IdeaNotes
A place to brainstorm ideas for our blog…..
Our blog is a place for creativity. IdeaNotes is like playing in a sandbox. Got an idea for our blog? This is the place to offer ideas, play with them, and see where they might lead. This is the place to input ideas as a precursor to making them happen.
Got a suggestion for a post or a page? This is the place to make it.
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Entries (RSS)
December 9th, 2009 at 10:16 am
I’d like to use the Technology page as a place for the “Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology.” This is an explanation of the Standards for Technology. Each standard could include pictures of activities and projects we’ve done in class that relate to that standard.
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December 9th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I’d like to have a page that delineates the key concepts and skills yearbook students should know and be able to do.
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December 9th, 2009 at 10:28 am
I want to figure out how to embed a .swf file in a blog page. I want to be able to display Flash projects such as game programming in the “About” page.
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December 9th, 2009 at 10:31 am
We should create our own headers that randomly rotate. The headers would consist of backgrounds students have designed in Photoshop and could feature electronic and scanned images that students have created. I think this blog allows you at least seven different images, perhaps more can be added. The header itself would be a showcase of the talent we have here at Omni.
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Mr. Goldstein Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Can a student created video, posted to the vodcast server, be embedded in the header?
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December 9th, 2009 at 10:52 am
How about a collaboration page with subpages. These could be collaborations with various teachers/subjects: Band, Drama, Family and Consumer Science, Business, P.E. Reading, Clubs, Sports, PTSA, Reflections, Art, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies…..
This would harmonize very nicely with our yearbook efforts to take pictures and portray a year at Omni…..
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December 10th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Need to start seeding collaborative pages. Post pictures and content as an invitation to other teachers to start participating in this project and collaborating, giving them an opportunity to showcase what’s happening in their own classrooms and projects.
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December 10th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Start playing around with QuickWrites about various topics on creating and creativity.
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December 11th, 2009 at 6:47 am
This is the place to let the thoughts flow out….I want to create posts on topics, but not necessarily have them on the blog on the home page, until I’m ready to work with it with the students…want to wait until it’s contextually appropriate…yet I want to be developing them now….Perhaps do these on a Page or Pages (either already existing or create them).
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December 11th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Question: How do I upload a large quantities of photos to a page without having to upload and handle them one by one? Handling them one by one is very time consuming and becomes tedious for large quantities of photos. There’s a Photo Album feature that I tried, but I couldn’t get it to work.
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December 12th, 2009 at 4:34 am
I’d still like to learn how to use Joomla to extend what we are able to post and how we can post it. That’s another project to play around with on the side.
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December 12th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Future blog topics on creativity:
Painting process
Creating music, Creating Digital Music
Freewriting
Developing your writing
The creative process
Famous creators/artists/inventors and their creative process
Inventing
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December 13th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Testing the posting of a .pdf file in comments….
Sketchbook-Sept,Oct2008_opitimized.pdf
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Mr. Goldstein Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Can’t copy and past a .pdf file into a comments box. Have to post separately using my log in, and then link, which is very labor intensive for me…..
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Mr. Goldstein Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Posting .pdf file to media library and linking here. Let’s see if it works…
Won’t let me link…..
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Mr. Goldstein Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Let’s try again….this time hand typing in URL to .pdf upload in library….
http://weblogs.pbspaces.com/mrgoldstein/files/2009/12/sketchbook-SeptOct2008_optimized.pdf
December 13th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Can’t get it to work…The other way is to upload sketchbook files to vodcast server as a .mov file through iMovie and link it that way….very time consuming….
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December 13th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Another way is to create a special page for sketchbook posts and link to page from comments section…..
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December 15th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Create a central data base for signed Consent to Publish forms collected through the school registration process. These should be entered into an Excel spreadsheet that can be sorted by various criteria (alphabetically and by grade). Share these on the network so teachers and I have access to them.
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December 16th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Over vacation, work on mastering Photoshop. I am particularly interested in character creation–painting with Photoshop and making it look lifelike. Also explore type ideas and background effects. Create tutorials integrating Photoshop and InDesign.
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December 16th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Ended up posting sketchbooks not in .pdf format but in video format. Posted to vodcast server and linked in comments section with embed code to accompany each students comment/response to sketchbook post. I like being able to see the image, rather than having to click on a link to first see the image–much more direct and powerful.
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December 16th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Working on compiling schoolwide consent to publish forms, culled from registration documents from the beginning of the year.
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December 16th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Can a student post a picture by copying and pasting it into the comments box?
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January 10th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Working on installing a content management system, Concrete 5, to the FIRN web hosting server. Hoping that it’s easier to learn than Joomla. Got everything configured. Need to post it to the server; the web server is currently down.
Can student have a certain level of privileges to edit/post content to web pages (a privilege that would allow them a certain level of access to the editing functions, but not allow them to post–it needs to be moderated.
Also looking at another content management system, Drupal. This allows multi-users to access and edit the web pages, which I like. You can assign a certain level of privilege (access) to each user.
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April 10th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Technology activities:
Classroom Blog
Vodcast Server
Linking/Embedding to Edline
AuthorStream
ShareSwf
Glogster
iMovie
Apple Computers
Video Cameras
iStopMotion
GarageBand
Engineering activities:
Paper Tower
Platform
PowerPoint
Digital Portfolios
Claymation
Flash
Scratch
Game Programming
Video Production
Animation
Flipbooks
Writing
Reflections
The Design Process
WordPress
Every page a blog
Ebooks
Invention
Invention videos
Invention poster
Timeline of Technology
[Prezi]
Drawing
Structures
Flight
Transportation
Manufacturing
[Biotechnology]
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