Apple has a really nice set of video tutorials on using Leopard. They’re great on their own as tutorials, but also great examples of how to make a helpful, simple, instructional presentation.

For folks who take our iWeb class, or those who just are curious, I’ve created a new document on our wiki that has some guidelines for publishing content on our web server.

This applies to any files you may place on our web server outside the realm of the blog. This might include an iWeb site, or large multimedia files that cannot be uploaded to the blogging server.

A lot of planning goes into providing professional development sessions. You may disagree, but I feel that the variety and quality of what we have offered over the years is first-in-class, especially when I talk to educators in other school divisions throughout Virginia.

I see a trend developing here, and I wanted to take a few words to ask for your cooperation. I often have to search for instructors or commit to time myself to teach these classes. We are changing our after school schedules to make these classes work.

When you sign-up on our wiki, we count that as a commitment. I use this intent of commitment to decide if the class will “make” or not days ahead of time.

If you have to cancel from this commitment, please remove your name from the class list on the wiki as soon as possible. Letting us know the day of the class or just not showing up to the class impacts those who do want to participate. It means fewer classes can be offered and served. It also impacts the quality of the class.

We know emergencies can arise. I ask that you plan ahead, consider these classes on your calendars, and if a conflict arises, please remove your name, or reschedule to another time as soon as you can.

I thank you in advance!

Might I recommend another teacher’s blog for inspiration? Sure!

I really like the passion that comes through in a trio of social studies blogs I recently found. I’m linking to World History, but you’ll find there links to US History and US Government.

This is the place I’d want to go for new resources, insight, and just taking-in some of the experiences of someone else who teaches my subject area. But wait… we’re putting a lot of homework, etc., in our blogs.

Your blog is what you make of it. Some of us love to share and create and make content available. Others like to borrow, be inspired, etc. But if there was one area we could improve in, as a school division when it comes to blogging, is to not only blog for our parents, but one another in the profession.

I am going to talk about this (again) this year at EdTech in February at Randolph-Macon College. Check out the version I did this summer for ITRTs.