TRLD Conference

I was fortunate enough to get to attend the TRLD (Technology, Reading, and Learning Difficulties) conference in San Francisco again this year. Once again, it was a great experience. My only complaint was that I didn’t get to have dinner with Chris and John. That was such an added bonus last year! I did make a silent toast to them as I enjoyed my “Chop Chop” salad one evening. The other downside of attending this conference is that I will be unable to attend NECC this year. Some choices are tough but the type of
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UbD Educators: Suggestions?

I have mentioned before that the UbD Educators wiki has grown quiet.  I think there may be two reasons for this:

We’re all busy educators who have difficulty finding the time to create, post, and/or comment on others’ posted UbD units.We’re not getting what we need out of the wiki.

It’s not in my power to alleviate the first problem, and believe me, I hear you there.  However, the second problem is much easier to address.  The wiki is only as good as we make it.  If you need a feature that the wiki doesn’t have, add it.  If you have trouble keeping up with new pages and discussions, try subscribing to the site’s various RSS feeds (you can keep up with all changes or just changes to one page).  If you want to make a change, but you aren’t sure, ask the wiki members about it on the Suggestions page.  the majority of the wiki’s members have not yet contributed either unit plans or discussions.  I want to hear your voice!  I don’t mind lurkers, but we have the potential to make this wiki a huge repository of ideas and discussion about UbD, and we can only do that through teacher contributions.

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Podcast Show 11 - Loudblog

Loudblog is a content management system for publishing media files on the web. It does not claim to handle all your blogging needs, but in fact specializes in media files of many different flavors. In this podcast I walk through the wonderfully easy install (web-based) and some possible uses for this software. It is fully open-source and I really liked it.

It claims to integrate with Wordpress, but I have not tried that as of yet. I am currently using podpress to handle my podcasting needs, and have found it to be robust, but I will investigate this further just for kicks.

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