03.15.07

I’m sorry that I couldn’t be there to help you out in person (especially because I love teaching on my birthday), but I did want to tell you how to post from writetomyblog.com:

•  Click on Manage Posts
• Choose Wordpress (not Wordpress.com) as your Blog Service.
• Enter in your blog web address with “xmlrpc.php” at the end:
  • Example: http://bhwilkoff.learnerblogs.org/xmlrpc.php
• Enter your Username and Password that gives this site temporary access to your blog.
• Click Manage Posts
• Choose your blog and Click Manage Posts again

From here you can either decide to edit one of your posts, or you can click close and write a new post.

• You can then click publish in order to send whatever you have typed to your blog.
• It will ask you if you want to publish it to the same blog that you set up before. Click publish again.
• You can then categorize it if you want or just click publish for a third time.

You have done it! Pat yourself on the back.

03.14.07

Cores 1-2:

1. Discuss-on: What is Remix Culture?
   
2. Watch the Remix Culture in Generation Y video and discuss:
   • What is okay to copy?
   • What isn’t?
   • What is a remix?
   • What is a parody?
   • Who owns an idea?

Cores 3-4:

• I have just been selected to be a part of the Digital Educator program for 2007-2010. What this means is that I will mentoring other teachers in the the use of technology in classroom. Right up my alley, wouldn’t you say?
  • The best part, though, is that I get to build a technology toolkit to use in my classroom, and they have given me some really tempting choices. I would like you to help me to pick out what I should get because you are going to be using this stuff too.
  • The toolkit is based on a point system (1 point=about $100). I have 30 points to play with, but I have to get a 13 point laptop, so really I only have 17 points to work with. Please select the items accordingly and give a compelling reason for each choice. Write down what you want to use this item for next year. I will select from your proposals, and hopefully you will have had the best reasons for your choices. Time to check out the great stuff we can have.