.org/principal.html
I still need to work a bit on the template, but plan to just fix things as I go. For the most part it will be school information and district information. Stuff that doesn't really fit on the school home page.
Lewis Elementary School Spent some time this weekend learning about MTOtherBlog, a Moveable Type plugin that allows for the placement of MT entries from one blog into another. I worked on the Lewis Elementary web site and now incorporate entries from the music teacher's site and a photoblog on the front page of the main Lewis web site.
Another 9/11, and the Nation Mourns Again
Soon, the ceremony began, and then the names. Eddie Canillas wiped away tears as his daughter, Kristen, 12, read aloud the name of her grandfather, Anthony Luparello, a maintenance worker on the 101st floor of the south tower. Mr. Canillas said that Kristen had practiced the names all week...
Tuttle SVC: September 10, 2003 Archives Tom Hoffman, in my opinion, the hardest working man in school technology business, has some interesting comments on CMS tools and Weblog tools for use by schools. Tom is an amazing teacher. I had the very good fortune last June to to visit the high school where he works and also an elementary school where he also provides support.
MT Gathering in New York Ben and Mena Trott will be in New York on Saturday for a gathering of Movable Type and TypePad users. Maybe Joe Luft can hop on the subway and then give us a report... Speaking of MT, I have set up the Lewis Elementary web site using Movable Type and also have moved the staff bulletin from a weekly email that was sent to staff, to a MT weblog. Now as important announcements, and district edicts, come in, they are added to the Staff Bulletin Weblog by myself or the school secretary. The staff is getting comfortable with checking the site several times a day. Several teachers have expressed interest in setting up classroom sites, so hope to have that in place by the beginning of next week.
So tonight, I'm watching C-SPAN. A tape broadcast of John Kerry announcing his candidacy for President. My son, Fernando walks in the room.I tell him this man wants to be President. I ask him if he thinks he would be a good president. He says “Yes...” I ask why, He says “ Old people are good... Right? ” Who can argue with that logic... Kerry in 04!