Why in the World Would I Want a Blog?

Making Web Pages is a PainI’m frequently asked for an easy way for teachers to create web sites and keep them up-to-date. In the past, I’ve tried a number of approaches with teachers. I started with writing html code by hand using a simple text editor. It’s really not very difficult to make web pages [...]

Posted on December 31st, 2005 by John Schinker
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Free Audio Books Online

LibriVox is a volunteer initative to create audio versions of literature classics. People volunteer to record chapters or books, and then submit these recordings so others may download and listen to them. To avoid copyright problems, they only accept work that’s in the public domain. For the most part, that means books published before 1923. [...]

Posted on December 29th, 2005 by John Schinker
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WordPress is finally working

It looks like I finally have WordPress working correctly with multiple users. I’ve also written a script that will make it easier to create new sites for staff members. This project is going to allow me to get information out quickly and easily, while still testing and playing with the tool.Right now, it’s pretty easy [...]

Posted on December 28th, 2005 by John Schinker
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