Watching the moon
at midnight
solitary, mid-sky
I knew myself completely,
no part left out.
-- Izumi Shikibu, translation by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
Monday, July 26, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
about blogging
http://morethingsonastick.pbworks.com/The-25-Basic-Styles-of-Blogging
http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/04/09/twenty-usability-tips-for-your-blog-%E2%80%94-condensed-from-dozens-of-bloggers-experiences/
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97416
favicons
http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2008/04/favicons-made-easy.html
SnapShots
http://www.snap.com/snapshots.php
http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/04/09/twenty-usability-tips-for-your-blog-%E2%80%94-condensed-from-dozens-of-bloggers-experiences/
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97416
favicons
http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2008/04/favicons-made-easy.html
SnapShots
http://www.snap.com/snapshots.php
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Monday, December 21, 2009
more Wiki notes
Useful questions in evaluating the Wiki for you:
How many users are you anticipating? 5-6
What OperatingSystem(s) would you like it to run on?
Will it be a project wiki or for fun? both, hopefully
What features do you want? want to avoid? need ability to have video
Is there already a wiki serving your topic? (see PublicWikiSites) NO
. Create simple Web pages that family, friends can edit together
· Post homeworks, assignments, project works and study materials from anywhere / anytime
· Maintain online schedules and calendar for students to track project / assignment deadlines
· Host pictures, slide shows, photo galleries, video clips of school or classroom events
· Encourage parents' participation in activities of classroom and keep updated on events of classroom
· Showcase the positive happenings in a classroom or school in your website
An Access Control List features gives you fine-grained permissioning control. You can set up lists of users (perhaps in groups or roles) who are allowed to access to certain parts of your wiki, for operations such as viewing, editing, creating new pages, etc.
Note on handling wiki vandals
There are some kinds of vandals who are new to the wiki concept, and are responding by seeing if they can get away with adding obscenities. This is a natural reaction to wiki technology (by people who are perhaps a little childish) In these cases it's a good idea to just revert their edits manually, and try to rehabilitate them. The hope is that they will quickly realise the technology is robust to that kind of thing, and that it's more fun to make good contributions.
Evaluating Wikis for Project
Netcipia – support: participation.netcipia.net; ; preview; Email notification; Rev diffs; Conflict Resolution; Internal Comments; Section Editing; Blog
Springnote – no ads; Support/tutor: http://www.springnote.com/en/tour/create; Change summary; preview; Email notification; Rev diffs; Section Editing; NO Themes & Skins; Forum; Blog ; 2G; Wiki download
Wetpaint – host blocking; Support: http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/; Change summary; Preview; Email notification; comment-threaded; Rev diffs; Conflict Resolution; Page Redirects; Page Templates; Forum ; Backup to html
Wikispaces – Support: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction; Change summary ; Preview; Email notification; Comment –discustion; Rev diffs; Conflict Resolution; Page Redirects; Section Editing; Page Templates; Forum
Zoho Wiki – No ads, Can blacklist; Mailing list: wiki.zoho.com; Support: forums.zohowiki.com; Email notification; Rev diffs; Page Templates ; 50Mb; backup your entire site as a zip file and save in your local drive for your personal use.
From http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/%40Wiki%2BBrainKeeper%2BBusinessWiki%2BCentralDesktop%2BClearWiki%2BConfluence%2BCospire%2BEditMe%2BGeniusWiki%2BGroupswiki%2BLuminotes%2BMindTouch%2BNetcipia%2Bnexdo%2BPBwiki%2BSamePage%2BSpringnote%2BSwirrl%2BWagn%2BWetpaint%2BWikispaces%2BZoho-Wiki
Springnote – no ads; Support/tutor: http://www.springnote.com/en/tour/create; Change summary; preview; Email notification; Rev diffs; Section Editing; NO Themes & Skins; Forum; Blog ; 2G; Wiki download
Wetpaint – host blocking; Support: http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/; Change summary; Preview; Email notification; comment-threaded; Rev diffs; Conflict Resolution; Page Redirects; Page Templates; Forum ; Backup to html
Wikispaces – Support: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction; Change summary ; Preview; Email notification; Comment –discustion; Rev diffs; Conflict Resolution; Page Redirects; Section Editing; Page Templates; Forum
Zoho Wiki – No ads, Can blacklist; Mailing list: wiki.zoho.com; Support: forums.zohowiki.com; Email notification; Rev diffs; Page Templates ; 50Mb; backup your entire site as a zip file and save in your local drive for your personal use.
From http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/%40Wiki%2BBrainKeeper%2BBusinessWiki%2BCentralDesktop%2BClearWiki%2BConfluence%2BCospire%2BEditMe%2BGeniusWiki%2BGroupswiki%2BLuminotes%2BMindTouch%2BNetcipia%2Bnexdo%2BPBwiki%2BSamePage%2BSpringnote%2BSwirrl%2BWagn%2BWetpaint%2BWikispaces%2BZoho-Wiki
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Google's driving me crazy
It's true, my favorite Web entity is going to send me to the crazy farm (where they grow crazy stuff, I guess). I try to sign in to my blog and it tells me I'm doing it wrong. I clear cache. I restart Camino. I try again and get to my Dashboard, further than before. I "View Blog," and have to sign in again, at which point we start the cycle again. And ain't it fun.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
NOTES FOR WIKI
From neatoday magazine: "Turning the Page ," byTim Walker
...used Ning.com to create a class-only, social media group called Verona Lifestyles (studying Romeo and Juliet)
"It's about initiating higher levels of engagement," says Seale, "and making the learning more self-directed and self-motivated." "Let's face it," she says, "being literate today means more than reading words on a printed page and writing an essay."
...being literate also means using critical thinking skills to analyze, critique and evaluate information - essential skills in an information-abundant society.
Central to this new literacy landscape is a highly participatory culture. "The ability to learn from and collaborate with others around the world," Fisch says, "is an amazing development."
Helping teachers adapt to a more interconnected world is one of the goals of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a national group of education, business, and not-for-profit leaders that promotes integrating content mastery with critical thinking and advancing classroom use of technology.
...help students develop critical thinking skills in order to find credible information...
It's part of digital literacy, which Wikipedia defines as "the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology."
When beginning research projects, they provide a list of ten Web sites they want to use for information, ...teachers help students evaluate their sources.
...look for an author, recent dates, and extensions like .edu, .gov, or .org.
...encourages students to think about why it's meaningful [to the world]. It's not enough to know facts...students need to be problem solvers.
"Ultimately, we have a responsibility to teach our students how to communicate well, to prepare them of the future."
Instead, her students take "To Kill A Mockingbird" to the blogosphere and discuss the novel with a ninth-grade English class in IL, led by a teacher Seale met via Twitter. She also plans to have her students use Flip video cameras to record each other actions out different parts of the novel as they explore character motivation and perspective.
More and more educators, however, are discovering that is precisely digital media's limitless possibilities for collaboration, sharing, and communication that can captivate students. Thanks to user-friendly,
Web-based publication technologies, young people may be writing more than ever, for friends, family, and peers across the US and even around the world.
...creating for and sharing with someone other than the teacher.
...harness their students' enthusiasm and help them develop their raw skills.
"Kids have the passion, the technical know-how. and the creativity," says Hogue, "bur they need educators to teach them how to use digital media constructively and responsibly."
[Bill Blass says] "Most kids live in the digital world, but beyond the actual tools involved, their knowledge of how to make it work for them in the long run is pretty superficial. I know I can make these technologies help them communicate better and prepare them for life after school. That's the power of the teacher."
...used Ning.com to create a class-only, social media group called Verona Lifestyles (studying Romeo and Juliet)
"It's about initiating higher levels of engagement," says Seale, "and making the learning more self-directed and self-motivated." "Let's face it," she says, "being literate today means more than reading words on a printed page and writing an essay."
...being literate also means using critical thinking skills to analyze, critique and evaluate information - essential skills in an information-abundant society.
Central to this new literacy landscape is a highly participatory culture. "The ability to learn from and collaborate with others around the world," Fisch says, "is an amazing development."
Helping teachers adapt to a more interconnected world is one of the goals of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a national group of education, business, and not-for-profit leaders that promotes integrating content mastery with critical thinking and advancing classroom use of technology.
...help students develop critical thinking skills in order to find credible information...
It's part of digital literacy, which Wikipedia defines as "the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology."
When beginning research projects, they provide a list of ten Web sites they want to use for information, ...teachers help students evaluate their sources.
...look for an author, recent dates, and extensions like .edu, .gov, or .org.
...encourages students to think about why it's meaningful [to the world]. It's not enough to know facts...students need to be problem solvers.
"Ultimately, we have a responsibility to teach our students how to communicate well, to prepare them of the future."
Instead, her students take "To Kill A Mockingbird" to the blogosphere and discuss the novel with a ninth-grade English class in IL, led by a teacher Seale met via Twitter. She also plans to have her students use Flip video cameras to record each other actions out different parts of the novel as they explore character motivation and perspective.
More and more educators, however, are discovering that is precisely digital media's limitless possibilities for collaboration, sharing, and communication that can captivate students. Thanks to user-friendly,
Web-based publication technologies, young people may be writing more than ever, for friends, family, and peers across the US and even around the world.
...creating for and sharing with someone other than the teacher.
...harness their students' enthusiasm and help them develop their raw skills.
"Kids have the passion, the technical know-how. and the creativity," says Hogue, "bur they need educators to teach them how to use digital media constructively and responsibly."
[Bill Blass says] "Most kids live in the digital world, but beyond the actual tools involved, their knowledge of how to make it work for them in the long run is pretty superficial. I know I can make these technologies help them communicate better and prepare them for life after school. That's the power of the teacher."
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