Category Archives: Technology

Just saying Hello 2.6

Just seeing if the newest WP 2.6 is playing nice with Safari 3.1.2.
“That’s not too much to ask for, eh?”
And like someone had mention on Twitter, it looks like the media bar is working fine. 
In older posts on this site, the visual editor looked right, but when you save and viewed the post, all breaks [...]

Safari and WP 2.5 finally in step

Not crippling or llfe-threatening, but the inability of Safari to play nice with WordPress’ visual editor has been, at best, annoying. The last major release of Safari said that all things with visual editors were to be fixed, but that didn’t take. And, I’m not sure who to blame or praise today, but the issue [...]

Just making a quick post to the blog

I’m checking to make sure that OPML editor can connect to a non WordPress.com WP blog. I was playing around with MarsEdit today and I got to thinking that I type better via outliner than straight textwindow. Anyway, this post is really for me, but if you enjoy it, leave a comment, eh?
And it does. [...]

So this is Christmas

Just testing out something that I read on Days of our Lives blog on “How to write a post on Wordpress using Safari 3.0.4 - without screwing up text formatting.”
The idea is to turn off the “Use visual editor” under “My Profile.” So what if you get the “ugly” editor…it works now, eh?
And, that’s [...]

Trying Thunderbird again…

And I blame it on @rherdman for suggesting that I give it another try and I, once again, remember why I didn’t decide on using Thunderbird: importing address contacts.
I know it’s not that big of a deal, but it is. I use GMail and since my defection from .Mac mail, I’ve used Google’s mail service [...]

One year Twittering

One year ago, I stumbled upon Twitter.com via a news feed and since then, I have made 5,493 tweets. Not sure if that’s something to put on a resume, but it has been sometimes useful in keeping in contact with people. Anyway, thanks to folk that keep the twits acomin’.

“Those Who Can’t, Moodle: Avoiding the ‘Napoleon Plan’ for Technology in the Classroom”

These are blogged notes from my rough draft idea blog (http://blogs.opml.org/chrisjudson) that I used to present a concurrent session at the 2008 Indiana Computer Educator conference last week. Here’s the abstract:

Most of the successful transitions to moving instruction toward technology suggests a shift in pedagogy. Many times, incorporating technology into the classroom has amounted to the “Napoleon Plan” of decision making . Instead of merely putting up a static .html page with class rules, an assignment schedule, and perhaps some online quizzes, the effective online classroom makes use of the social aspect of the internet and structure and some would suggest moving toward a social constructivist approach to pedagogy.