[MACEP] Slumbertech?

[Paul Monheimer]

Macepers,
As the potential host for the upcoming SlumberTech, we're sorry to hear 
the May date won't work.  I'll check with the IT group to see about the 
June date.  I am unavailable as I will be out of town Friday night.  
Perhaps we should nail down our topic as we look to gather.  Catlin 
Gabel is happy to offer space and resources, but it would help if we 
knew a bit more about specific needs folks had.  Sooo....as you think 
about your contribution, please let us know what types of equipment 
needs, space needs, server needs, laptop connections, etc. you have.  
For example, if your presentation is stored on a photoiPod or flash 
drive, and all you need is a laptop and projector, let us know.  If you 
need web access from your laptop, etc....You all get the idea.
Thanks,
Paul Monheimer
World Cultures Teacher
The Catlin Gabel School
8825 SW Barnes Road
Portland, OR   97225
v-503-203-5103
f-503-203-5119
m-503-708-4567

On Apr 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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