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Making Resolutions, Not Wishes

Dec 31st

Posted by Chris in Articles

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The end of any­thing is always a good time for reflec­tion, and the end of a year is the most obvi­ous time for these con­sid­er­a­tions. Every year I set goals in my per­sonal life, some I am able to meet, many I am not (mainly those asso­ci­ated with my expand­ing waist line). Curi­ously enough this is not a tra­di­tion that I have kept in my pro­fes­sional life. Per­haps this is because the school year does not change with the cal­en­dar year, maybe it is because we are asked to reflect for­mally in our annual per­for­mance review. But this year, in con­junc­tion with my teach­ing twe­nais­sance its time to More >

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How to Have a Nearly Synchronous Discussion With Your WP Blog

Nov 20th

Posted by Chris in Articles

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I have dis­cov­ered some neat ways to use a blog in a class­room and I thought I would share them with you here. Using a few plu­g­ins you can facil­i­tate a pretty engag­ing online con­ver­sa­tion with your stu­dents while still main­tain­ing a rea­son­able level of secu­rity. I use this tech­nique to dis­cuss lit­er­a­ture that I assign to stu­dents, but I could be applied to any topic.

Step 1: Tech­ni­cal Preparation

You will need to have a com­puter for every stu­dent as well as one for your­self, you can either use a 1 to 1 lap­top set up or a tra­di­tional com­puter lab.

You will need to have a Word­press self-hosted blog set up (I sup­pose you could use Wordpress.com or More >

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How to Set Up a Classroom Site With Wordpress

Nov 1st

Posted by Chris in Articles

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I am surely open­ing myself up to ridicule a lit­tle for this one, but I have recently had a few peo­ple ask me how I cre­ated my class­room site. My school pur­chased a web host­ing pack­age from School­Cen­ter which is a web-based design soft­ware that I hate. It quickly became inad­e­quate for my needs and is becom­ing inad­e­quate for my col­leagues. Word­press to the res­cue. I won’t waste time here espous­ing the great­ness of the plat­form, just know that it is great.

Note: This arti­cle is intended for a self-hosted Word­press instal­la­tion and takes for granted that you already have a web-host and have installed Word­press. If you haven’t, look here.

1. Theme

When set­ting up a Word­press instal­la­tion More >

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