I haven’t had time to do a lot of blog reading lately, hence the 900 unread feeds on my netvibes page….ug. I have however been playing with a couple of new tools…well, new to me anyway. I don’t get twitter. Really I don’t. My wife just keeps saying “This is so stupid” which pretty much sums it up. But for […]
A teacher at our high school is running a Poetry Competition. The students post their poems on a blog for all to read. If you have some time with your High School class, it might be a nice assignment to read and respond to some of the blogs there. I’ve read a couple of them and some are very well […]
China to expand ‘Great Internet Firewall’ AFP March 13, 2007 BEIJING — China will tighten controls on Internet blogs and Webcasts in a response to new technologies that have allowed cyber citizens to avoid government censorship efforts, state press reported Tuesday. [tags]China, Firewall[/tags] Technorati Tags: China, Great Firewall, Firewall
I posted awhile back about moving our learning site to a dedicated server. Well the paper work should be in later this week and next week I should be able to start migrating the site…depending on how fast I can learn how to mange a Linux server..which I’ve never done before. I feel a steep unlearn relearn curve ahead. I’ve […]
You hear all the time about how fast Shanghai is growing, and how fast they are/can build stuff in this country. Well here is a great example. They broke ground on our new high school sometime early January when we were away on Winter holiday. The school will be finished in August when students arrive. That’s 8 months to build […]
You know when you’ve been Geek!ed! when listening to a podcast becomes workout music! It’s sad really I know. But it makes 30 minutes on the treadmill fly by! I’m a couple episodes behind right now, which isn’t a bad thing because I can listen to a Geek!ed! podcast both days I run. This week I was listening to episode […]
Reece left a comment the other day that I thought I’d try and answer. I’m also wondering which “subject area teachers†are using blogs other than in English since blogging is primarily writing. Well let’s see…after a quick look at our school’s blog site here’s what I found: Pudong 4th Grade Blog (A group blog written by all our 4th […]
So what happens when you put 1200+ Moodle Users in 88 courses and 560+ WordPress blogs all on the same shared hosting server? You exceed your CPU usage. We have been getting this warning for a couple of months now, but as we continue to add more blogs and users in Moodle, it’s happening more frequently. Yesterday I was trying […]
On my posting the other day about our school setting up a YouTube account Jeff Dungan left the following comment: …any tips you can give me to take to my administration/board since they are not receptive to the idea of allowing this to be unblocked/used at our school? Anything that you can offer in terms of support for our argument […]
The EARCOS Teachers conference (East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools) that I will be presenting at later this month now has a hitchhikr page. The tag for the conference will be earcos07. If you are planing on going and will be blogging the conference please use this tag. I’ve also e-mailed EARCOS to see if they will add this […]