Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing: An art teacher was suspended after one of her fifth-grade students saw nude art in the Dallas Museum of Art. Sometimes you read something in the paper and you just shake your head. If there is to be blame for a field trip to an art museum, (as crazy as that sounds...)
Read MoreThe process for adding sites is cumbersome, and you can't add any descriptive information about the sites that you are pointing people to.... We also take advantage of Firefox and GreaseMonkey and have built the del.icio.us tag tool into the browser toolbar to make it easy for teachers to tag the sites they want.
Read MoreThe Network is a collection of 6 Oregon based teacher education programs that are working to integrate technology into university instruction and pre-service teaching. I am again teaching a class at Pacific University and Dr.Roblyer was the keynote speaker at an annual conferene that Pacific holds in conjuction with other members of the Oregon Technology in Education Network.
Read MoreOne composer is featured each week and one selected work of that composer is repeated each day over the school's PA system, or on a portable stereo.... Each week our music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry writes a short web post for the staff and community with more information about each featured composer.
Read MoreWe are into our second full week of school at Lewis Elementary and we have our annual Open House this coming Thursday.... It is working well and provides a nice visual variety each time you visit the page.
Read MoreBarcelona’s New Uniforms Have a Logo and a Message - New York Times:Barcelona was wearing its newest finery yesterday as it began defense of its European Champions League title against visiting Levski Sofia of Bulgaria. The jerseys had the familiar blue and red vertical stripes, but a new addition was the name splashed across the front, Unicef.
Read MoreLast week Scott McLeod posted a series of FAQ type questions for why a school administrator might want to share information with his or her community through a weblog.... Information sharing and progress monitoringMarketing and public relationsCommunity building and customer relationsBranding and creating evangelistsThought leadership and advocacyToday he compiled the information into a handy PDF file that can easily be diseminated (i.e: slid under a principal's door...
Read MoreFor example in my old Moveable Type installation, the following RSS files were produced:...atom.xml...index.xml...index.rdfWordPress produces files dynamically and the following addresses return RSS feeds:http://tim.lauer.name/wp-rss.phphttp://tim.lauer.name/wp-rss2.phphttp://tim.lauer.name/wp-rdf.phphttp://tim.lauer.name/wp-atom.phpSo when I made the move anyone who had subscribed from my old site would not know I had switched platforms.... Files such as index.xml, index.rdf, rss.xml, rss2.xml, atom.xml, *.xml are directed to the appropriate WordPress handler so that folks pointing to myold feed address get the new feed content.
Read MoreThe theme I am using takes advantage of the plugin to display my most recent images on my page, and the Photo link in the header displays an index page with my most recent images along with my photo sets.... I haven't quite figured it out yet, but I believe I can also edit photo titles, descriptions and tags from within my WordPress weblog.
Read MoreThis year we have him full time and in addition to his music classes, instrumental band, recorder club, marimba group and tech/literacy he will be adding two technology/literacy periods a week for our 3rd grade students, and a piano lab section for our 2nd grade students.... They were very excited about the program and several of our teachers have asked for an afterschool session so they can also learn about the program too.As this school year begins, I am hoping to be a bit more faithful in updating this weblog with information about what the teachers and students at Lewis are up to.
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