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What happened to the June archives?
July 17th, 2007

I have just observed that the June archives have disappeared from the links… where are they? i will republish the entire blog…

Wikis established for Year 11
July 17th, 2007

I set up Wiki accounts for 24 students last night. We worked in one of the computer labs where they accessed the invitation I had sent them via email. [Five of the computers did not work so five of the students had to complete the task in the library]. They opened the wiki online application, created a username and password and linked up to their wiki page. Each student can access their wiki and edit it as they wish. They shall work on their Year Eleven Ancient History Investigation within the wiki. I can keep tabs on their progress this way.

Year Eleven Ancient History Wiki
July 16th, 2007

Set up a couple of Wikis tonight. One in particular for Year Eleven Ancient History. Set up accounts for the class. Tomorrow I plan to take the class through the Wiki project that ties in their Historical Investigation.

Blogger template fights with Firefox
July 16th, 2007

The template for this blog has elements from my own web page and material from the original blogger template.

I removed the blogger menu bar at the top and this seems to create the weird spacing, among other things. As well, the page looks fine in Safari but it looks crap in Firefox when it downloads.

I will need to do more work on it. The style sheet is a little complex. Well, keeps me busy.

Site updates and Twitter…
July 15th, 2007

Tonight I updated the home page and added some more links to the Web 2.0 workshop pages. I also installed a dsahboard widget for Twitter. This will allow me to post messages to the Twitter announcements on my blog as well as to the Jaiku badge on my home page. Neat. I will gradually let my classes know so that they can be informed about wiki updates, etc.