Friday, April 17th, 2009

BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge #11!

We’re getting down to crunch time. The big prizes will be announced next week, but for now, intrinsic motivation will have to do! For today’s challenge, you’ll need to create your own blog, using the site Posterous.com. Now, before you click back to the Cartoon Network site just yet, hear me out for a second.
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Monday, February 9th, 2009

Blog Via Email with Posterous

When I first read about the blogging site Posterous, I will admit that I was not overly excited. The site allows users to create blog posts by simply sending email messages to post@posterous.com (Try it–the site will automatically create a page for you with your first email.). Certainly easy enough, but not particularly exciting. After [...]

Friday, January 16th, 2009

New: Threaded Comments!

I just activated a new plugin that will better facilitate our conversations by creating threaded comments. This means you can reply to comments left by other users, and they will list them underneath the original replies. Hopefully, this will be yet another way to make our conversations more engaging and powerful. Thanks to the folks [...]

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

New Address

Just wanted to make everyone aware that the blog can now be accessed via the original URL or at my new address, http://mossfreestone.com. I wanted something a bit simpler and easier to remember–hope I’ve accomplished that!

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Friday, July 4th, 2008

Students Talk About Blogging

I finally was successful at uploading a video of some interviews I conducted this spring with students who published their writing to a class blog this year. In just six months, the students’ blog had over 1,000 visitors from six continents! What an effective way to motivate our students to write! The blog also includes [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

5 Easy Ways to Dip Your Toes in the Web 2.0 Water

For any educators out there who like the idea of Web 2.0 and recognize its importance, but are too intimidated or otherwise reluctant to dive right in, I offer the following list of 5 things to try first. I think these tools will give you an idea of how simple it is to create online [...]