BBHCSD-WordPress Getting Started Guide
Last updated 1 March 2007
Introduction
Wordpress is a blog package that makes it easy for teachers to communicate online with parents, students, colleagues, and community members. It allows them to have a presence on the web without learning a lot about creating and managing web sites. Teachers who want to have a professional-looking [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2007 by John Schinker
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Last week, I mentioned that the world produced an estimated 1.5 exabytes of information last year. This statistic came from Karl Fisch’s Did You Know? presentation. He got this number from an Ian Jukes presentation, and Ian’s source is a Berkeley study from 2003. As it turns out, the Berkeley study later revised its numbers [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2007 by John Schinker
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In 1984, Richard Saul Wurman collected some of the brightest stars in Technology, Entertainment, and Design for a conference in Monterey, California. The Macintosh computer was introduced at that conference. So was Sony’s new method for storing and distributing audio: the compact disc. Benoit Mandebrot explained how he uses fractal geometry to map coastlines.
Six years [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2007 by John Schinker
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Nothing to see here. Move along….
Daddy Loves Ohio
Posted on March 1st, 2007 by John Schinker
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Your hard drive just crashed. This is the last text you’re going to see on your computer. Right now. Are you okay with that?
I know. This is a bad time. You have a lot going on today, and you have to have your computer. That project you’ve been working on for the last few weeks [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2007 by John Schinker
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