http://gbbert.com/babble just a place to babble (photo by B Bertoia:Big Budha Koh Samui) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:14:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have not posted much in a while so I thought I would do two things. First I wanted to see if posting from a google doc had changed from the last time I did it and second we have finally completed a fun, well I thought it was fun, project ... http://gbbert.com/babble/326 I used to have students blog using one Wordpress install. I would then create student accounts on the site so they could add blog posts to it. This year, with a move to a new school, I thought I would try to change the way I did things. I signed ... http://gbbert.com/babble/adding-the-sudent-blogs In on the preview version and it just seems a lot more solid. It was dead simple to create a lifestream. I was surprised at how it could bring everything together into one simple timeline. We will be using it soon with the kids as they study Ancient Egypt, will ... http://gbbert.com/babble/visiting-dipity-once-again I was having some difficulty aggregating all of the kids different Edublog feeds, I have about 80 kids that are trying out blogging for the first time. I used a google form to get all of the information I would need from each student.   Loading... With the data I then added some ... http://gbbert.com/babble/using-a-gform-to-collect-urls Remember playing with Muxtapes a while back. Wondered how they could post the music the way they did? I guess Muxtapes had some difficulties but into the void comes 8tracks. This 8track is a few songs loosely organized around Mark Knopfler. http://gbbert.com/babble/8tracks From a tweet sent to @jepcke I read about wordle. So I took my kids reflection on what they learned this week and created a wordle image. I uploaded the image to Flickr using Jing. I then went and imported the images into Animoto from Flickr and on to my ... http://gbbert.com/babble/another-tweet Image via Wikipedia View: floor level...me on carpet (our shipment made it)...repeat of the Wigam V Chelsea game on TV...dog on carpet...cat running in front of us...weird looking indoor pond in the background. Will look better soon but I will not post any pics for a while. Dad,...... this sucks. The ... http://gbbert.com/babble/online-textbooks Another interesting timeline tool also includes a list, flipbook and map view. Very easy to import my wordpress blog posts, twitter and Last Fm information and embed into this blog post. Might be an interesting way to aggregate kid's edublogs post? Anyhow something to play with. http://gbbert.com/babble/dipity-looks-interesting Video export from Voicethread to Viddler to Vodpod and embedded into a wordpress page. Kind of a cool way to display kids work. The embedded voicethread looks better than the videos but I need to make room on my ed.voicethread account for next semester. (Video Wall) http://gbbert.com/babble/video-wall Been having some fun playing with Sproutbuilder. They have added new capabilities that I like. In particular a history that allows me to more easily undo the many mistakes I make. My design capabilities, obviously need some help, but you can create great widgets that mash together all sorts ... http://gbbert.com/babble/making-widgets