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Category Archives: small pieces

Building a school website one blog at a time

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

I’ve just posted at my work blog about a project to create a new school announcements system that will be powered by WordPress. I wanted to put some notes up here about how it works, and hopefully get some feedback. I also have some ideas about how this could grow – again, feedback would be [...]

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Stephen's Glu

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

I have played around some with SuprGlu, a web service that allows you to take some RSS feeds and munge them all together in one blog-like page (I have an example that pulls together the web sites for various members of the EdTech Posse). Never content with the web services where the code is locked [...]

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Dean Shareski presents on RSS

Friday, November 18, 2005

I was going to title this Dean kicks educators in the RSS, but reconsidered. But seriously, Dean Shareski just gave a great session on RSS. I think the trick that he hit onto, besides a great intro with a thoroughly engaging presenation (which proved that Powerpoint does not have to be considered a tool to [...]

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SACE conference – Stephen Downes keynote

Friday, November 18, 2005

I’m at SACE in Regina. Lots of great people are here – Alec and Dean from the posse are here, Heather is here. Lots of very thoughtful educators who should be bloggers are also here. The first time I attended one of Stephen’s presentations was when I started blogging, so maybe this will give some [...]

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Post-mortem to DIY eLearning systems

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Back in mid August I gave a brief presentation on DIY eLearning systems, and amongst the many helpful and provocative comments Leigh Blackall got down to business: Tell us how it went then? Where to from here? OK, Leigh – its a bit late, but here’s my report. The first part is easier to answer. [...]

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