[MACEP] Slumbertech?

[JeanineDuBois]

The date sounds good for the SlumberTech, Paul.

I've got a lot going on right now, so I'm holding off saying I'll  
definitely attend, but my first inclination is that I would like to.

Best to all!

--Jeanine DuBois

On Saturday, April 30, 2005, at 10:10  PM, Paul Nelson wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> Well the response to our suggested SlumberTech was underwhelming.
>
> I am ever hopeful though. Perhaps if you saw some of the cool web  
> applications out there and how they might be used in schools... Did I  
> mention that these are free?
>
> We're experimenting with blogging software for our school newspaper  
> this term. Take a peek at our daily photo section and then head on  
> over to read some of the articles.
> http://hs.riverdale.k12.or.us/maverick/?q=taxonomy/term/7
>
> Note that these kids are brand new to journalism and we're learning as  
> we go. It's interesting to me to see that they expect a story on the  
> on-line newspaper to be super short, really more of an announcement.  
> We're working on how to pull together enough information for some  
> feature stories in the next few weeks.
>
> Our mock trial team used an on-line content management system called  
> Mambo [ http://mambo.org ] to work on our scripts with our attorney  
> coaches. It's pretty cool and hey, we won state so it must have > worked!
> I turned on access to some of our questions so you can see what it's  
> like.
>
> http://hs.riverdale.k12.or.us/mambo
>
> Follow the Mock Trial Silver link to see some questions. You won't be  
> able to edit any like the kids can because you don't have a password.  
> If you did though, you could use the on-line word processor to make  
> changes to the document right in your browser.
>
> The Nationals questions and other sites are password restricted. We  
> leave next week to compete at Mock Trial Nationals in Charlotte, NC. I  
> don't want any of the teams from other states snooping around our site  
> and stealing our best questions so you'll have to wait until we come  
> back to see those.
>
> http://oregonphotoblog.org is powered by a free web package called  
> Gallery. It's very easy to use.  Take a look at photography by  
> Riverdale High, Century High, Mark Peterson and Eric Harrison, just a  
> few of the galleries you'll find there.
>
> My own web site at http://pnelson.us uses Drupal [http://drupal.org]  
> This is actually the same software we're using to run our on-line  
> school newspaper but I've configured it with a different "skin".   
> Don't you want to go see what I'm writing about in my blog? ;-^)
>
> All of this software is free. It's easy to setup and non-tech type  
> folks can add content. That's probably the best part.
>
> If you're interested in learning how to do this, you won't have to pay  
> hundreds of $$$ or buy expensive software. You just have to reply to  
> the list and let us know that you want to have a SlumberTech.
>
> SlumberTechs are not events that you simply attend. They are events  
> you create with your own interest, contributions and energy. I'm  
> moving my suggested date back to June 3-4. So what do you think?
>
> We have some server capacity that we can provide for education related  
> projects. You can actually start your own web based project! So far  
> though only Allan and Ira have expressed interest. How about the rest  
> of you out there in lurker land?
>
> ;-) Paul
>
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