cerebral odd jobs

Draft list of most useful tags in the http://edublogs.org/forums/ The forums are for discussing support issues related to all the edublogses family.
The list below isn’t intended at the moment as a classification or thesaurus of terms. The new tag clouds in the forums will help locate information, but the existing tags lack consistency (and lack [...]

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2007-03-01 revised
Blogging and the Internet, like computers over the past 60 years*, can be extremely useful for some things. But they are mostly famous for doing exactly what we say and not what we mean.
To avoid overdosing on frustration, follow these steps.
As the cover of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy states–

Don’t Panic

(written in large, [...]

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This is a placeholder entry, to be modified, about the need for Internet and computer literacy /numeracy /
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/13/teacher_faces_40_yea.html
teachers at this school were prohibited by policy from turning off school computers, which would answer the “why didn’t she just shut down the PC?” questions. Amero testified that she told four other teachers and the school’s [...]

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//engtech - engtech.wordpress.com/ just created a nifty script for WordPress.com which squeezes all the caught Akismet spam to just a few lines for easy scan for false positives and no need to read the actual cr*p
Discussion is here
lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/ akismet-auntie-spam-firefox-greasemonkey-page-viewing-script/

The script is here
engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/akismet-auntie-spam/
[Title makes more sense if your aunt is an ant]

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//engtech has another greasemonkey script for assisting edubloggers and others. He also gives instructions for modifying the script to fit your own wordpress blog.
“Find Wide Images is a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox. I use it to find images that are too big and would “break” fixed width blog themes.
What it does
* [...]

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