First we need to change a setting in your blog to make the audio player appear. This is a one time change. After you have done this once you’ll never have to do it again!
1. Go to Settings - Audio Player
2. Uncheck the first box and check the third box
3. Save the...
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Many teachers use iPhoto to store and organize pictures here at school. A great feature of iPhoto is the ability to batch export an album or folder of pictures and reduce the size at the same time. This is great if you have some pictures you took for of kids and you want them to be...
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With a lot of VoiceThreads being created it’s a great and easy way to have students make digital stories. Even better is how easy it is to embed the VoiceThreads right on a student’s blog or a teacher’s website.
You can embed a VoiceThread without making it public. But unless other people have a VoiceThread...
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One of the first things I do with any blog is add a map to track visitors to my blog. There are some pretty cool free maps out there, but last week thanks to Mr. Jessee I found a new one that I think is worth sharing.
It’s called Revolver Map and it’s a 3D...
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At ISB students blog at the domain: http://blogs.isb.ac.th. This is also where the High School hosts its Week Without Walls course blogs.
Here are some tutorial videos to get people started with working in this Wordpress environment.
Logging In
How does it all look and how do I change the theme?
How do I write a post?
How do...
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Often we need to share presentations (typically powerpoint) online with students. Beyond linking to a file in PantherNet, it is often useful to upload a slideshow and then add audio to it. Slideshare is a great site for this.
For this and other options, watch this video:
Share This
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Netvibes.com has been my aggregator of choice for years now. So much so that thinking of changing to another platform at this point makes my head spin. I’ve tried Pageflakes.com for a time and even Google Reader/ iGoogle. To each their own and I’m obviously a netvibes guy. Last summer I wrote a post...
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As the end of the year approaches, it is a good idea to back up your course in PantherNet. We will be doing this on the server end as well, but for peace of mind you should have a locally stored copy on your own hard drive too. You’ve put a lot of work...
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As your iTunes library gets larger and larger with more songs and videos, you may find that your computer is getting pretty full. This is particularly applicable if your computer is a couple of years old and its hard drive is not as roomy as they come now.
Here’s a great video from cNET explaining...
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The videos embedded below were intended to help HS teachers in their work with the WordPress blogs of InsideISB for Week without Walls. While the instructions deal specifically with that framework, the how to’s are applicable to any work on a WordPress blog. For that reason, they’ve been included here:
1. Logging into InsideISB for...
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