Dec 6th, 2008
by pollyalida.
I’m looking forward to meeting with 20 teachers at the Ft. Plain (NY) Central School on Saturday Dec 6. At 8 am! On a Saturday! Wow, you guys are dedicated souls. This is going to be a 2.0 “tech camp” training day. We’ll be covering social bookmarking with delicious.com. We’ll use iGoogle to create a [...]
Nov 1st, 2008
by pollyalida.
Thanks to everyone who attended the School Library System Tech Camp today at Cap Region BOCES. Hope you all had as good a time as I did! I’ll try to get the powerpoint slides from the early part of the day posted to the class wiki on Sunday or Monday. As always, many thanks to [...]
Oct 29th, 2008
by pollyalida.
Testing out some new themes this week. Comparing how they work here in a single user install of WordPress and the multiuser version, WordPress MU. In a couple of weeks, I’ll be teaching a class on using WordPress to create a library web site. To give everyone their own blog to work on during the [...]
Oct 16th, 2008
by pollyalida.
This tutorial from SEOish on How to Make Google Gadgets usesĀ google gadgets to teach about making google gadgets. Love the video next to the gadget editor. Clever and effective.
Oct 7th, 2008
by pollyalida.
The Connecticut State Library launched 2.0@CSL last week, a 23 things Learning 2.0 project for State Library staff. Kris Abery, Sharon Clapp and Nancy Peluso were the masterminds behind the project and have done a terrific job putting this program together. The project will run for 13 weeks and is using a wiki as it’s [...]
Sep 30th, 2008
by pollyalida.
This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of teaching a workshop for school librarians in the Dutchess & Ulster BOCES School Library Systems. 14 librarians gave up the weekend to be locked away in a training room! We had some great discussions about technology and schools. And everyone went away having learned about some [...]