The Old Blog Meister   David's Domain My office is small, cluttered, and always full of music of different flavors. There are always at least three different projects open and active as I quickly move from idea to idea. It's the way I work. I will be posting information about BlogMeister here including operational and instructional applications ideas. I will especially be responding to ideas posted to me by BlogMeister users.   by David Warlick Related Links • Landmarks for Schools • Wikipedia • My Outside Blog • My Professional Web Site • Podcastalley • Bloglines • Podcast May 2005 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 April 2005 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Titles 5/1 New Temporary Location 4/28 Troubled Times 4/21 Time for a Vacation -- A New Book 4/6 Word Mapping 4/5 Site Down & Out 3/29 Adding Images to your Blogs 3/23 Practice Student Accounts 3/20 Another Sunday Article CM 3/13 New Blog Listing Feature 3/9 A New Blog A 3/9 My First Blog A 3/8 New Dev Site 3/3 All about Today CM 3/1 A Few Changes 2/23 Site Down... 2/21 It's President's Day 2/15 The Big Tail 2/13 A test Article AA 2/13 A Working Weekend 2/10 Workin' Away 2/9 Spamming Headaches 2/8 Comment Spammers 2/4 RSS Comes to Teacher Accounts 2/3 Problems with Comments 1/21 Student Name Security 1/17 New Login Procedure 1/8 Teacher Bloggers & Education Arts 12/22 Featured Articles 12/17 What is a Blog 12/13 My first Blog Article AS 12/7 Aerospace Explorations CM 12/5 Ha Cha Cha... CM 11/26 My World Today! CM   Today is May 8, 2005 Student Name Security I received an excellent question from a Blogmeister user yesterday that I have jumped right into addressing. Sadly, we live in a world that is dangerous. We must protect our children when they are out in that world, and even when they venture into the digital networks (cyberspace) with their ideas. One way to do that is to attempt to avoid as many connections between the student's virtual personal and their physical world person. One way of doing that is to give your students a psuedonym, rather than their real name when you set up their accounts. In fact, it might be a good idea for me to add a new field to the accounts database with room for a psuedonym and the real name. However, the user who e-mailed me suggested that it might be helpful to display students initials, or their first name and the initial of their Go to Blogmeister Login with your name or e-mail address and password Click "Class Panel" last name. So that is what I did. Now, when you go to your "Class Panel", you will have the opportunity to determine how your student's names will appear on yours and their blog pages. The options are: Full Name First Name & Last Initial First & Last Initials You will also notice the addition of a Classroom Password. This is not fully functional yet, but it will enable your students to be able to see, and comment on other students blog articles before they are published to the Web. I have received several requests for students to be able to peer review each others writings, so that is the reason for a class password. More later. Keep on blogging. dfw Comments The IP address of your computer is 209.237.238.173 -- ;-) Name: Your comment will be delivered to the teacher, , for approval. When it has been approved, the comment will be added to David Warlick's blog. Thank you! E-mail: Enter the word to the right: My Students Abigail Absentee Absence Simon Amanda Clovis Muddybluster Connie Constance Inglesneed Suppertini Julie Sidney Smivaletti About the Blogger: David Warlick is a 30 year educator and pioneer in using computers and networked information to reform teaching and learning in the K-12 Environment. Login Copyright (c) 2005 by David Warlick BlogMeister