I am spending the week in Glenns, VA, at Rappahannock Community College working with a great group of teachers, most of whom will be Instructional Technology Resource Teachers for their school divisions next year. This new position was created by the Virginia Department of Education as part of the Standards of Quality and requires [...]

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Jon Udell’s very cool walking tour of Keene, NH along with directions for how to do it using various hacks and scripts created by various people. Here’s the important part, the same point that Tom Friedman makes quite a bit in The World Is Flat:
“There’s lots of stuff here to play with. Was [...]

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From Ray Schroeder: An article by Edward J. Barboni, Senior Advisor, Council of Independent Colleges, and Independent Consultant decrying the poor preparation of teachers and undergraduates in general to cope with the demand for 21st century skills has really stuck with me because it has led to a personal conflict.
On the one hand, [...]

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From Tim Stahmer, a link to an article in Technology Review about the socialization of the web. The story at the beginning of the reaction at the Wall Street Journal’s technology conference when the wireless was turned off in the lecture hall reminds me of the complaints at NECC about spotty wireless.
“Forbidding [...]

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I have piles of books everywhere but brought Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock home with me from campus. I can vaguely remember reading it in college (although that might have been The Third Wave). Somehow, I just knew it would yield interesting history. And I wasn’t wrong.
In the Introduction, Toffler discusses the difficulty [...]

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Saturday morning and I am cleaning out my Firefox Bookmarks list, deleting the temporaries (like the links to OBX hotels I used last Christmas) and getting the good ones into del.icio.us. Came upon this wired versus wireless debate from Design Share (not sure what they do). The debate took place in 1999, and [...]

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I kept claiming not to really care if the tags in the sidebar worked, but I really wanted to figure it out. So this morning I began experimenting with the htaccess file, and this FAQ from WordPress really helped. Eveytime I uploaded a blank htaccess file then went to the Options screen, wordpress [...]

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Worked on the Four Rivers Moodle site for awhile but now it’s not responding. Wasted two hours or so discovering that Audacity no longer works with my iMic and I just HAD to digitize Joni Mitchell, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter.
I started with Final Vinyl but didn’t have ny luck getting it to work. [...]

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After perusing all the menus in WordPress and missing that pesky Advanced Editing button on the Write Post page, I found help at the WordPress site. Voila! The tags worked beautifully. Of course, I’m planning on doing some re-tagging.
The Custom Fields feature also solves my other problem: I was going to [...]

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I’m still working…now I’ve learned about creating custom fields and created a field called “technorati.” Bunnys tag plugin created a field called tags.

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